Tourist attractions in the United States

LECTURE 12

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

1. How does education influence Americans’ well-being?

2. What role did school play in the American history?

3. Why do people say that American education system is decentralized? How is American education financed?

4. How is American education organized? Give examples of various education patterns.

5. What do you know about American school curricula?

6. Why must all American states test their students statewide? What tests do you know?

7. Do post-secondary education and postgraduate study differ? If yes, in what?

8. What are the routes to the most prestigious universities?

This lecture tells us about tourist attractions of the U.S.A. focusing primarily on Washington, D.C. as the home of numerous national landmarks and one of the most popular tourist destinations in thenation. We will go on an outdoor excursion around the Mall and then visit the most notable museums located on the Mall.

Key Words and Proper Names: under the auspices of, lucrative, to promote tourism, tourist destinations, natural wonders, gambling venues, historic landmarks, pursue a noble mission, a reflecting pool, the promotion and dissemination of knowledge, by a bequest of, out of wedlock, mammal, curvilinear;

Pierre L’Enfant, James Smithson, Duke of Northumberland, Degas, Renoir, Sisley, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Claude Monet, E. Manet, Toulouse Lautrec, Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Rodin, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Henri Daumier, Modigliani, Perugino, El Greco, Leonardo Da Vinci, Chagall, Picasso, Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and Alexander Calder, Charles Lindbergh;

The U.S. Capitol, the Mall, Supreme Court Building, Union Station, National Archives Building, White House, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Tidal Basin (with the Japanese cherry trees), Thomas Jefferson Memorial, Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian Institution, and FDR Memorial., the Ulysses Grant Memorial, the Pentagon, t he Iwo Jima memorial (or Marine Corps War memorial), Arlington National Cemetery, the Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns, the National Archives, the Hirshhorn Museum, National Air and Space Museum, National Museum of American History, National Museum of the American Indian, National Museum of Natural History, National Gallery of Art, National Portrait Gallery, Yosemite National Park, Newburyport, Massachusetts, the Wailing Wall, "The Star-Spangled Banner", Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, the Washington National Cathedral.

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