The United States of America

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Think of 6 questions about the UK and its capital and write them down.

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1. The United Kingdom occupies....2. Most of the population..... 3. The Highlands are part of the country which.... 4. The Lowlands got this name because.... 5. The climate of Great Britain is influen­ced.... 6. Great Britain produces and exports.... 7. The intellectual centres of Europe are.... 8. Real power in the UK belongs to.... 9. London, which.... 10. The City is considered to be....

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Задание 10.

You come from Britain. You have just arrived from your native country to Belarus where you meet Belarusian students. Tell them about your country.

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The United States of America is a federal union of 50 states plus one independent district – the District of Columbia. Forty-nine states are situated on the continent but the 50th state is the state of Hawaii – a group of islands situated in the mid Pacific Ocean.

The vast and various territory of the United States stretches from the Atlantic Ocean, across the rich farms of the central plains, over the majestic Rocky Mountains to the fertile, densely populated West coast. The USA is twice as large as all the countries of Europe combined. It is washed by the Atlantic in the east and the Pacific in the west and controls the Panama Canal connecting these two oceans. In the course of the last hundred years the USA has fought many a war, always on foreign soil. Its own land has remained untouched.

America is a land of contrasts, including the weather. The Mississippi River, of great historic and economic importance to the USA, runs about 6,000 km from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico — the world's third longest river after the Nile and Amazon. The country is rich in coal, iron, ore, oil, natural gas, gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, aluminium, uranium and other natural resources.

The population of America is about 253 million, made up of immigrants or their descendants from virtually every country of the world. Black Americans who today number more than 30 million, constitute the largest single ethnic minority in the country. The US population is also made up of Asians, Hispanics, American Indians, and Eskimos.

The form of US government is based on the Constitution of September 17, 1787, adopted after the War of Independence.

The United States of America is a parliamentary republic. The government is divided into three branches: legislative (the US Congress), executive (the President and his Administration) and judicial (the US Supreme Court).

Each of the fifty states of the USA has a constitution patterned after the federal constitution, with its division of power: legislative, executive, and judicial.

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