TEXAS

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TEXAS

Index

Places to visit

Population (ethnicities, languages, religions, traditions)

EXTRA

Economy: top production

Cities (capital + 1/2 bigger cities)

When did it become a state?

Geography (borders, plains/mountains, lakes, rivers,..)

Nickname of the state

Flag

This flag was born on January 1839

Info

FLAG

Unit 1

WHY THE TEXAS'S FLAg HAS THESE COLORS?

• Lone Star State
• Blue= honesty
• White=force
• red=bravery

1836

1835

TIMELINE

Unit presentation

When did it become a state?

Unit presentation

The Texas become a state on Dicember 1845 in USA but Its republic was born in 1836 in Mexico after the Texan revolution and its first official flags wos born on January 1836

GEOGRAPHY

Unit 3

BORDERS: New Mexico, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mexico and Gluf of Mexico

RIVERS: Rio Grande, Red river and Colorado

LAKES: Canyon lake , lake Linvingstone

MOUNTAINS: Emory Peak, Guadalupe Peak

CAPITAL: Austin

Texas has mixed traditions of Mexico and the USA.

TRADITIONS

POPULATION

Learning sessions

• The population speak two lenguages: English and Spain
• The majority of the population is Catholic, but there is other religions
• The population has European origins but there are also as Spanish origin, Norwegian...

Tradition from Mexico

Tradition from USA

The capital is austin

cities

Learning sessions

Austin is the least characteristic city in Texas, but it is also the most extravagant city in the country. Austin is famuos because the live music is fantastic. Includes country, rock and blues music. in Austin there are strange houses, a cathedral made of garbage in the city and there is a museum dedicated to oddities

other cities

in San Antonio there is the Alamodome, the stadium with 5 floors

Dallas is an industrial and financial center and there is the airport largest and busiest in the world

SAN ANTONIO

DALLAS

cities

Learning sessions

the economy is based on the rubber and plastic manufacturing sector

TOP PRODUCTIONS:

ECONOMY

Learning sessions

cotton

vegetables

fruit

Places to visit

Unit Summary

Palo Duro Canyon

Hamilton Pool Preserve

The Alamo

Big Bend National Park

TV series

• Friday Night Lights
• Houston pronto soccorso
• Young Sheldon

Films

• Alamo - Gli ultimi eroi
• La battaglia di Alamo
• Terminator - Destino oscuro
• Il volto della vendetta

Extra

Unit Summary

• It's situated in Austin
• its inventor is Nikola Tesla and Elon Musk

TESLA

Extra

Unit Summary

Homecoming mum

Before the football game the players wear homecoming mums: large and expensive rosettes

The food

TEX-MEX

In Texas, many meals of Mexican origin are cooked

• Burrito
• Tacos
• Nachos

1836

First flag used only by Texas

• 1824= The firs Mexixan costitution
• The Texans fought at Alamo

1836

The first official flag

• After their independence

1835

The texas was part of Mexico

• Coahuila and Texas