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Vocabulary:
Slang
Cue
Distinctive
Controversy
Abstract
Expressionism
Realism
Playwright
Last time you've learnt the American Culture from the aspects of:
Value
Language
Religion
Fashion Style
Social Norms
Recreation
In this lesson, you are going to embrace more details of these aspects of the American Culture:
Art
American greetings and slangs
Art
1.Literature: 18th and early 19th centuries: took most of its cues from Europe
Famous writers at the time: Nathaniel Hawthorn, Edgar Allan Poe
middle 19th century: formed a distinctive style of American literature
Famous writers at the time: Henry David Thoreau
late 19th century: many great writers shone
Famous writers at the time: Mark Twain, Walt Whitman (poet), Emily Dickinson
11 American writers have won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
the "Great American Novel": Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Edgar Allan Poe
Mark Twain
2.Television:
Three basic types:
Broadcast (free "over-the-air television")
Cable television
Satellite television
Three major commercial television networks:
require subscription
3.Dance:
Great variety in dance
Home of the Lindy Hop, Rock and Roll, and modern square dance
Social dances and concert/performance dances
Traditions of Native American dances
Modern Square Dance
4.Painting and Visual Art:
Early time: history painting and portraits
First well-known school of painting—the Hudson River School (1820)
Paintings of the Great West (on native people living in the West of USA)
Controversy and the modern trends in 20th century
Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and 30s (to challenge racist stereotypes)
Post-WWII: Abstract expressionism, Pop art, Neo-expressionism, Realism, …
5.Theater/Movie:
Based in the Western tradition (borrowed from the performance styles prevalent in Europe)
Broadway productions entertain millions of theatergoers
Famous American playwrights: Edward Albee, August Wilson, Tony Kushner, David Henry
Hwang, John Guare, and Wendy Wasserstein
Slangs
A type of language consisting of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal, are
more common in speech than writing, and are typically restricted to a particular context or
group of people.
American Slang for Greetings:
Hello
Hi
Hey there!
Hi there!
Hey!
How are you?
What's new?
How are you doing?
How's it going?
Goodbye
See you
See you later
Later
On the telephone, you can
say "Talk to you later"
Yes
Yeah (pronounced "ya")
Yup
Sure
You bet
No
Nope
No way
Not a chance
Not in this lifetime
Let's leave
Let's blow this popstand
I'm leaving
I'm out of here
I'm heading out now
Other Stuff:
Instead of VERY, you can use ...
so
-I'm so hungry!
real
-I'm real hungry!
really
-I'm really hungry!
Instead of VERY VERY, you can use ...
totally
-The movie was totally awesome!
Essential American Slang Words:
awesome/cool (when you think something is great)
hang out (go to a place you like and usually spend time with someone you are very familiar
with)
chill out (relax)
wheels (a car)
(be/get) busted (be caught for doing something wrong or illegal)
sitcom (short for "situation comedy": an amusing television drama series about a set of
characters. )
(be) hooked on something (become addicted to something and you can't get enough)
in (used as an adjective: something is in fashion or in trend at the moment)
dunno (short for "I don't know")
Discussion:
How is the American culture affecting the world? (in various aspects such as fashion, TV and
film, food, etc.)
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