1. What are the American main geographical features?

2. What it a federal republic?

3. What are time zones and what are the four time-zones of the States?

4. Describe American landscape.

5. List its main mountain ranges, rivers, plains and lakes and place them on the map.

6. What is a transportation route? What is the most famous one in America?

7. Identify the principal climatic conditions of the States.

8.  What is Hurricane Katrina famous for?

History

1.  If you had to make a summary of the events of American history, what would you include in your list?

2.  Describe some aspects of the life and culture of the Indians.

3.  What were the consequences of the colonization for the Indians?

4.  What was the relationship between  the colonies and Britain, their homeland?

5.  What were the reasons for the War of Independence and what were its consequences?

6.  War of Secession or American civil War: two sides of America.

7. The role of America in the two world conflicts.

Government

a.  Explain the basics of American government and its constitutional principals.

b.  Explain the theory of the system of checks and balances.

Population

1. Who are the “original” Americans?

2. What does the American society consist of? (Refer to percentage)

3. Who were the first settlers?

4.  What kind of people arrive later in the 1800s?

5.  What were the consequences of this massive immigration?

6.  What were the reactions to the later immigrations?

7. Where do the latest immigrants come from?

8. Describe the two American points of view on the issue of this recent immigration.

9. Explain the metaphor of the vegetable soup.

Economy

1. What factors have contributed to America’s position of economic world leader.

2. Why is the American economy described as a free enterprise?

3.  What are the main economic resources of the American regions?

Food

1. Why is the American eating habit generally not recommended?

2. What is the fast food culture? In what sense is it opposed to the slow food culture?

3. List some typical American dishes.

Festivities

1. List the main American festivals.

2. What are the origins of these main festivities?

3. Which ones were imported from the immigrants and which ones are made in U.S.?