ANTONINO’S ENGLISH

Conversational and structural ENGLISH LEARNING.

FAMOUS ENGLISH LEARNING THROUGH STORY, LEVEL 1. Surviving Adversity, by: Kool.ES

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

CHAPTER 1.

In the beginning.

(4) Think of a big, beautiful, empty land with mountains, forests, lakes, animals, and

fish, but no people. (5) This was America 16,000 years ago. (6) Around that time, the

first people probably arrived in Alaska from Asia. (7) They travelled south and became

the Native Americans of North America and the Maya, Aztecs, Inca and other peoples

of Central and South America. (8)The Inuit [Eskimos] came to Canada and the Arctic

the same way. (9) But there are only a few of these people in America today. (10) In the

sixteenth century, Europeans started to come to America, and soon after that, they

brought slaves from Africa to work for them. (11) Large numbers of immigrants

continued to arrive from all over the world until the middle of the twentieth century. (12)

The empty land was now full of people, speaking different languages and with different

ideas. (13) There are just three countries now in North America – Canada, Mexico and

the USA – but there were nearly several more. (14) And the 300 million people who live

in the fifty states of the United States are not all the same. (15) About 67 per cent are

white, 13 per cent Hispanic [Spanish-speaking], 13 per cent black, 4 per cent Asian and

just 1 per cent Native American. (16) Most of them speak English, but it is not the same

English as people speak in Britain, and many Americans speak Spanish as their first
language. So, (1) how was the USA born?, (2) How did it grow?, (3) What kind of

country is it now? This book will try to answer those questions, and many more.