高二英语下学期unit-16-USA.pptVIP

Statue of Liberty located in New York. It is a center of theatres. It is the largest seaport in the USA. There are many sky scrapers of large banks and offices of big companies. It is a street of an fashion and shopping center. World Trade Centre Empire State Building Manhattan September 11, 2001 New York Economic center Why do people say New York never sleeps”? New York never sleeps. The subway runs ______ hours a day, and there are ______ cinemas, ______ and restaurants. Some people think that the ______ is unpleasant, the city ugly and ______, the competition ______ and the streets ______. It is a city in a hurry, but a very______ place to be. 24 all-night bars weather dirty fierce unsafe exciting America is a big melting pot. The melting pot here means that people with different cultural and racial backgrounds immigrate （迁移） to the States, live together, get mixed and build up this wonderful culture that we call American culture today. It’s a large country; It’s powerful; There are many big cities in the US; The US is the largest economy in the world. Summarizing: Total area about 9.4 million square kilometers ( the fourth largest ); has a long coastline of 22,680 kilometers population about 300 million Language English Spanish ( some minority groups ) Religion Christianity基督教(56%); Catholic天主教(28%); Judaism犹太教(2%) Climate continental climate ( most part ) subtropical climate ( the south ) Nickname Uncle Sam Melting pot坩埚;种族杂居区 A country location size population capital language education weather history agriculture and industry Speaking Look at the following Map of Ningbo and work in pairs to describe your own hometown using useful expressions on page 43. Map of Ningbo Yuyao is located in the eastern part of Zhejiang province, next to Hangzhou bay to the north, linked with Simingshan Mount to the south, joined with Shangyu city to the west and connected with Ningbo city to the east. With the population of 830,000, Yuyao covers an