Учебный информационный проект по английскому языку "Лос-Анджелес"

Государственное казенное общеобразовательное учреждение Свердловской области «Екатеринбургская школа-интернат «Эверест»

Учебный информационный проект

по английскому языку

Лос-Анджелес

Выполнила: ученица 10а класса

Пономарёва Анастасия

Руководитель: Берлет И. В.

Екатеринбург, 2016

Los Angeles

By Ponomaryova Anastasiya

Yekaterinburg, 2016

Цель:

Ознакомление с историей и достопримечательностями

Лос-Анжелеса.

задачи:

1. Поиск информации

2. Анализ информации

3. Работа над проектом

4. Представление результата в форме презентации MS Power Point

Nicknames for Los Angeles

Part I

Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California is the second largest city in population, after New York City. Los Angeles has several nicknames. One is simply the city’s initials, L.A. It is also called the City of Angels because Los Angeles means “the angels” in Spanish.

Los Angeles often has warm, sunny weather. So another nickname is City of Flowers and Sunshine. New York is called The Big Apple. So Los Angeles is sometimes called The Big Orange because of the fruit that grows in that city’s warm climate.

The American motion picture and television industries are based in Los Angeles. So it is not surprising that it is called The Entertainment Capital of the World. Many films are made in the area of Los Angeles called Hollywood. Millions of people visit the area. No trip to Los Angeles is complete without seeing the word «Hollywood» spelled out in huge letters on a hillside.

Another nickname for Los Angeles is La-La Land, using the first letters of Los and Angeles. This means a place that is fun and not serious, and maybe even out of touch with reality.

The city of Los Angeles is part of Los Angeles County. There are many smaller cities in the county. Beverly Hills, with its rich people, is one of them. So is Pasadena, with its Rose Parade each New Year’s Day. So are the coastal cities of Santa Monica and Malibu, where people like to ride surfboards on the Pacific Ocean waves.

Government

Part 2

Urban Controls include the mayor and city council. In February 2011 he held the post of mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. The City Council consists of 15 members elected by the population of 15 districts of the city. Also, residents of Los Angeles elected City Attorney and the City Controller.

The main agency responsible for law and order, a police department of the city of Los Angeles. At the same time, the city has a number and more police agencies: The Office of Public Safety, is responsible for the safety of municipal facilities, port police and airport police.

HISTORY

Part 3

In the coastal areas, is now occupied by the Los Angeles, in the XVI century and the Chumash Indians lived Tongwa. The first European to hit the beach in the area of the current Los Angeles in 1542 on two ships "San Salvador" and "La Victoria", was the explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo.

Sailed from La Navidad (Mexico) July 27, 1542, Cabrillo landed in the bay of San Diego on 28 September. While on shore there was Young Indian village-Na. About his swimming Rodriguez Cabrillo recorded in the log, which brought him the pilot, and now it is stored in one of the archives of Seville (Spain).

In 1771, another missionary Junipero Serra founded the mission at this place, named after the archangel Gabriel. By that time, in present-day Los Angeles, there were about 30 settlements Tongwa Indians, where about 3 thousand people.

September 4, 1781, at the insistence of both Californias Governor Felipe de Neve, near the mission of a group of Spanish colonists, consisting of 46 people, the village was founded under the name: "The settlement of the Virgin Mary, Queen of Angels."

A few decades a new settlement was only a small town, but by 1820 it was already the largest secular settlement in California: 650 people lived here.

After the proclamation of the independence of Mexico Los Angeles short duration included in its composition.

After the defeat of Mexico in the Mexican-American War, the city moved to the United States on a peace treaty in 1848. In 1850, Los Angeles received official city status.

In 1876, construction of the railway was completed before the Los Angeles area. Citrus fruit soon became the basis of the local economy. In 1892, near the town of oil deposits have been discovered. In 1913, William Mulholland completed the construction of the aqueduct that provided water growing Los Angeles.

Since the 1920s in Los Angeles, rapidly began to develop the aviation industry and to open the studio. In 1932 the city received 10 Olympic Games.

Start of the Second World War gave a new impetus to the development of the city. During this period, the city has moved a number of German scientists, culture and art, fled from the Nazis.

In the postwar years, the city grew and developed rapidly in breadth; built numerous roundabouts, skyscrapers. In 1984 in Los Angeles, he was again held summer Olympics in which athletes from socialist countries did not participate.

Religion

Part 4

According to the 2000 denomination Los Angeles County numbered (the total county population was 6684.7 thousand people.)

• Catholics - 3806.4 thousand people and 278 religious communities.
• Jews - 564.7 thousand people, and 202 religious communities;.
• Southern Baptist Convention (evangelicals) - 111.6 thousand people, and 312 religious communities.
• Mormons - 97.4 thousand people and 239 religious communities.
• Muslims - 92.9 thousand people and 48 religious communities.
• The Armenian Apostolic Church - approx. 37 thousand peoples.

Areas of Greater Los Angeles

Part 5

Total in Los Angeles stands out more than 80 areas, the main of which is called:

Centre;

East Los Angeles;

South Los Angeles;

South Bay Harbour (South Bay / Harbor);

Hollywood;

Mid-Wilshire;

Westside (which includes West Los Angeles and Santa Monica, and West Hollywood);

San Fernando Valley.

Thank for your attention!

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http://polyglotmobile.ru/listening/words-stories-part-2/nicknames-los-angeles /

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