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English Speaking World: The US 🇺🇸

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English Speaking World: The US 🇺🇸

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Have you ever been to the USA?

The USA is in North America.

Population: 329.5 million Area: 9.834 million km²

It is the country with the largest English-speaking population on the planet, with 283 million English speakers.

The US has NO official language.

The United States is a "constitutional federal republic", in which the president, Congress, and judiciary share powers reserved to the national government, and the federal government shares sovereignty with the state governments.

This means some decisions are made at a national level and some are made at a state level.

a federal system

Climate

arid climate

tropical climate

plains

mountainous

tundra

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What climate in the US would you like to visit?

Famous cities include: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Washington D.C, Miami and many more.

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What is your favourite US city?

The US is a very powerful and influential country.

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What does "influential" mean?

It is especially influential when it comes to pop culture: US movies, music, television and trends are enjoyed around the world.

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What are your favourite American shows or movies?

How the English Speaking World sees Americans!

Americans are considered one of the friendliest and most talkative of the English speaking countries.

talkative: likes to talk

It is also seen as quite a capitalist or consumerist society, with a big focus on success

big cars, big food, big houses

Max's thoughts:

I admire the idea that anyone can achieve anything, which isn't necessarily the belief in the UK.

linguistic differences in the states:

colour vs COLOR 🇺🇸

apologise vs APOLOGIZE 🇺🇸

defence vs DEFENSE 🇺🇸

the letter R

many words: college (instead of university), sneakers 👟 , ZIP codes, the letter 'Z'

"like" - California (Let's, like, totally go to the mall!") "y'all" - the South "aloha" - Hawaii

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What is the name of the national anthem?

Say, can you see By the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed At the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars Through the perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watched, Were so gallantly, yeah, streaming? And the rockets' red glare The bombs bursting in air Gave proof through the night That our flag was still there O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave

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The USA is in North America.

It is the country with the largest English-speaking population on the planet, with 283 million English speakers.

The US has NO official language.

The United States is a "constitutional federal republic", in which the president, Congress, and judiciary share powers reserved to the national government, and the federal government shares sovereignty with the state governments.

This means some decisions are made at a national level and some are made at a state level.

a federal system

Climate

arid climate

tropical climate

plains

mountainous

tundra

Famous cities include: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Washington D.C, Miami and many more.

The US is a very powerful and influential country.

It is especially influential when it comes to pop culture: US movies, music, television and trends are enjoyed around the world.

How the English Speaking World sees Americans!

Americans are considered one of the friendliest and most talkative of the English speaking countries.

It is also seen as quite a capitalist or consumerist society, with a big focus on success

big cars, big food, big houses

Max's thoughts:

linguistic differences in the states:

colour vs COLOR 🇺🇸

apologise vs APOLOGIZE 🇺🇸

defence vs DEFENSE 🇺🇸

the letter R

many words: college (instead of university), sneakers 👟 , ZIP codes, the letter 'Z'

"like" - California (Let's, like, totally go to the mall!") "y'all" - the South "aloha" - Hawaii

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