Lesson1GlobalWarming.ppt

Unit1Alandofdiversity Star SpangledBanner 50stars Eachstarrepresentsonestate 13stripes theoriginal13states Blue loyaltyandjustice Red courage White freedom TheWhiteHouse TheStatueofLiberty istheexecutivemansion 官邸 ofthePresidentoftheUnitedStates ThestatueoflibertyisstandingonasmallislandinNewYorkHarbor symbolizingthespiritof oftheUSA TheWhiteHouse independence Thelanguagetheymainlyuseis Mountainrangeinthewestis ThelongestriverintheUSAis theMississippiRiver theRockyMountains English Someimportantcities NewYork WashingtonD C LosAngeles SanFrancisco Chicago NewOrleans Houston Philadelphia Miami Atlanta Seattle Denver Kansas Detroit Boston WhocannamesomeimportantcitiesoftheUSA Warmingup LookatthemapoftheUSA Workwithyourgrouptowriteonthemapthenamesofasmanyofthefollowingasyoucan Compareyouranswerswithothergroups oceanontheeastcoastoceanonthewestcoastcountrytothenorthofUSAcountrytothesouthofUSACalifornia mountainrangeinthewestGreatLakeslongestriverintheUSAsomeimportantcities Seattle SanFrancisco LosAngeles Denver Houston NewOrieans Miami Atlanta Boston NewYork Philadelphig Washington D C Appalachian RockyMountains Mexico Chieago Detroit St Louis Canada AtlanticOcean PacificOcean theMississippi California Superior Michigan Erie Huron Ontario TheUSAliesin borderingboththe Oceanandthe Ocean between and Thereare statesintheUS Forty eightofthemareinthesingleregion while and arenotcontiguouswithanyoftheotherstates theNorthAmerica Atlantic Pacific Canada Mexico fifty Alaska Hawaii IfyouhaveachancetogototheUSA wherewouldyouprefertovisit CaliforniaorWashingtonDCorothercities Why Let sappreciatesomepicturesaboutCalifornia Californiacoast Hoovertower Californiasunset HotelCalifornia California AndresCanyon LakeTahoe DeathValley Ithasanareaof411 000squarekilometers AnditisoneoftheAmericanstatesofthelargestpopulation withthemostdevelopedeconomy Californiaisamazing Thepleasantweather longbeachandgracefulnaturallandscapemakethetourismprosperous HowiseachpicturerelevanttothehistoryofCalifornia NativeAmericans oneofthefirstpeopletoliveinCalifornia Goldminers thediscoveryofgoldinCaliforniacreatedagoldrushwhichbroughtpeoplefromallovertheworldtoCalifornia AbuildinginChinatown SanFrancisco ManyChinesehavesettledinCaliforniaandmanyofthemliveinChinatowninSanFrancisco NativeAmericans SomepicturesaboutthehistoryofCalifornia GoldRushPeriod 1 Californiaisthe largeststateintheUSA A thirdB secondC fourthD fifth 2 California astateinthewesternUSA borders thePacificOceanB theIndianOceanC theAtlanticOceanD theArcticOcean GeneralknowledgequizaboutCalifornia 3 isCalifornia slargestandthenation ssecondlargestcity SacramentoB LosAngelesC SanDiegoD SanFrancisco 4 California sofficialnicknameisthe SunflowerStateB GoldenStateC LandofOpportunityD EvergreenState 5 hasthelargestpopulationintheUSA A CaliforniaB AlaskaC WashingtonD Texas 6 CaliforniaenteredtheUniononSeptember9th1850 asthe state A thirtiethB thirty eighthC thirty secondD thirty first Thetextisaboutthebrief ofCalifornia whichfocusesonthesettlementofthestate history Readthetextquicklyandcompleteitsmainidea Skimming 15 000yearsago FirstsettlerscrossedtheBeringStraitintheArctictoAmerica ThesepeoplearenowknownasNativeAmericans 16thcentury SpanishsoldiersarrivedinSouthAmerica BesideeachtimenotedownanimportanteventinCalifornianhistory CaliforniabecamepartofMexico TheUSdeclaredwaronMexico GoldwasdiscoveredinCalifornia Californiabecamethe31ststateoftheUS 1821 1846 1848 1850 Spanish Russians Africans Chinese Italians Danish BesideeachculturalgroupwiththeperiodinwhichtheyfirstcametoCaliforniainlargenumbers intheearly16thcentury early1800s 1800s late1840s early1850s inthelate19thcentury 1911 Jewish Japanese Koreans Cambodians Vietnamese Pakistanis 20thcentury 1920s inmorerecentdecades fromaboutthe1970s fromaboutthe1970s fromaboutthe1970s I Readthetextcarefullyandfillintheblanks 15 000 landbridge slavery Europeans religious 16th Russian Americans hunters gold Europe GoldRush fishermen Denmark Jewish farmers 1800s ship Asia Indians computer 1 CaliforniaisthethirdlargeststateinUSAbuthasthelargestpopulation 2 In1848 beforetheAmerican Mexicanwar goldwasdiscoveredinCalifornia 3 ThenativepeoplesufferedgreatlyafterthearrivalofEuropeansinthe16thcentury F T T II TrueorFalse 4 Over40 ofCaliforniansspeakSpanishasafirstlanguage 5 Inthe1800s RussianhuntersbegansettlinginCalifornia T T 6 Alotofpeoplerushingforgoldlosttheirlivesorwentbackhome butmostofthemremainedinCaliforniatomakealivingforthemselvesinthenewtownsoronfarms T 7 Comparedwiththeperiodofgoldrush lessChineseimmigratetoCaliforniaduringtheperiodofbuildingtherailnetworkfromthewesttotheeastcoast 8 Bythe1920s thefilmindustrywaswellestablishedinCalifornia T F 9 Itisthecomputerindustrysinceitsbeginningin1970sthathasattractedIndiansandPakistanistoCalifornia 10 WithmoreimmigrantscomingtoCalifornianowandthen itisbelievedthatbeforelongtherewillbeaevengreatermixofnationalitiesinthisstate T T WhyisCaliforniasuchamulticulturalcommunity Whatproblemsdoyouthinkmightarise Explaininyourownwords Writethreeorfoursentences Compareyouranswerswithothersinyourclass ThestateofCaliforniaisamulticulturalcommunitybecauseEuropean AfricanandAsianpeoplehavebeenmovingintothestateforthelast200years Itisthismixofpeopleswiththeirowncustoms cultureandfoodthat