Other National Symbols

Other national symbols include the Liberty Bell, Uncle Sam and the Stature of Liberty.

Exercise 2. Listen to the text “A Noble Gift” and answer the following questions (Alexander Course, text № 93)

1. What is one of the most famous places of interest in New York?

2. What is the Statue made of?

3. What country presented it to the USA?

4. Who was the sculptor of the famous monument?

5. When was the Statue officially presented to the people of America?

6. What is the height of the monument?

Exercise 3. What do the following dates in the text refer to?

19^th century, 10 years, by 1884, 151 feet tall, by the end of October 1886

It is interesting to know that …

the hamburger is the most eaten food in America. The first hamburgers were made and sold in Connecticut in 1895 by an American chef called Louis Lassen. Louis called them hamburgers because he was given the recipe by sailors from Hamburg in Germany. Hamburgers became a favourive in America in the early part of the 20^th century. Their popularity grew even more after the Second World War, when they were bought in large quantities by teenagers who preferred fast food to family meals. In 1948 two brothers, Dick and Mac McDonald opened a drive-in hamburger restaurant in San Bernardino, California. Since then over 25,000 McDonald’s restaurants were opened worldwide and now 35 million McDonald’s hamburgers are eaten every day in 115 countries from India to the Arctic Circle.