Презентация по английскому языку на тему THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The flag of the United States of America is called “50 Stars and 13 Stripes”. There are three colours on the flag- red, white and blue. Capital: Washington, D.C. National language: English Big cites: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco and others Government: Federal constitutional republic President: Barack Obama Vice President: Joe Biden Speaker of the House: Nancy Pelosi Chief Justice: John Roberts The United States of America The United States of America are situated in the central part of the North American continent. Its western coast is washed by the Pacific Ocean and its eastern coast-by the Atlantic Ocean. It borders on Canada in the north and on Mexico in the south. The total area of the country is more than nine million square kilometers. America is the fourth largest country in the world (after Russia, Canada and China). The president is the heard of the state. The President is Barack Obama. The national capital is Washington, D.C. Its population is about 3,4 million people. It was named after George Washington. The Capitol, where the Congress meets is in the centre of the city. The south fasade of the White House, home and workplace of the U.S president. The south facade of the White House, home and workplace of the U.S president. The largest cities of the USA are: New York Chicago Los Angeles Philadelphia San Francisco ….. and many other Atlanta Baltimore Las Vegas Manhattan The longest rivers in the USA are the Mississippi, the Missouri and the Rio Grande. The highest mountains are the Rocky Mountains, the Cordillera and the Sierra Nevada. Climate: mostly temperate, but tropical in Hawaii and Florida and arctic in Alaska, semiarid in the great plains west of the Mississippi River and arid in the Great Basin of the southwest; low winter temperatures in the northwest are ameliorated occasionally in January and February by warm chinook winds from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains Natural resources: coal, copper, lead, molybdenum, phosphates, uranium, bauxite, gold, iron, mercury, nickel, potash, silver, tungsten, zinc, petroleum, natural gas, timber There are two political parties in the USA: the Republican and the Democratic. One of the famous symbols of the USA is the Statue of Liberty. Here is the Mount Rushmore Memorial. The construction of this memorial began in 1925. Gutzon Borglum, a famous American sculptor, carved on the face of Mount Rushmore the heads of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt. THE END!