Theater, music and opera

John F. Kennedy center for the performing arts
• Concerts, operas, ballets,
• 4 theaters
• the Opera house
• Concert hall ( home of National symphony orchestra )
• American film institute

National theater
• Established 1835, Pennsylvania avenue
• Current and past Broadway hits ( musicals )

Arena stage complex
• Traditional and experimental production

Ford’s theater
• Lincoln was killed there by the actor J. W. Booth
• Museum life and death of A. L. in the basement
• On opposite side the house, where A. L. died

Schools
• Georgetown university
• First Catholic institution of higher learning in the country
• In Georgetown
• George Washington university

Georgetown
• Tabacco shipping port
• After owner the plantations
• Residential district
• Historical house
• Foreign embassy
• Shopping center
• shopping mall – George park mall, flee markets
• hotels and restaurants
• spec. crab meat ( = sea food )
• for visiting restaurant you need dress code ( one-piece dress women, men dark suit with tie )
• 3 kinds of restaurants
• budget ( the cheapest )
• inexpensive
• moderate
• the best disco
• drinking age – 21 years

Mount Vernon
• 17 miles south
• home of George Washington
• found it his grandfather (a plantation owner )
• on right side of Potomac river
• garden vegetables and flowers
• slave quarters
• Washington and his wife are buried there

Alexandria
• Born place G. Washington and R. E. Lee
• Colonial port town
• Architecture reminds architecture of Georgetown
• Craft galleries – paintings
• Old town trolley – cars pushed by horse
• Port – historical ships

Bibliography:
1. Tomáš Chudý, Jana Chudá: Some basic facts about the English speaking countries
2. My own notices from English lessons – Mrs. Bowleyová