Book8 Unit1 Reading ppt课件

Book8Unit1Alandofdiversity Reading Warmingup 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 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 California AndresCanyon LakeTahoe DeathValley Californiaisamazing Thepleasantweather longbeachandgracefulnaturallandscapemakethetourismprosperous AbuildinginChinatown SanFrancisco ManyChinesehavesettledinCaliforniaandmanyofthemliveinChinatowninSanFrancisco NativeAmericans SomepicturesaboutthehistoryofCalifornia HowiseachpicturerelevanttothehistoryofCalifornia NativeAmericans oneofthefirstpeopletoliveinCalifornia GoldRushPeriod Goldminers thediscoveryofgoldinCaliforniacreatedagoldrushwhichbroughtpeoplefromallovertheworldtoCalifornia 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 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 Itisthecomputerindustrysinceitsbeginningin1970sthathasattractedIndiansandPakistanistoCalifornia 8 WithmoreimmigrantscomingtoCalifornianowandthen itisbelievedthatbeforelongtherewillbeaevengreatermixofnationalitiesinthisstate T T WhyisCaliforniasuchamulticulturalcommunity Whatproblemsdoyouthinkmightarise Explaininyourownwords Writethreeorfoursentences Compareyouranswerswithothersinyourclass ThestateofCaliforniaisamulticulturalcommunitybecauseEuropean AfricanandAsianpeoplehavebeenmovingintothestateforthelast200years Itisthismixofpeopleswiththeirowncustoms cultureandfoodthathavegivenCaliforniaitsmulticulturalflavor Problemsthatmightariseincludeinterculturalrivalryo