- •Places of Interest in Great Britain
- •Outstanding Events from the History of America
- •Including members of the armed forces, the Executive Branch employs more than 4 million Americans.
- •Climate in the usa
- •In the south-eastern corner of the country the climate is mild and spring is like winter, but in summer the temperature may be very high.
- •Christmas in Great Britain
- •Islands located northeast of New Zealand. The country was
- •In some of them, small settlements are linked by good roads.
- •Traditional American Food
- •Is very convenient but not very healthy.However there are some principles of American cuisine
- •The Land of Blue Mountains
- •It's a beautiful place, with parks, lakes, big open streets and fine buildings.Australia is sometimes called "the lucky country". One
- •Is Commonwealth of Australia.
- •Political System of Great Britain (2)
- •The Norman Conquest of England / Нормандское завоевание Англии
- •The British Parliament
Islands located northeast of New Zealand. The country was
discovered by Europeans in 1642, but they did not start to
settle in the islands until the late 1700's. Today, most New
Zealanders are descendants of the early European settlers.
Maoris make up about 12% of the country's population.
New Zealand has one of the highest standard of living in
the world. For many years, the economy of the country depended
largely on agriculture. Today agriculture, manu- facturing,
and service industries are all important to the economy. New
Zealands economy depends on trade with many countries -
Australia, Britain, Japan and the United States.
New Zealand Way of Life
New Zealand have a high standard of living. New
Zealanders eat more butter and meat per person than do the
people of any other country. The government's medical
program provides excellent health care. About 70% of New
Zealand people own their houses. Almost every family has
a car.
Most New Zealanders live in singlefamily houses with a
small vegetable gardens. In the larger cities, some people live in
highrise apartment buildings. Almost in every New Zealand
home there are refrigerators, wash mashines, and other modern electrical appliances. But air conditioning and central heating are rare because the weather rarely becomes extremely hot or extremely cold. In summer, New Zealanders prefer to
keep windows open. In winter, fireplaces or electric heater keep the homes warm.
Although about fourfifths of New Zealand's populationlive in urban areas, cities are uncrowded. Traffic jams seldom
occur, even in downtown areas. Large cities have excellent
restaurants, milk bars, theatres, concert halls, and other places
of entertainment. City life in New Zealand tends to be rathe*
quiet. However it is changing in larger cities, whereinternational tourism is developing rapidly.
Near a fifth of New Zealand's people live in rural areas —
In some of them, small settlements are linked by good roads.
But in other areas, rancher's nearest neighbours may live
kilometers away. Some ranchers live almost in isolation.
Nevertheless, most farms and ranches have electricity. Many farm families run their farms with little or no hired help.
Traditional American Food
Americans eat a lot. They have three meals a day: breakfast,
lunch and dinner.Most of Americans don't eat home but prefer to go to restaurants.
They can choose from many kind of restaurants.There is a great number of ethnic restaurants in the United
States. Italian, Chinese and Mexican food is very popular.An American institution is the fast food restaurant, which
Is very convenient but not very healthy.However there are some principles of American cuisine
(if we may call it so). Americans drink a lot of juices and
soda, eat a lot of meat, fruits and vegetables, not much bread.In the morning Americans have cereal or scrambled eggs,
milk or orange juice.Chicken or fish, fried potatoes, vegetable salads, and desert: this is the most common menu for lunch.Dinner is probably the most important meal of the day, somepeople have family dinner, when all members of family have to
be there. For dinner Americans usually have meat, fried orbaked potatoes with ketchup or sour cream, corn, peas, sometimes macaroni and cheese or spaghetti; ice-cream, fruit or cake may be for dessert.
Turkey, ham and apple pie are traditional for Christmas
and Thanksgiving Day dinners.
The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. These limitations serve to protect the natural rights ofliberty and property. They guarantee a number of personal freedoms, limit the government's power in judicial and other proceedings, and reserve some powers to the states and the public. While originally the amendments applied only to the federal government, most of their provisions have since been held to apply to the states by way of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The amendments were introduced by James Madison to the 1st United States Congress as a series of legislative articles. They were adopted by the House of Representatives on August 21, 1789,[1][2] formally proposed by joint resolution of Congress on September 25, 1789, and came into effect as Constitutional Amendments on December 15, 1791, through the process of ratification by three-fourths of the States. While twelve amendments were passed by Congress, only ten were originally passed by the states. Of the remaining two, one was adopted as the Twenty-seventh Amendment and the other technically remains pending before the states.
Originally, the Bill of Rights legally protected only land-owning white men,[3] excluding African Americans[4] and women.[5][6]. However, these limitations were not explicit in the Bill of Right's text. It took additional Constitutional Amendments and numerous Supreme Court cases to extend the same rights to all U.S. citizens.
The Bill of Rights plays a key role in American law and government, and remains a vital symbol of the freedoms and culture of the nation. One of the first fourteen copies of the Bill of Rights is on public display at the National Archives in Washington, D.C..
Sport in the USA (1)
Americans play tennis, hockey and most other international
sports but they do not play football in the same way as the
rest of the world. The players can run with the ball, touch and
push each other. Players wear special clothes for American
football with helmets on their heads, because the game can be
dangerous. Like international football teams, American teams
have eleven players. The field looks different and even the
ball is a different shape. American football is very different
game.
Americans love winter sports and ice hockey is the most
popular game. This game is very fast and can be dangerous.
Basketball is another popular game in America. Only five
people in each team.
Americans' interest in sports seems excessive to many
foreign visitors. Television networks spend millions of dollars
arranging to telecast sports events. Publications about sports
sell widely. In the US professional athletes can become
national heroes.
Sports are associated with educational institutions in a
way is unique. High schools have coaches as faculty members,
and school teams compete with each other.
Nowhere else in the world are sports associated with colleges
and universities in the way they are in the States. College
sports, especially football, are conducted in an atmosphere
of intense excitement and pageantry. Games between teams
attract nationwide television audiences.
The sport that is most popular in most parts of the
world — soccer — is not well known in the US. The most
popular sports are football and baseball, games that are not
played in large number of countries.
Sports play such an important role in American life that
the sociology of sports, sports medicine, and sports psychology
have become respectable specializations.
Many Americans jog every day, or play tennis or bridge two or three times a week. They go on ski tri/ps and hunting
expeditions that require weeks of planning and organizing.In the Americans' view, all these activities are worth thediscomfort they may cause because they contribute to health
and physical fitness. That is probably why Americans are
known as a healthy nation.
Baseball is the most popular summer sport in America.The first American baseball match was in 1839 in New York.
To play baseball you need two teams of nine players. Americans
start playing baseball young. There are "leagues" which
children of eight can join. The top players become big stars
and earn a lot of money every year.
Our youth is mostly similar to the youth abroad in manyaspects of life. Numerous youth organizations have been formed since the Second World War, uniting young peoplefrom all classes and sections of the population. In the USAexists a Young Republican Federation, Young Christian Association, some religious organizations for Jewish youth.Youth organization Green peace deals with the most urgent ecological problems of today's world. It protests against
nuclear weapon test, sea and soil pollution, etc.Sport clubs are characteristic youth organizations in the US and UK. They unite people, who are interested in baseball,
football, basketball, golf, etc. You can attend any club: fromtheater clubs to bird-watching clubs. Bird-watching clubs are very popular, especially in Great Britain. And at the age of 14 children have regular part-time job to earn some pocket money. Some young people work in their church
organizations. They help elderly people or work in hospital.There are even some groups, where young people help released
prisoners to start their life anew. Youth and youth movemenover decades have become important factors in the life of
both countries.
Australia (1).