VIP Class Notes (Nicholas)
Next Class Focus
Review Mexico and Central America, and the idea of “extinct”.
Pronunciation
- Maine
- New York
- New Hampshire
- Vermont
- Massachusettes
- Rhode Island
- Connecticut – CUH-NET-IH-CIT
- New Jersey
- Delaware
- Pennsylvania – PEN-SULL-VANE-YA
- Maryland
- West Virginia
- Virginia
- Ohio
- Michigan
- Indiana
- Kentucky – KIN-TUCKY
- Illinois – ILL-IN-NOY
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- Tennesse – TEN-UH-SEE
- Georgia – GEORGE-UH
- Florida – FLOOR-RIH-DUH
- Louisiana – LU-EASY-ANN-UH
- Alabama – AL – UH – BAM- UH
- Mississippi – MISS-IS-SIP-PEE
- Arkansas – AR-CAN-SAW
- Missouri – MIZZ-ZOR-EE
- Iowa – EYE-OH-WUH
- Wisconsin – WIS-CON-SIN
- Minnesota – MIN-UH-SO-TUH
- North Dakota
- South Dakota
- Nebraska – NUH-BRASK-UH
- Kansas
- Oklahoma – OH-KLA-HOME-UH
- Texas
- New Mexico
- Colorado – CALL-UH-ROD-OH
- Wyoming – WHY-OH-MING
- Montana – MON-TAN-UH
- Washington
- Oregon
- Idaho
- Nevada – NUH-VAD-UH
- Utah
- California
- Arizona
- Hawaii – HUH-WHY-EE
- Alaska
New Orleans / NEW OR-LINS
Cowboys
Vocabulary
Gold Rush – a rush of people or many people came to California in search for gold including Chinese people
Rust Belt – 锈 – the part of America that lost their manufacturing jobs
e.g. Trump won the Presidency because he won the support of the Rust Belt.
temperate = consistent = the same weather all year round
Everglades – 沼泽地 – the wetlands of the USA
e.g. The American alligator lives in the Florida Everglades.
alligator vs. crocodile
alligator – smaller, longer mouth
crocodile – bigger, wider mouth
Great Plains – plains = flatlands where there are many tornadoes
e.g. There are many tornadoes that destroy people’s homes on the Great Plains.
tornado – 龙卷风
e.g. Dorothy’s home from the Wizard of OZ was in Kansas, right in the middle of Tornado Alley.
raccoon – 浣 熊
eg. Sometimes people in America think that raccoons are thieves!
jazz music – an African American style of music
e.g. If you want to listen to jazz music, go to New Orlean’s.
hurricane – 飓风- heavy rain + wind + tornado
e.g. Hurricanes destroy the southeast of the USA.
e.g. Hurricanes are bigger than monsoons.
e.g. The only safe place in a hurricane is in the “eye of the hurricane” — this is the center.
blizzard – big snow storms
lake effect snow – the lakes cause this snow
monsoon – 季风 – heavy rain + wind
Grammar
Two-thirds of all cities are by the sea
Oceans cover 70 percent of the world
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