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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 D B A A
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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.
