Projecto Ingles II AMERICAN

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English project

Activities
Pages 1-6
Before you read.
1 What do you know about the United States? How is it different from your country? Make
notes about:
the size of the country the people the food work
2 Look at the Word List at the back of the book. Then answer these questions.
a. Which album by an American singer do you like most?
b. How many television channels can you SEE on your television? Do they all show
comercials?
c. Do you like TV shows about crime and police work? Why (not)?
d. Which radio stations do you listen to? Why?
White you red
3 Are these sentences right (✓) or wrong (x)?
a. Washington, DC, is in the center of the country.
b. There are 50 states is the US.
c. The United States is the biggest country in the world.
d. The Sears Tower is smaller than the Empire State Building.
e. New York has more people than any other state.
After you read.
4 What happened first? What happened next?
a. President Thomas Jefferson bought land from France.
b. Christopher Columbus went to America.
c. The first people arrived in America from Siberia.
d. 200 Sioux people died at Wounded Knee in South Dakota.
e. The North of the United States fought the South.
f. The Mayflower arrived at Plymouth Rock.
g. George Washington became the first president.
5 Work with another student. Talk about your country’s “story” White down the most
importante dates.
Pages 7-11
Before you read.
6 Discuss the “average American.” What do you think
How many Americans (%)
a smoke? d have a dog or car?
b finish collage? e marry?
c play sports? f think that they are fat?
While you read
7 Are these sentences right (✓) or wrong (x)?
a. In 1790 most immigrants were European.
b. In 1790 most African immigrants were slaves.
c. The Statue of Liberty is in Washington, DC.
d. Today most immigrants to the US are British.
e. More than 1,000,000 immigrants arrive in the US every day.
8 Circle the right words.
a. The Mall of American has more than 500/400/100 stores.
b. Most Americans eat dinner/lunch/hamburgers at about 5:30 P.M.
c. Most houses in America have two/theree/four bathrooms.
d. The most expensive city in the US is Dallas/New York/San Francisco.
e. Most Americans only have one or two weeks’/days’/months’ vacation each year.
After you read.
9 Marcos wants to play American football. What Will he have to do well when he plays?
Discuss this questions with other students.
Pages 12-19
Before you read.
10 Give each sentence a number between 1 (wrong) and 10 (very right).
What do you think?
a. People in the US have to have a car.
b. The US is a very dangerous place.
c. Most Ameticans are rich.
11 How many American sports do you know? Which do you like most? Why?
While you read.
12 Put the right numbers and dates in the sentences below.
4 20 30,000 1903 5 1963
a. The average American goes somewhere in a car times a day.
b. Only % of Americans catch the bus or train to work.
c. Henry Ford built the first car in Detroit in .
d. The state of Michigan make % of all new cars in the US.
e. Guns hurt or kill Americans every year.
f. In Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke to thousands of people in Washington,
DC.
After you read.
13 Finish the sentences with words on the right.
a. In baseball, hitters dream…
b. Barry Bonds plays…
c. African- Americans could
not play…
d. The first game of American
football was…
e. Professional football
players are…
f. David Beckham started
playing...
g. Most basketball players
are...
h. Ice hockey started…

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