高二英语 选修八 unit 1 第一课时 Warming up & reading
Teaching Goal:
Enable the Ss to learn sth about the USA
Enable the Ss to talk about some places with frequent english Teaching important and difficult points Practice some important words and expressions Part 1 Warming up
Look at the warming-up part on page 1 and fill in the map(refer to the ppt.) What do you know about the USAlet’s have a small test. 1. Which flag is American flag
2. Which city is the capital of the USA A. New York B. Washington C. Los Angeles
3. Which stands for the USA
National Emblems（国徽）
4. How many states are there in the USA doesn’t belong to the USA Part 2 Reading. Fast reading
state in the USA has the largest Population
2. Why is California called the most multicultural state in the US many kinds of people are mentioned in this text Detail reading Native Americans ? :
? did they come from:
? happened to the native Americans in the sixteenth century
Native Americans
The Spainsh
16th century 18th century in 1821 in 1846 Influence:today over 40% of Californians speak Spainish as a first or second language
Russians & Gold Miners Do some T or F questions:
the early 1800s, Russian fur trappers began settling in California. 1848, before the Amerian-Mexican war, gold was discovered in California. lot of adventures achieved their dream of becoming rich.
4.California become the thirty-first state of the United states of Amerian in 1850.
Later arrivals Stage People Time Event
Africans Chinese Moved from Mexico Build the railway Farmed Established a town film industry Fished and made wine Worked in ship& Japanese Later Denmark arrivals Jewish Italians Africans 1942-1945 aircraft industries
Recent arrivals Stage People Indians, Pakistanis Recent Cambodians arrivals Koreans Vietnamese Laotians Different Future parts Look at the pictures below. Each illustrates something about California. Discuss in groups what each picture means to you.
Future Immigrated Immigrated industry Time Event Worked in Computer native American Indian was standing beside a camp .It seemed that he or she felt very happy. Maybe he or she had a good harvest.
was a gold miner. He was panning gold. He looked not only thin and weak, but also thirsty and tired. It was difficult for them to achieve the dream of becoming rich. building in Chinatown
Many Chinese have settled in California and many of them live in Chinatown in San Francisco.
人教版高中英语选修八Unit 1第1课时 教案
