III etap - zagadnienia do opracowania

KNOW AMERICA 2012 – ZAGADNIENIA DO ROZMOWY

  • What makes American democracy so unique?
  • Talk about your favorite American piece of art
  • Name a few political leaders who were not presidents
  • What is the myth of the “Road 66”
  • How did America become an industrial empire, who made it possible?
  • Talk about high arts in America
  • Name several American museums; take us on a tour in one
  • What is the reason for American infatuation with JFK?
  • Identify several great American inventors
  • What major American newspapers do you know?
  • Some people believe America is a declining empire, what do you think?
  • Samuel Huntington expresses anxiety over Hispanics role in US, what is your opinion?
  • Why would New York be called a “cultural capital of US”?
  • What are the values of “American Creed”?
  • What is so unusual about current elections in US?
  • Identify five major books that defined American culture
  • What is the position of women in American politics and business?
  • Why do people say that America is basically a conservative nation?
  • Is America a “nation” or is it rather a “society”?
  • How is American economy doing today?
  • Discuss the recent rise of Christian Right in America
  • What is the legacy of slavery in America?
  • Why do some analysts define American foreign policy as “imperialism”?
  • What was the basic difference between 1950s and 1960s?
  • Who are the baby boomers?
  • Talk about major failures in American history
  • Can we talk about “American cuisine”?
  • Discuss the significance of cars in American culture
  • Talk about the significance of guns in American culture
  • What are the major regions of America? What distinguishes them from one another?
  • What European influences do you see in contemporary America?
  • What did Kagan mean when he said that “Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus”?
  • Who would you like to be in America today?
  • What are American greatest business leaders today?
  • Take us on a tour of the Kennedy Center.
  • Describe the purpose and activity of the National Endowment for the Arts.
  • The influence of Colonial past on American history since 1776.
  • Foreign-born American heroes.
  • Role of the Frontier in American history and culture.
  • Emigrations from the USA.
  • Presidential "dynasties" in the US history.
  • Allies and alliances in the history of American foreign policy.
  • Role of violence in American political and socio-cultural history.
  • The USA and world organizations - League of Nations, United Nations.
  • America as a Colonial Power (past and present).
  • Place and role of environmental protection in the USA.
  • What was and what is “Americanism/American nationalism”?
  • What forms does anti-Americanism take and where does it come from?
  • What role do scandals play in American history? Name major scandals
  • Discuss the intricacies of the rules of presidential elections
  • What was the role of minorities in American history
  • Identify major waves of Immigration
  • Why do Americans intervene overseas, name major events
  • How did the US expand territorially
  • Rate American presidents, what criteria would you use
  • Name your favorite historical figure from American history
  • Discuss the input of minorities into American culture
  • Why do Americans love musicals so much?
  • Which moment in American history would you like to witness and why?
  • Name greatest American war commanders/generals
  • Discuss the causes and consequences of the Civil War
  • Discuss the output of your favorite American writer
  • Tell us why would you like to study at an American university and where would it be
  • How is American English different from the original British English?

Explain the phrase “all politics is local”

KNOW AMERICA 2012 – HASŁA DO WYKORZYSTANIA W ROZMOWIE

  • Affirmative action
  • New Deal
  • Alamo
  • Pilgrims/Pilgrim Fathers
  • Rat Pack
  • “rags to riches”
  • Air Force One
  • Plymouth Rock
  • Illegal Alien
  • Spoils system
  • American Dream
  • The New Yorker
  • Checks and balances
  • Reconstruction
  • Founding Fathers
  • Gilded Age
  • Broadway
  • Progressivism/Progressive Era
  • Peace Corps
  • Three Mile Island
  • Camp David
  • Pledge of Allegiance
  • G.I.
  • Superbowl
  • “Old Glory”
  • Robber Barons
  • Boston Tea Party
  • Roe v. Wade
  • Oval Office
  • Anti-Federalists/Federalists
  • Fireside Chat
  • Pony Express
  • Civil disobedience
  • Washington and cherry tree
  • Gold rush
  • off-Broadway
  • Enola Gay
  • Rough riders
  • Frontier
  • redcoats
  • Brain drain
  • Articles of Confederation
  • Manifest Destiny
  • Soap opera
  • Dixie
  • Nashville
  • Freedom Riders
  • Salem witch trials
  • Beat Generation/Beatnik
  • Warren Commission
  • Impeachment
  • Square Deal
  • Carpetbagger
  • Walk of Fame
  • Truman Doctrine?Containment
  • Washington Mall
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • WASP
  • Census
  • Shay’s rebellion
  • Lost generation
  • Prohibition
  • Groundhog day
  • Watergate
  • Marine One
  • Salvation Army
  • E pluribus unum
  • Woodstockv
  • Monroe Doctrine
  • Tin Pan Alley
  • Louisiana Purchase
  • We shall overcome
  • Green Card
  • Uncle Sam
  • Ivy League
  • talk radio
  • Liberty Bell
  • spirituals/gospel
  • Confederate flag
  • yellow ribbon
  • Mason-Dixon Line
  • the Untouchables
  • d-day
  • West Point
  • D.C.
  • Trail of Tears
  • GOP
  • Greenwich Village
  • Independence Hall
  • Busing
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott
  • Levittown
  • McCarthyism
  • Underground Railroad
  • Rosa Parks
  • Tonkin Gulf Resolution
  • Ku Klux Klan
  • Nation of Islam
  • Muckrakers
  • Ellis Island
  • Melting Pot
  • Wall Street
  • Mayflower Compact
  • “Democracy in America”
  • Jim Crow
  • Bible belt
  • Nation of Islam
  • neoconservatism/neocons
  • Babe Ruth
  • Guantanamo
  • American Exceptionalism
  • Main Street
  • Political correctness
  • separate but equal
  • American Dream
  • Great Society
 
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