人教版选修8-unit1-Reading.ppt

人教课标高二选修8Unit1 Unit1Alandofdiversity Warmingup NorthAmerica SouthAmerica Africa Europe Asia Oceania Antarctica PacificOcean PacificOcean AtlanticOcean IndianOcean ArcticOcean Namethesevencontinentsandfouroceans 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 HowmuchyouknowabouttheUSA TheUSAliesin borderingboththe Oceanandthe Ocean between and Thereare statesintheUS 48ofthemareinthesingleregion while and arenotcontiguouswithanyoftheotherstates theNorthAmerica Atlantic Pacific Canada Mexico fifty Alaska Hawaii Aquiz Superior Michigan Erie Huron Ontario Star SpangledBanner 50stars Eachstarrepresentsonestate 13stripes theoriginal13states Blue loyaltyandjustice Red courage White freedom TheWhiteHouse TheStatueofLiberty istheexecutivemansionofthePresidentoftheUnitedStates 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 IfyouhaveachancetogototheUSA wherewouldyouprefertovisit CaliforniaorWashingtonDCorothercities Why Let sappreciatesomepicturesaboutCalifornia Californiacoast Hoovertower Californiasunset HotelCalifornia California AndresCanyon LakeTahoe DeathValley TheDeathValley Ithasanareaof411 000squarekilometers AnditisoneoftheAmericanstatesofthelargestpopulation withthemostdevelopedeconomy Californiaisamazing Thepleasantweather longbeachandgracefulnaturallandscapemakethetourismprosperous HowiseachpicturerelevanttothehistoryofCalifornia NativeAmericanIndian oneofthefirstpeopletoliveinCalifornia Agoldminer 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 CaliforniaenteredtheUniononSeptember9 1850 asthe state A thirtiethB thirty eighthC thirty secondD thirty first Thetextisaboutthebrief ofCalifornia whichfocusesonthesettlementofthestate history Readthetextquicklyandcompleteitsmainidea Skimming I Readthetextcarefullyandfillintheblanks 15 000 landbridge slavery Europeans religious 16th Russian Americans hunters gold Europe GoldRush fishermen Denmark Jewish farmers 1800s ship Asia Indians computer II Choosethebestanswer WhichofthefollowingisNOTtrueabouttheGoldRush OnlyafewpeoplebecamerichintheGoldRush B ManypeoplediedintheGoldRush C IthappenedduringtheAmerican Mexicanwar D SouthAmericanswereamongthefirsttoarrivetolookforgold C 1 CaliforniaisthethirdlargeststateinUSAbuthasthelargestpopulation 2 In1848 beforetheAmerican Mexicanwar goldwasdiscoveredinCalifornia 3 ThenativepeoplesufferedgreatlyafterthearrivalofEuropeansinthe16thcentury F T T III TrueorFalse 4 Over40 ofCaliforniansspeakSpanishasafirstlanguage 5 Inthe1800s RussianhuntersbegansettlinginCalifornia T F 6 Alotofpeoplerushingforgoldlosttheirlivesorwentbackhome butmostofthemleftinCaliforniatomakealivingforthemselvesinthenewtownsoronfarms T 7 Comparedwiththeperiodofgoldrush lessChineseimmigratetoCaliforniaduringtheperiodofbuildingtherailnetworkfromthewesttotheeastcoast 8 Bythe1920s thefilmindustrywaswellestablishedinCalifornia T F 9 Itisthecomputerindustrysinceitsbeginningin1970sthathasattractedIndiansandPakistanistoCalifornia 10 WithmoreimmigrantscomingtoCalifornianowandthen itisbelievedthatbeforelongtherewillbeaevengreatermixofnationalitiesinthisstate T T WhyisCaliforniainthe21stcenturysuchamulticulturalcommunity Explaininyourownwords Writethreeorfoursentences Compareyouranswerwithothersinyourclass ThestateofCaliforniaisamulticulturalcommunitybecauseEuropean AfricanandAsianpeoplehavebeenmovingintothestateforthelast200years Itisthismixofpeopleswiththeirowncustoms cultureandfoodthathavegivenCaliforniaitsmulticulturalflavor Problemsthatmightariseincludeinterculturalrivalryorcompetition discriminationormisunderstanding ItistothecreditofCaliforniansthatsuchproblemsdonotariseveryoften Writingstyleandtechniques Thepassageisahistoricalnarrativearticle ItintroducesbrieflythemainhistoryeventsofdifferentperiodsoftimesinCalifornia Italsodescribeswhen howandwhythepeoplefromdifferentpartsoftheworldimmigrated toCalifornia TheshorthistoryofCaliforniaisdescribedclearlyandaccurately whichgivesthereadersadeepimpression Writingcharacteristic 1 Thetextisarrangedwellintheorderoftime 2 Thetextcatchesthefeatureofpeopleandthingsandusesadjec