Uncle’s Islands.ppt

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Contented Colonials Populous Puerto Rico Various Virgins Sleepy Samoa Grumbling Guam Much-disputed Marianas Democracy, DC peninsula archipelago reef atoll: A ringlike coral island and reef that nearly or entirely encloses a lagoon(泻湖，环礁湖). cliff beach Key to Analysis of the content 1) C 2) A 3) B 4) A 5) C 1）The people on those islands enjoy the rights of American citizenship including the rights to live and work on the mainland and the economic benefits. 2) On the Virgin Islands, people drive on the left and in America on the right. 3) The economy of tourism brings the Virgin Islands the greatest benefit. 4) American Samoa is the least assimilated. 5) Tiny Wake Island is the place where American day begins. 6) The Northern Marianas have had a long colonial history. The Spanish held them for 300 years. Then in 1898, Germany took over the islands. After WWI, they were entrusted to Japan. Finally in 1945, they became an American trust territory. 7) They are more familiar to Japanese, because plenty of Japanese visit those islands every year. 8)The people in the District of Columbia can vote for the federal president (and pay federal taxes). 1) Is it beneficial for those islands to remain under America’s control? 2) Is America’s empire of islands a democratic one? Preview next text. Recite the new words and terms. Two students prepare for the news report. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * An island in the western Pacific that was awarded to the United States after the Spanish-American War in 1898 and has had military significance since that time. It was governed by the Navy until 1950 and is still the home of a large U.S. naval station. The Japanese invaded and occupied Guam for thirty months starting in December 1941. It was liberated in July 1944. Agana is the capital. Population: 171,000. An unincorporated territory of the United States in the southern Pacific Ocean northeas