The USA And, of course. Americans love to shop: the sup first appeared in America, and now many shops are twenty-four hours a day some of the biggest sho pping centres in the world are in the USA Mall of America in Minneapolis has over 500 shops and covers 1.25 mill ion square metres. You could put thirty-two Boeing 747 planes into it! Americans have to pay if they visit a doctor or go to hospital. but they do not usually pay to go to school. Schools, like the laws, are different from state to state, but in most places, everyone goes to school for about twelve years. The years are called des': grades 1 to 5 are elementary school', 6 to 8 are "middle school', and 9 to 12 high school: About 85 per cent of students finish high school and celebrate with a party known as a "prom They also make a year book this has photos of all the students in their class and some information about each person. Films like American Graffiti and The Breakfast Club have shown what life is like at an American high school. About half the students who finish high school go on to study for another two or four years. Harvard and Yale in the east and Berkeley in California are among America's famous universities. Most Americans enjoy sports, and baseball, basketball, and football are popular American football is a very different game from European football; players carry the ball more than they use their feet. But the favourite sport in the USA is baseball. The film Field of Dreams tells the story of a farmer from lowa in the mid-west