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授课内容:选修八第一单元

英语组：吴春霞

Unit 1

A land of diversity Reading-------California

Teaching aims: 1.Help students understand history of the California 2.By reading the text over and over again to finish some exercises in the class Teaching important points: 1.According to the time line to find who came to California and some important events 2.Let students know why we say California is a multicultural state 3.Improve students’ reading ability Teaching difficult points: 1.The translation of some difficult sentences

2.Let students tells if so many people live in California,what problems might arise? 3.Improve students’ reading ability Teaching methods:role-play, individual work,group work,discussion Teaching process: Step1 ：Lead-in Step2 ：pre-reading 1. What’s the text mainly about? A. The history of California.

B. The culture of California. C. The weather of California.

D. The history of the USA. Step3 Reading

1 )Divide the passage into three parts according to the main idea of each part. Part1 (

) Brief introduction to California. Part2 (

) When and why people from different countries moved to California.

Part3 (

) The future of California.

2) Scanning for specific information of each paragraph Para2:1. They were living in California at least __________ ago.

2. They crossed the Bering Strait in the

Arctic to America by means of __________.

3. The situation of native Americans in the 16th century:

1) _________________

2) _________________

3) _________________

4) ________________

Para3: Note down important events and fill in the form.

16th century →two centuries later→in 1846→in 1821

Para4-5: ture or false

1. Today there are about 25,000 Russian-Americans living in and around San Francisco.( ) 2. In 1848, before the American-Mexican war, gold was discovered in California.( )

3. A lot of adventurers achieved their dream of becoming rich.( )

4. California became the thirty-first federal state of the USA in 1850.( )

Para6-8: filling the form Stage

Time

1800S

Event

1860S

Early

1900

1911

Later arrivals

by the 1920s

Late 1900s

1942~1945

Para9:

Stage People

Time

Event

Recent arrivals

Task1: Who came to California?

Task2: When did they come? California

Task3: discussion Why is California such a multicultural state? What problems might arise? Step4: post-reading 1)

list some important events mentioned in the text according to the time 15,000 years ago 16th

century 1821 1846 1848 1850 2)

Summary

With the largest population, California is the ___________ state in the USA. It also __________________

being the most multicultural state in the USA. 15,000 years ago first settlers crossed the Bering Strait ________ America. These people are now known as

_______________. In the 18th century California was ruled by Spain. However, it returned to the USA sovereignty finally. In 1848 gold was __________ in California. People from all over the world came to California _____ the dream of becoming rich, but ______ achieved it. Some died or returned home, but most ________ there to __________ for themselves. Today, Chinese-Americans live in all parts of California, although

________________ have chosen to stay in the China-towns of Los Angeles and San Francisco. People from different parts of the world still immigrate to California, ________ there is a simple mixture of many races and cultures.

Step5. Homework Step6.板书（略）