Unit 1 A land of diversity What can you see in these pictures? Period 1 Warming up

Unit 1 A land of diversity

What can you see in these pictures?

Period 1 Warming up

How much do you know about USA?

General Knowledge Quiz about the USA

Choose the best answer: 1) How many states are there in the USA?___ A. 49 B. 50 C: 51 D: 48 2) The most important and largest river in the United States of America is ___. A. the Ohio River B. the Colorado River C. the Missouri River D. the Mississippi River 3) California is the___ largest state in the USA. A. third B. second C. fourth D. fifth 4) ___ has the largest population in the USA. A. California B. Alaska C. Washington D. Texas

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5) California, a state in the western USA, borders___. A. the Pacific Ocean B. the Indian Ocean C. the Atlantic Ocean D. the Arctic Ocean 6) __ is California’s largest and the nation’s second largest city. A. Sacramento B. Los Angeles C. San Diego D. San Francisco 7) California’s official nickname is the ___. A. Sunflower State B. Golden State C. Land of Opportunity D.Evergreen State 8) California entered the Union on September 9.1850, as the ___ state. A. thirtieth B. thirty-eighth C. thirty-second D. thirty-first

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How many names can you find out?

Ocean on the east coast

Ocean on the west coast

Country to the north of USACountry to the south of USAMountain rang in the west

Great Lakes

Longest river in the USA

Some important cities

Atlantic Ocean

Pacific Ocean

Canada

Mexico

Rocky Mountains

Superior,Michigan,Huron, Erie and Ontario

Mississippi River

New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New Orleans

Match the names with the map.

Atlantic Ocean

Pacific Ocean

Canada

Mexico

Rocky Mountains

Great Lakes

Mississippi River

1)When you look at the title, what so you think of?

2) Why is the USA called a melting pot?

A land of differences. California is a land of great Differences — differences in climate, in landscape and attitude.

Period 2: Pre-readingAnswer the following questions:

There are many immigrants to the USA and there are many cultures and nationalities. So it is a place in which people, ideas, etc of different kinds gradually get mixed together.

What each picture is about and how each one relates to California?

A Native American Indian--

one of the first people to live in

California

A gold miner– the discovery of gold in California created a gold rush which brought people from all over the world to California

A building in Chinatown ,San Francisco– Many Chinese have settled in California and many of them live in Chinatown in San Francisco

Reading

Step1 Read through the passage as quickly as

you can ,and find out the main

idea.

Step 2 Beside each date note down an important event in Californian history.

15,000 years ago 16th century 1821

184618481850

First settlers crossed the Bening Strait from Asia. These people are now known as Native Americans.

Spanish soldiers arrived in South America.

California became part of Mexico.

The US declared war on Mexico.

Gold was discovered in California.

California became the 31st state of the US.

Step 3 Besides each cultural group, write the period in which they first came to California in large numbers.

Cultural groups

Periods Cultural groups

Periods

Russians Japanese

Chinese Cambodians

Africans Koreans

Italians Danish

Jewish Pakistanis

early 1800s

Late 1840s/early 1850s

1800s

Late 1800s

1920s

Early 1900s

From about the 1970s

From about the 1970s

1911

From aboutthe 1970s

Step 4 Why is California in the 21st century such a multicultural community? (Using 3 or 4 sentences to explain. )

The state of California is a multicultural community because European, African and Asian people have been immigration to the state for the last 200 years. Before their arr

Step5 True or False 1. California is the largest state in the USA

and has the largest population. 2. Everybody knows exactly when the first people arrived in what we now know as California. 3. Thousands of the native people in California were killed or forced into slavery after the arrival of the Europeans.

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4. Today over 40% of Americans speak Spanish as a first or second language. 5. Many Chinese-Americans live in the “Chinatowns” of Los Angeles and San Francisco. 6. California has become home to people from Asia, Cambodians , Koreans, Vietnamese and Laotians included.

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Homework

Finish “Learningabout language” on page 4.