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VIDEO COMPREHENSION: America the Story of Us: Superpower

Part 1 (min 0 – 22)

Questions:

1-      What natural resources had the USA in big quantities in 1945 ? And what population?

2-      How much more does the average American family earn than the European?

3-      What was the biggest threat to America’s development? 

4-      What were the first American highways?

5-      What vehicle was used for transport on them?

6-      What was the biggest engineer project in American history?

7-      What did Americans spend $65 billion on?

8-      What percentage of the world’s automobiles did America manufacture?

9-      What were the disadvantages and advantages of the Interstate Highways?

10-   What does the American Dream mean?

11-   How & why did the Suburbia phenomenon start?

12-   What was America massproducing in the 50s?

13-   What percentage of the Americans owned a house in the 1940s? And in the 60s?

14-   What technological invention let the American population grow in the southern states?

15-   The Spaceprogram , what was it based on?

Part 2 (min 22 – 44 )

16-   What did 400,000 people work  directly in?

17-    In 1969, a bad and a good event took place. What were they?

18-   When did the first African Americans arrive in Virginia?

19-   After the Civil War ended in 1864 slavery ended, but what problem did still exist?

20-   Where was not there segregation? What did it mean?

21-   What did the Civil Rights Movement achieve?

22-   What was the problem with the Soviet Union?

23-   How much money did the USA spend on nuclear weapons between 1940 and 1996 per American?

24-   What was made in 1959?

25-   What was the biggest inconvinient of a nuclear war?

26-   What was the U2 incident in 1960?

27-   What happened in 1962? What did it consist of?

28-   What was the interior threat  ?

29-   Name three differences between American and Sovietic mentality

AMERICANS	sovietics

Video with Steve Jobs:

see the differences between these two computers:

1st iMac 1988 

MacBook Air ultra-portable laptop 2008

AMPLIACIÓN 1 · VIDEO COMPREHENSION : HOW TO BE A GOOD STUDENT

Watch and listen to the video, and answer these questions:

1.       Name two reasons why you should take notes. (2 points)

2.       Name two reasons why it is good to participate in class. (2 points)

3.       Name two reasons why you should do the homework. (2 points)

4.       What should you do  if you found it difficult to concentrate when studying? (1 point)

5.       What do you show the teacher when you ask for help? (1 point)

6.       When you ask the teachers for help don’t see everything they say just as _________________. (1 point)

Vocabulary: brownosing= lick asses*** :     quit ;     grading policy

CAR VOCABULARY

In this video you can learn some car vocabulary

Download list of car vocabulary

AMPLIACIÓN 1 · VIDEO COMPREHENSION · AMAZON KINDLE 4 UNBOXING AND REVIEW

Watch the video and answer the questions. You don't need to watch it fully: when you reach minute 5, go to minute 11.

Vocabulary:

Glare: shine

Purchases: things you buy (to purchase: to buy)

Questions:

1-      What is the difference between the Kindle Ebook Reader that costs $79 and $109?

2-      Name any differences that you can see between Kindle 4 and Kindle 3 (shown at the beginning and the end of the video).

Kindle 4	Kindle 3

3-      What is the package made of? 
4-      What kind of USB cable has it got?

5-      Has it got a wall-adaptor? What do you have to do to charge the ebook reader?

6-      Name the 5 buttons at the front: from left to right:

1-

2-

3- D-Pad

4-

5-

7- Name the two side buttons (they are duplicated left and right):

8- Is the battery removable?

9- Name the three buttons at the bottom:

            1-

            2-

            3-

USA STATE CAPITAL CITIES

The capital cities of the States of the United States are not usually the biggest cities. For instance, the capital of California is not Los Angeles, but Sacramento; or the capital of the state of New York is not New York City, but Albany.

Take a look at the map:

download map

With these funney videos you'll be able to learn the Capital States with music

HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: THE ANGLOSAXONS

Link to the video


Old English was the language spoken by the Anglo-Saxons. It is very diffrent to today´s English (Contemporanean English). If a Spanish person reads a text in Old Spanish, he or she could understand most of it, but if an English person reads a text in Old English, very little could be understood.

Why has English changed more than Spanish throughout the centuries? Because of the many invasions England had: Vikings, Danish, Normans...

Barbarians The Saxons Video

Watch the video "BARBARIANS: SAXONS. PART 1 OF 5" and answer these

Questions:

1. Why were the Saxons recruited for the Roman army?
2. What Gods did the Saxons/Germans have?
3. Why were the Saxons forced to emigrate?
4. Why did the Romans abbandon Britain?
5. Why did the Britons call the Saxons to come to Britain?
6. What was the difference between the first and the second Saxon migrations to Britain?

Check this vocabulary before watching the video:

Raid, Raiders

mighty warriors

Merciless brutality,  (mercy)

Treachery (traitor) = betrayal (betrayer)

Conquest, conqueror

380 AD ( Anno Domini)  ; BC: Before Christ

Norse: Nordic, Scandinavian

Wotan= Odin; Thor

Villages were washed away= flooded, flood

The Romans ruled Britain with an iron fist

Ravage

Slaughtered

Famine, to starve

Tyrant= dictator, dictatorship

Lavish feast

He squealed when I sliced him open

Rewards: prize

For good

supplies    

to settle, settler, settlement 

The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England Explained

WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS:

1.  Are Great Britain and England the same?
2.  Are Great Britain and the UK the same?
3. Do the English, Scottish, Northern Irish and Welsh have the same passport?
4. Does the Republic of Ireland belong to the UK?
5.  Does the Republic of Ireland belong to the British Isles?
6. Say a goup of Islands that belong to Scotland.
7.  Who is the Head of State of Canada? And Australia?
8.  Where is physically the Crown of Great Britain?
9. Say a country of the Commonwealth in Asia. And one in Africa.
10. What islands are a cause of tension between the UK and Argentina?

History of the Union Jack

I love Australia! Australian accent

To tell you the truth, I've never been to Australia. But I'd love to! It's so far, isn't it? So lte's enjoy this video and "travel" a bit with this video to this country. Pay attention to the accent: Australian-English sounds quite similar to British-English, (compared to American-English) with one deatil: Australians tend to pronounce diphthong /eI/ as /aI/. Pay attention how they pronounce words like "day", "take".

Visiting New York with an expert!!

thelittlebuster.blogspot.com

Link to video

http://youtu.be/yqSiZad9D-I


We all would love to vist New York some time, who wouldn’t? So, if you don’t have the chance to do it so far, have a look at this video below and visit New York, but in a different way, not the typical “cultural” boring tour, but with a public relations of the hotel chain Intercontinental Resorts. He´ll show some interesting places that do not appear in the books or tourist brochures. Do it and make two lists of the places he shows you: “cultural- interest” places, and the non-so-cultural, let’s say, “commercial” ones, but not less interesting.
If you ever have visited NY, maybe you can give us some more tips. Is there an interesting place in NY that nobody knowns and that you could recommend here? Any suggestions welcome in “comentarios”. You can include videos and photos.