(共25张PPT)
Unit 1 A land of diversity
California
California
How each picture is relevant to the history of California?
Native American Indian—one of the first people to live in California.
Pre-reading
Native California Indians
A gold miner—the discovery of gold in California created a gold rush which brought people from all over the world to California.
California gold miners around 1849
A building in Chinatown, San Francisco—Many Chinese have settled in California and many of them live in Chinatown in San Francisco.
Chinatowns in California
Reading Comprehension I
Skimming:
The passage focuses on the ______.
A. population of California
B. customs and languages of California
C. people of California
D. history of California
2. No specific group is mentioned in ____.
A. NATIVE AMERICANS
B. GOLD MINERS
C. THE FUTURE
D. LATER ARRIVALS
1.California is the largest state in the USA and has the largest population.
2.The native Americans are treated well after the arrival of Europeans.
3.Of the first Spanish to go to California, the majority were religious men.
Reading Comprehension II
Skimming:
the third largest
True or False
suffered greatly
4. In the early 1800s, Russian hunters began settling in California.
5.Duing Gold Rush Period, many achieved their dream of being rich.
6.It is believed that soon there will be only a mixture of many races and cultures.
True or False
few
Russians
Later Arrivals
people
The Spanish
Most Recent Arrivals
Native Americans
How many kinds of people are mentioned in this text?
Gold Miners
Native Americans
1.Time:
2.Where did they come from:
3.What happened in the sixteenth century?
Native
Americans
15000 years ago
from Asian to Alaska
were killed by European
were forced into slavery
died from the disease
survived the terrible times
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The Spanish
Fill in the form:(note down an important events)
16th century 18th century
in 1846 in 1821
Spanish soldiers
arrived
and took their land
California was
ruled
by Spain
California became
part of Mexico
Mexico gave California
to the United States
Influence:
today over 40% of Californians speak Spanish as a first or second language
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Russians & Gold Miners
Do some T or F questions:
1.In the early 1800s, Russian hunters began settling in California.
2.In 1848, before the American-Mexican war, gold was discovered in California.
3.There are about 25,000 Russian-Americans living in San Francisco.
4.California become the thirty-first state of the United states of America in 1850.
after
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and around San Francisco
Stage People Time Event
Later arrivals Africans 1800s
Chinese 1860s
Italians Late 1800s
Denmark 1911
Jewish By 1920s
Japanese Early 20th
Africans 1942~ 1945
Moved from Mexico
Built the railway
Farmed
Established a town
Developed industry
Fished and made wine
Worked in ship&
aircraft industry
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Stage People Time Event
Recent arrivals Indians
Pakistanis 1970s
Cambodians
Koreans
Vietnamese Recent
decades
Future Different parts of the world
Future
Worked in
computer industry
Immigrated
Immigrated
Summary
California is _______________state in the USA and it also has the distinction of being the most _____________state in the USA. The first settlers crossed _______________from ____and arrived in California. The _______________suffered greatly after the arrival of Europeans in the _____century. In the 18th century, __________was ruled by _____ until _________the people of Mexico gained their independence from Spain. California then became part of________. But after the American-Mexican war in 1846, California was given back to the USA.
the third largest
multicultural
the Bering Strait
Asia
native Americans
16th
California
Spain
1821
Mexico
In 1848, in California gold was__________, which _________people from all over the world to arrive there to achieve their dreams of______________. In 1850, California became the _____state of the USA as a ____________society. Attracted by the__________________, more and more people from different parts of the world having been _________________California, including Asians, Africans, Americans and Europeans. In the near future, California will become ____________many races and cultures _______ any major racial or cultural groups.
discovered
attracted
becoming rich
31st
multicultural
climate and lifestyle
immigrating to
a mixture of
without
Russians:___________
Italians:_____________________
Africans:___________
Chinese:_______________________
early 1800s
in the late 19th century
late 1840s / early 1850s
1800s
Review the period of each cultural group,
in which they first came to California in
large numbers.
Spanish:______________________
in the early 16th century
Japanese:__________________________
Pakistanis:____________________
Danish:________
Koreans:____________________
Cambodians:____________________
beginning of the 20th century
1911
from about the 1970s
from about the 1970s
from about the 1970s
Jewish:________
1920s
Vietnamese:_____________________
in more recent decades
Why is California in the 21st century such a multicultural community? Have a discussion with your group members.
Think?
The state of California is a multicultural community because European, African and Asian people have been immigrating to the state for the last 200 years. Before their arrival, Native American people had lived there for thousands of years. People from all over the world are still coming to settle in California because of its good climate and the lifestyle it offers.
Thank you!