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A Background to Modern America - an advanced English reader
22 units, vocabulary, exercises and audio

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1. Articles with a North-American theme

• NEW     Los Angeles - city on the brink  With interactive worksheet and AUDIO
• NEW     From Magna Carta to American democracy  with interactive worksheet.
• NEW     (Technical) The electric car revolution, realistic or optimistic?  With interactive worksheet. Can the world really convert to electric vehicles by the middle of the century?
• NEW       Mark Twain and the frogs of Calaveras County. With AUDIO and interactive worksheet. A California festival is a tribute to Twain's famous short story.
• NEW       The American way of eating. With AUDIO and interactive worksheet. A short look at the origins of fast food.
• Steaming on the Mississippi. With AUDIO and interactive worksheet.  The Mississippi's famous paddleboats.
• Aeroponics. Agriculture for tomorrow's world. (Technical English)
• Nevada and its Extraterrestrials. Have aliens from another planet really been seen near the township of Rachel ?
• Log cabins and the White House. Many US presidents have come from humble roots.
• Gettysburg - the terrible battle . A dark page in US history - with four exercises and activities
•   Awaiting the Big One . Another massive earthquake could hit California in the near future
• Skyscrapers  now found in cities worldwide, Skyscrapers were once symbols of America.
• Wall Street Culture - One could call it America's most popular street culture.
• The story of Ellis Island, the gateway to America through which millions once passed. With AUDIO
• Thanksgiving - a very American festival. With AUDIO
• Mardi gras in New Orleans - the most colorful festival in the USA.
• College sport USA - Sport is part of US campus life, but at what cost?
• Rodeo - the sport of the American West .
• The Yukon Quest - The 1000 mile race that is the toughest race in the world..

People and society

• NEW     Thinking it over with baby.   Being a teenager and a mom at the same time is usually not a good idea. With AUDIO and interactive worksheet.
• The Man who changed the world. Henry Ford did more than anyone else to shape 20th century life. With AUDIO
• Hillary Clinton - the early years . by Nicole Bernheim.
• Citizen Welles - a short biography of Orson Welles, the greatest unsuccessful Holywood director.
• Who killed Martin Luther King? Mystery still surrounds the assassination of America's greatest civil rights leader. With AUDIO
• Rosa Parks - the young lady whose defiance helped start the Civil rights movement
• So just who is Angelyne ? - the Hollywood celebrity who's famous just for being famous
• America's Amish; model society?  A look at some Americans with an unusual lifestyle
• America's teen courts - Where teenage offenders are judged by other teens..
• Crime-time Basketball - Midnight basketball aims to keep young people off the streets..
• America's Drive-in Movie theaters - how much longer will they last?
• Americans fat and thin - A third of Americans are seriously overweight.
• The Mormons, a curiously American phenomenon.  One of America's biggest fringe religions. 

Music

• NEW   Woodie Guthrie . The Dustbowl baladeer.
• The Story of the Blues - by Robert Springer. With AUDIO
• Interview with Leonard Cohen .
• Jewel, the voice from Alaska - the singing sensation from America's far north.
• Mississippi music - Jazz, blues, soul and rock 'n' roll, they all originated in the Mississippi valley.
•  John Lennon- Remembering the death of the Beatle who changed the world..
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Places and environment

• NEW     Los Angeles - city on the brink  With interactive worksheet and AUDIO
• NEW   The electric car revolution, realistic or optimistic?  With interactive worksheet. Can the world really convert to electric vehicles by the middle of the century?
• Highway 66 revisited - A trip down America's legendary "Route 66"
• Mighty Mississippi - the river that links and divides the USA
• NEW   Bodie - where the West was once wildest - Visiting a ghost town in the mountains of California.
• America's bald eagles - a story of success . How the emblematic bird of the USA has been saved from extinction.
• Save the Everglades - Florida's unique wetlands are in serious danger.
• California's Water Wars - Larry Wood reports on a critical issue facing Californians.
• Deserts of America - with AUDIO A large part of the western USA is covered by desert, and it is getting larger.
• A town called Sturgis - Mecca for Harley Davidson riders

International themes,  language

• NEW  The electric car revolution, realistic or optimistic?  With interactive worksheet. (technical English)
• NEW     Gandhi - his life and legacy. - with AUDIO - He was one of the most influential people of the 20th century
• NEW     A rose by any other name. - with AUDIO - Words, meaning and political correctness
• Accents and dialects. - with AUDIO - An introduction to varieties of spoken English
• Aeroponics. Agriculture for tomorrow's world. (Technical English)
•  Globalization? What globalization?  It's here to stay, but changes are needed

2. Articles about life in Britain

Britain in general

• NEW  King Charles, the Monarchy and their future Is there a future for the British monarchy?. with AUDIO
• NEW    Guy Fawkes and Bonfire night The nearest thing that Britain has to a National day celebration.
• NEW     The Oxford and Cambridge boat race This great amateur sporting event is almost 200 years old.
• NEW    Just who are the English ? Trying to define Englishness is not a very easy task.
• NEW    Britain - at any cost ? Human traffickers are waiting to exploit people who want to come to the UK.
•  English pub signs  What lies behind the  sometimes strange names of English pubs ?
• Life in Umbridge - Finding a place to live in rural Britain can be hard for ordinary folk.
• Tea and the British - Tea has been Britain's favourite drink for more than two centuries. With AUDIO
• London's Notting Hill Carnival - Europe's biggest street carnival
• Smugglers - an old activity enters a new phase - Smuggling has long been an illicit activity on England's south coast
• Technical : The story of the jet plane
• Technical (hard): Meet Robodog

Britain: people

• NEW    Charles Darwin - a genius remembered with  AUDIO and interactive worksheet. A scientific text for general readers.
• NEW    The Queen who almost wasn't with AUDIO and interactive worksheet. Queen Elibath II, who died in 2022, was not born to be Queen...
• Shakespeare 400 years on  Shakespeare died over 400 years ago, so why is he still so important ? With AUDIO
• Stephen Hawking - the world's greatest mind
• J.R.R. Tolkien - the creator of the Hobbit
• Agatha Christie - She died in 1976, but she's still a worldwide bestseller.
• Technical: Charles Babbage, the father of the computer  (short text).
• Britain's Chinese come out on top - they are the most successful group in modern Britain
• All you need is Love - With AUDIO A true story from Ireland, by Leanne Meyer

Interviews

• Nature / wildlife: the Bird Man of the Isles - an interview from the Scottish isle of Skye.
• NEW    Drugs: Days in the death of Francis X - interview with a heroin addict

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3. Technical English, short stories and word games

Technical English

• NEW   The electric car revolution, realistic or optimistic?  With interactive worksheet. Can the world really convert to electric vehicles by the middle of the century?
• NEW      Aeroponics :   Food for a growing world?
• NEW      GM crops: Frankenstein food?  Are genetically modified crops a huge risk, or the future of agriculture?
• Skiing in the wind  How science and technology help skiers go faster
•  - With AUDIO The story of the jet plane
• Charles Babbage, the father of the computer  (short text).
• Meet Robodog  (hard): 

Advanced English short stories and games

• NEW     A suitable job by Lindsay Townsend. - With AUDIO - a short story from the UK
• NEW     A few good reasons - With AUDIO - an original short story from the USA
• NEW     For Elise - With AUDIO short story from the USA
• Short story: The Car  - With AUDIO - a short story in advanced level English
• Short story: Blue Gum Tree - - With AUDIO - a short story from New Zealand
• Short Story: Lucky Jim - an original short story from the USA, by Walda Cameron
• Language games and puzzles
• Quiz: Famous Americans