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American Life (Penguin Joint Venture Readers)

by Vicky Shipton

Series: Penguin Readers (Level 2)

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"Most people around the world today know something about American life. The United States is a big country. Not all Americans are the same! In this book you will see the many faces of American life."--Back cover.
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This book looks like an article of newspaper and has many pictures,so I enjoyed reading it.
Through this book,I could understand about American culture.
And I knew cultural difference between America and Japan.
To my surprise,in America,people can get a driver's license!!
Some high school students drive to school. ( )
  Atsushi.N | Jul 16, 2010 |
I was amased that Americans eat 2000000000 hot dogs in
one year.I could know about New York.
I like Americans movies,especially Jurassik park.
I want to eat american foods in America. ( )
  Hironari.K | Jul 10, 2010 |
This is a book that introduces the United States.For example this introduces about sports,music and movie and so on.There are quiz and comic in this book.I feel that reading was fun,not boring.So I have read with surprising swiftness.I think that even a person not good at English can read fun. ( )
  Runa01 | Jun 9, 2010 |
This book is not a story same as the book "LONDON"
This tell us about America.
And it is interesting for me to have a quiz style.
But each explanations is too short.

I am interested in about baseball and basketball.
And its famous player Mark McGwire and Michael Jordan. ( )
  tokuchi77 | Jan 20, 2010 |
This book likes a brochure,nos a story.
It has some pictures and graphs.
So It was easy for readers to understand the content .
There are some topic in this book.
American history,sports,cars movies and so on.
I was interested in Sports topic.
Sports topic includes content about baseball,basketball,football,hockey.
I have played the basketball in my childhood.
So,especially I was interested in basketball.
I knew the origin of basketball.
History of the US is shorter than the UK or some other countries.
But I think the US have interesting culture and history.
I`d like to travel to the US! ( )
  takumisa | Jan 12, 2010 |
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"Most people around the world today know something about American life. The United States is a big country. Not all Americans are the same! In this book you will see the many faces of American life."--Back cover.

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