课件27张PPT。 Unit 1
A land of diversity
Which countryWhich country do you think
the title refers to?a melting pot in the
southwest
of the USthe 31th stateSan FranciscoLos AngelesThe United StatesCALIFORNIACalifornia2.Main idea for each partFast readingPart I ( ) ___________________Part II ( ) __________________Part III ( ) __________________1.What is the main idea of the passage?Fast reading What is the main idea
of the passage?Climate ?Geography?Diverse population.?√
The history of the immigration to California.
Fast readingMain idea for each partFast readingPart I ( ) ____________________Part II ( ) _____________________Part III ( ) _____________________Para.1Brief introduction to CaliforniaPara 2--9Immigrants to CaliforniaPara. 10Future of Californiacareful reading How did the first people travel to California ?2. Why is there strong Spanish influence in California?3. How many Russian-Americans living in and around San Francisco?4. When was gold discovered?
5. Who went to California to search for gold?6. In which two cities are Chinatowns?
7. What brought even lager numbers to California in the 1860s?
8. What people are mentioned in these two parts? Careful reading
Answer the questions.Part I Brief IntroductionCalifornia is the _____largest state of the USA but has the ________population and it is also the most __________state in the USA.multiculturalthirdlargest Careful reading
Part II ImmigrantsNative Americans : How did the first people travel to California ?They crossed _______________ in the Arctic to America by means of ____________ which existed in prehistoric times.the Bering Straita land bridgeThe Spanish 2. Why is there a strong Spanish influence in California?Because it was once ruled by
Spain in the 18th century.Russians 3. How many Russian-Americans
living in and around San
Francisco?About 25,000.Gold miners 4. When was gold discovered?
5. Who went to California to search for gold?South Americans, people from the United States and adventurers from Europe and Asia.In 1848.
In Los Angeles
and San Francisco. 6. In which two cities are Chinatowns?Later arrivals and most recent arrivals The building of the railways
from the west to the east coast.7. What brought even larger
numbers to California
in the 1860s?
8. What people are mentioned in these two parts? Chinese, Italians, Danish, Japanese, Africans, some other Europeans ( including Jewish) and Asians (including Cambodians, Koreans, Vietnamese, Laotians, Indians and Pakistanis)
Part III The future People from different parts of the world still immigrate to California , attracted by _________and _______. It is believed that before long there will be only a mixture of ______ and ______.the climatelifestyleracesculturesWhy is California called
a melting pot ? DiscussionPick out the difficult language points in the reading text.Homework