Language Focus:

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Exercises Pages in the printed book
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ex. 2 p. 244 p. 219
ex. 4 p. 245 p. 220
Create a list of stereotypes about Americans and Russians.

2. The American Dream is the faith held by many in the United States of America
that through hard work, courage, and determination one can achieve financial
prosperity. These were values held by many early European settlers, and have
been
passed on to subsequent generations. What the American Dream has become is a
question under constant discussion, and some believe that it has led to an
emphasis on material wealth as a measure of success and/or happiness.
Looks at the terms given below and choose the ones which are associated with the
American Dream of nowadays. Explain their meanings.

Free trade policy

Policy of non-interference by government in foreign trade is referred to as “free
trade”. Free trade policy implies absence of any artificial restriction on or obstacle
to the freedom of trade of a country with other nations.

Civil rights
Civil rights, guarantees of equal social opportunities and equal protection under the
law regardless of race, religion, or other personal characteristics. Examples
of civil rights include the right to vote, the right to a fair trial, the right to a public
education, and the right to use public facilities.

Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a region in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in
Northern California that serves as a global center for high technology and
innovation.

Health care
Health care is the maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention,
diagnosis, treatment, recovery, or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical
and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health professionals
and allied health fields. Medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, midwifery, nursing,
optometry, audiology, psychology, occupational therapy, physical therapy, athletic
training and other health professions are all part of health care.

Private house
A house that is a private home, as distinct from a shop, office, or public building.

Gold Rush
a large-scale and hasty movement of people to a region where gold has been
discovered, as to California in 1849.

Computer Age
The Information Age (also known as the Computer Age, Digital Age, or New
Media Age) is a historical period that began in the mid-20th century, characterized
by a rapid epochal shift from the traditional industry established by the Industrial
Revolution to an economy primarily based upon information technology.

Industrial Revolution
Industrial Revolution, in modern history, the process of change from an agrarian
and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing.

First Continental Railroad

North America's first transcontinental railroad (known originally as the "Pacific
Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a 1,912-mile (3,077 km)
continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the
existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at
the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay.

Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place
mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

Suburbs
A suburb of a city or large town is a smaller area which is part of the city or large
town but is outside its centre.

McCarthyism
McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason,
especially when related to communism. The term refers to U.S. senator Joseph
McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) and has its origins in the period in the United States
known as the Second Red Scare, lasting from the late 1940s through the 1950s. It
was characterized by heightened political repression and a campaign spreading fear
of communist influence on American institutions and of espionage by Soviet
agents. After the mid-1950s, McCarthyism began to decline, mainly due to the
gradual loss of public popularity and opposition from the U.S. Supreme Court led
by Chief Justice Earl Warren.

Dot-com boom
The dot-com boom refers to the speculative investment bubble that formed around
Internet companies between 1995 and 2000. The soaring prices of Internet start-
ups encouraged investors to pour more money into any company with a “.com” or
an “e-something” in its business plan. This excess capital encouraged Internet
companies to form, often with very little planning, in order to get in on some of the
easy money that was available at the time.
The dot-com boom is also known as the dot-com bubble, Internet bubble, IT
bubble or Internet boom.

Public education
Public education is the provision of state-funded education to a country's residents,
or, more generally (and taking history into account), the provision of publicly-
funded education to the residents of a given region.
The existence of public education itself is largely uncontroversial (although in the
United States movements to privatize the entire system have gained increasing
clout), and most debate concerns the material being taught, the nature of funding,
and the ultimate goal of the education system.

4. What is the source of the following slogans? Which of them can be heard in
Russia?

Good to the last drop - Maxwell House Coffee

Swith on the sunshine – Coca Cola (?)
That’ll do nicely
Taxation without representation is tyranny –
is a political slogan that originated in the American Revolution, and which
expressed one of the primary grievances of the American colonists against Great
Britain.
I’m loving it – McDonald’s
It’s fingerlickin’ good – The phrase finger lickin' good (or formally "finger licking
good") is an expression of praise for good food. It may also refer specifically to: A
Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan used from the 20th century.
Make love, not war – "Make love, not war" is an anti-war slogan commonly associated with
the American counterculture of the 1960s. It was used primarily by those who were opposed to
the Vietnam War, but has been invoked in other anti-war contexts since, around the world.
A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play - Mars Candy Bars
Remember Pearl Harbor! – Remember Pearl Harbor was a slogan or saying
popular in the United States after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December
7, 1941. Commander Lewis Preston Harris first coined the phrase "Remember
Pearl Harbor".