What are Americans like?

Here is the text from our lesson. It is about Americans and the way they are.

Tady je text, se kterým jsme pracovali v hodině. Je o Američanech a o tom, jací jsou.

Americans come in all colours, have all types of *religions, and speak many languages from all over the world.

Americans are very *independent and like to be *different from each other.

66% of Americans are *overweight, 37% of those are *obese.

Americans call most people by their first name or *nickname.

Americans smile a lot and talk easily to *strangers.

Americans love their pets, sometimes more than they love people.

*Vocabulary
religions // náboženství
independent // nezávislý
different // odlišný
overweight // nadváha
obese // obézní
nickname // přezdívka
stranger // cizí člověk




Sources:

PRICE, Planaria J. a Euphronia. AWAKUNI. Life in the USA: an immigrant's guide to understanding Americans [online]. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009 [cit. 2017-04-10]. ISBN 978-0-472-03304-1. Dostupné z: https://www.press.umich.edu/309302/life_in_the_usa/?s=description
* The pictures are borrowed from publically available sources. All links to the picture sources are included in the bibliography of the diploma thesis.
** The vocabulary translations and transcriptions are borrowed from Oxford studijní slovník: výkladový slovník angličtiny s českým překladem. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-19-430655-3.