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CHAPTER
1

AMERICAN
CULTURE
PART 2
Here starts the
lesson!
 CONTENTS

1 2 3 4
Understand Understand Skill building: Skill building:
main ideas details scanning critical thinking

5 6 7 8

Build Understand Word partners Expand

vocabulary prefixes knowledge
 1, Understand main ideas
- Information: main (the most important) ideas and supporting details.
- The introduction focuses your attention on the topic.
- The main points are presented.
- The conclusion reminds you of one or more central ideas.
- The headings help figure out the main points.
- Skimming is reading quickly to find main ideas of the passage.
(=> Notice the title, headings, and topic sentences of reading passages)
1. What are two important factors that affect
life in the United States?
The immense size of United States and its
great ethnic diversity
2. What is the heading for the section that
discusses the history of immigration in the
United States?
A nation of immigrants
3. What is cultural pluralism?
Different cultures live together
peacefully.
4. What is the main idea of the section
headed Making Generalizations about
American Beliefs?
It’s possible to make generalization about
American beliefs.
5. What relationship is there between the
quotation at the beginning of the chapter, the
introduction (first two paragraphs), and the
conclusion (paragraphs 25 and 26) of the
reading?
They give us the main content of this book –
American beliefs, values and character traits.
Through learning this process, you can
emerge with a better understanding not only
of Americans but also of your own culture
and yourself.
 2, Understand details
- T/F/NG: TRUE: correct information
FALSE: wrong information
NOT GIVEN: no information or not enough evidence
- STEPS:
1. Identify and underline keywords in the statements
2. Identify similar words in the passage (skim and scan)
3. Match the keywords and the similar words
4. Evaluate if they are same, synonyms, opposites/ if there's no match
5. Decide whether the statement is True, False or Not Given
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 3, Skill building: Scanning

Scanning is reading quickly to find

specific details within the passage:
names, places, titles, data, times,
dates…
1. Which states have the largest
numbers of immigrants?
California, New York, New Jersey
2. In what year did Alexis de
Tocqueville come to visit the United
States?
1831
3. In 1910, what percentage of the U.S.
population was foreign born?
308,745,538
4. What was the total U.S. population
according to the 2010 census?
14.8
5. In what year did Israel Zangwill write
a play in which he used the term melting
pot?
1908
6. What is Obama's family tie to Ireland?
great, great, great grandfather
 4, Skill building: critical
thinking
Read the poll and answer the questions 3.
2.
1. What
Whatdoes
percent
"generation"
does refer
the to themselves
phrase mean? What
"country as
of
do the
just "American?"
termsmean?
origin" "first,Who
second,
What arepercent
more
or thirdlikely
of all to
generation"
selfidentify as
Hispanic
Hispanics American
identifymean?
thanWhy
by any
themselves did
by the
their
researchers
other term--new
country divideimmigrants
the group
of origin? Give orthisthose
some way? born
examples
in theof these countries of origin.
United States?
 21%
“country of origin”
“generation” meansmeans country
all people of
 third
where
about orsame
higher
people
the agegeneration
come from
 First
51% generation: immigrants
Second
Argentina, Chile, Ecuador
generation: born in US
Third generation: grandchild of
immigrants
 Because each generation has
different thinking.
 5, Build vocabulary

Context clues help you guess the

meaning of words you do not
know by looking at the words
around an unfamiliar word.
 quota neutral observer
minority

neutral observer quota

identity
distinct
distinct

minority
identity
distinct
minority identity
6, Understand prefixes
Prefixes are a group of letters
added to the beginning of the
word (or its roots).

Prefixes can help you guess the

meaning of a new word.
 il- not

bi- two
muti- many

im- in, on
em- out

inter- between
7, Word partners
Collocation is the way in which
some words are often used
together, or a particular
combination of words used in this
way.

Learning these word partners will

increase your ability to use new
words correctly and help you
express yourself as native
speakers do.
 MATCHING

working immigrants

dominant pluralism

cultural hypotheses

legal culture
 8, Expand knowledge
Personal space

the distance from another person at which one feels comfortable when
talking to or being next to that other person.

- The rules for personal space: differ according to how well people know
each other.
- People may become very uncomfortable if the rules are broken and their
space is entered without permission.
 First Rule: In a crowd

- Americans have a bubble of space

around their bodies.
- This bubble must not be broken by a
stranger.
- American strangers touch each other
accidentally: say "Pardon me," "Excuse
me," "Oh, I'm sorry," "Sorry."
Second Rule: In elevators
 Second Rule: In elevators

- Face the door, speak quietly, and try to

avoid touching.
- Stand on the opposite side of the elevator
(when only one other person in an
elevator).
- Occupy the corners and try to disperse
themselves evenly throughout the
available space (when more people in the
elevator).
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Rocky Mountains
In 1981, the book ‘The Nine Nations of North America’ by Jack
Garreau: the North American continent is made up of nine different
regions (different culture, economy, political concern, and set of values).

(This book is no longer in print)

5. "Dixie": the old South tried to leave the
US during the Civil War, including the South
1. "The [-Kentucky,
Atlantic Empty Quarter": Because
Maryland, and the
Mountainand
Delaware) Division has Central
East South very low Divisions,
population
and density
the eastern part of Texas
6.
2. "The Islands”:
"Ecotopia": include
along southcoast
the west
Florida, Puerto
from Alaska Rico,Angeles;
to Los and the other
islands of the Caribbean
environmental issues
7. "Mex America": includes
3. "New England":
southern California includes the
and the other
northeastern coastal
states that border strip of Canada
Mexico
8. "The Breadbasket": made up of the
West
4. "TheNorth Centraloriginal
Foundry": Great Plains
industrial
states and the
area from stretches
Middlefrom up inthrough
Atlantic
Canada
the East to northern
North Texas;
Central Greatmuch of
Lakes
the nation's food…
region
9. “Quebec”: the home of most French
Canadians
BOOKS TO
READ
John F. Kennedy,A nation of
immigrants

Barack Obama, Dreams of my

father
MOVIES TO
WATCH

Last of the Mohicans

The Terminal
The end