Using LanguageⅡ教案1

选修8 Unit 1 A land of diversity

Period 1 Reading Teaching goals Enable the students to talk about things about the USA. Help the students learn the huge diversity of races and cultures in America, especially in California. Teaching important and difficult points Learn the huge diversity of races and cultures in California. Teaching methods Fast and careful reading; asking and answering activity; individual, pair or group work. Teaching aids A map, a blackboard and a computer Teaching procedures Step 1 Warming up. Ask the students to describe what they learn about the USA. Group work: look at the map of the USA with your group. Write on the map the names of as many of the following as you can. Compare your names with other groups. Step 2 Pre-reading Ask the students to tell things about California including its location, size, population, economy, history etc. What do you learn about California? Show the students some pictures and encourage students not only to say what each picture is about but how each one relates to California. Step 3 Fast reading Read through the passage and get the main idea. Reading comprehension. Ask the students the following questions: When you look at the title, what so you think of ? A land of differences. California is a land of great differences —

differences in climate, in landscape and attitude. 2) Why is the USA called a melting pot?

There are many immigrants to the USA and there are many cultures and nationalities. So it is a place in which people, ideas, etc of different kinds gradually get mixed together. Beside each date note down an important event in Californian history.

15,000 years ago First settlers crossed

the Bening Strait from

Asia. These people are

now known as Native

Americans.

16th centure Spanish soldiers

arrived in

South America. 1821 California

became

part of Mexico. 1850California

became the 31st

state of the US. 1848 Gold was

discovered

in California. 1846 The US declared

war on Mexico.

Step 4 Detail reading

Beside each cultural group , write the period in which they first came to California in large numbers. Cultural groups Periods Russians Chinese Africans Italians Jewish early 1800s Late 1840s/early 1850s 1800s Late 1800s 1920s Cultural groups Periods Japanese Cambodians Koreans Danish Pakistanis Early 1900s From about the 1970s From about the 1970 1911 From about the 1970s Step 5 After reading

Why is California in the 21st century such a multicultural community? (Using 3 or 4 sentences to explain. ) Step 6 Homework Finish “Learning about language”

on page 4.