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The colonial era (the United States) - The first successful English colony was founded at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. A few years later. English Puritans came to America to escape religious persecution for their opposition to the Church of England. In 1620, the Puritans founded Plymouth Colony in ...

The Great Depression in the USA - By 1932 thousands of American banks and over 100.000 businesses had failed. Industrial production was cut in half, wages had decreased 60 percent, and one out of every four workers was unemployed. That year Fra...

History of the United States-The late 19th century - Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, depriving America of leader uniquely qualified by background and temperament to heal the wounds left by the Civil War. - His successor, Andrew Johnson,...

WAR AND PEACE IN THE USA - When World War I erupted in Europe in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson urged a policy of strict American neutrality. Germany's declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare against all ships bound for Allied ports u...

World War II in the USA Neutrality was the initial American response to the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939. But the bombing of Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii by the Japanese in December 1941 brought the United States into the war, first against Japan and then against its allies, Germany and I...

COLLOCATIONS dead, colloquial LANGUAGE damaging (niszczący opinie), informative REPORT animated (ożywiona), heated (gorąca) DISCUSSION kind, profound (serious, głębokie) WORDS political, rousing (full of emotions, pobudzająca) SPEECH confidential (secret, poufny), pertinent (relevant, trafn...

CLOTHES Scruffy jeans - powycierane jeansy Lounge suit - garnitur wizytowy tie-dye T-shirt - z kolorowym nadrukiem pin-striped suit - prążkowany garnitur trench coat - trencz bomber jacket - pilotka baggy cords - zwisające bojówki = workowate ...

MORSE CODE Back-up plan - plan zapasowy (awaryjny) Seemingly tedious procedure - apparently boring/long lasting process (pozornie nużąca) To instantly connect sb = to connect sb immediately (natychmiast) To act up - not work properly (psuć się) = to malfunction To grope around - to go when you ...

PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES argue about sth - klócic się o coś boast about - chwalić się czymś lecture sb about his bad habits - robić komuś uwagi be excited about sth be intent on - być zdecydowanym by coś zrobić (a / to) lecture on Politics act on sth - działać zgodnie z czymś experiment on sth ins...

COMMUNICATION Get the message across efficiently - skutecznie przekazać wiadomość To convey a message - make sure that sb understands (przekazać wiadomość) Snail mail - traditional mail Versatile - universal, multi functional