Get information about The United States
Use the information to create a web page

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Objective

Find out information about the United States. Create a web page about it at the end.

 


 

Work

 

 


Find out (trouve) what the letters U.S.A. stand for (=represent). Write it in your Word document.


Find out how many continents there are in the world. Write it in your Word document.


Find out where the United States is situated. Write it in your Word document.

 

Click on the red arrow in the web page. Read the text and look at the map.


What is the country situated south of the United States?


What is the country situated north of the United States?


What is the ocean situated west of the United States?


What is the ocean situated east of the United States?

 

 

Click on the red arrow in the web page. Read the text and look at the map.

 


Find out how many states (états) there are in the United States.


Find out how many states are between Canada and Mexico.


Find out the name of the state situated north west of Canada. Look at the map if you don't know.

 

 


Find out where Hawaii is situated. Look at the two maps. Write two sentences to explain where it is.

 

Click on the red arrow in the web page. Read the text.

 


Copy the text in your Word document and fill in the blanks. (Complète les phrases).

Washington D.C. is the capital of the United States. The capital of a country is the place where the government _________________, where the president ____________ and where Congress meets.


The name Washington D.C. comes from the name of the ____________________________.

 


Washington D.C. became the capital of the United States at the beginning of the
sixteenth century
seventeenth century
eighteenth century
nineteenth century
twentieth century


 

 

 

Click on the red arrow to get back to the beginning.

 


 

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