Unit 1 a land of diversity教材分词与重组本单元的主题是：一个地区的文化多元现象。通过两篇课文，一篇是 reading 部分的 California,重点介绍加利福尼亚的移民历史；一篇是 reading and writing 部分的 Georges diary, 重点展示了 George 眼中的加利福尼亚，进而向我们展示加利福尼亚州的文化多元现象。从而我们可以以加利福尼亚为例，通过想象与推理了解文化多元(multicultural)现象。本单元的语法为：名词性从句，是对这个语法模块的复习与升华。Period 1: warming-up and reading用一副美国地图启发学生运用已有知识，以看图填充的形式引导学生对美国整个地理位置有个大致的全面认识。并让学生看“阅读”部分的图，叙述加州的土著人，引发学生对加利福尼亚的兴趣。了解加利福尼亚的移民历史Period 2: language points and exercise about the reading通过灵活多样的练习促使学生进一步对文章进行理解，并学习掌握遇到的新表达。Period 3: grammar复习名词性从句作主语、宾语和表语Period 4：writingWrite a essay about a city, province or zone in China.重组原因：根据一周的课时量及学生基础，本单对 reading and writing 部分只作简单处理。Period 1Warming up & Reading I. Teaching Aims;Knowledge goals: 1.Help students to learn about the knowledge of USA especially California.Ability goals: 2.Develop Ss reading ability by skimming, scanning and careful reading.Emotion Goals 3.Arouse Ss interest in science .II. Teaching Important PointsLearn the huge diversity of races and cultures in California.III. Teaching Difficult Points Encourage the students to discuss the question in page3Ex3 and make a summary of the passage.IV. Teaching Aids The multimedia and other normal teaching tools V. Teaching Procedures:Teaching proceduresStep 1 Warming up.1. Ask the students to discuss If you want to learn something about a country, a state, etc, what we want to know. Size Location Capital Population Language History geography Customs culture climate, agriculture industry, education medical care2. A quiz about the general knowledge of the USA (in the PPT-reading)3. Group work: look at the map of the USA with your group. Write on the map the names of as many of the following as you can. Compare your names with other groups. Ocean on the west coast: Pacific Ocean Country to the north of USA: CanadaCountry to the south of USA: Mexico Mountain range in the west: Rocky MountainsGreat Lakes: Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario Longest river in the USA: Mississippi RiverSome important cities: New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New OrleansStep 2 Pre-reading1. Ask the students to tell things about California including its location, size, population, economy, history etc. What do you learn about California?Step 3 Fast reading1. Read through the passage and get the main idea.1.Whats the topic of this text?A. the culture of California B. the history of California C. the weather of California D. the history of USA2.Which state in the USA has the largest Population? California (over 30 million people)3.How many kinds of people are mentioned in this text? Step 4 Detail readingNative Americans : Answer the following questions1.Time: 15000 years ago2.Where did they come from: from Asian to Alaska3.What happened in the sixteenth century?Native Americans were killed by Europeanwere forced into slaverydied from the disease survived the terrible timesThe Spanish Fill in the form: note down an important event16th century Spain soldiers arrived and took their land18th century California was ruled by SpainIn 1821 California became part of Mexicoin 1846 Mexico gave California to the United StatesRussians & Gold MinersDo some T or F questions:1.In the early 1800s, Russian fur trappers began settling in California. T2.In 1848, before the American-Mexican war, gold was discovered in California. F 3.A lot of adventures achieved their dream of becoming rich. F 4.California become the thirty-first state of the United states of American in 1850. TFilling the blacks Stage People Time EventAfricans 1800s Moved from MexicoChinese 1860s Build the railwayJapanese Early 1900s FarmedDenmark 1911 Established a townJewish By 1920 Developed industryItalians Late 1900s Fished and made wineLater arrivalsAfricans 1942-1945 Worked in ship& aircraft industriesStep 5 After readingWhy 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 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.Step 6 HomeworkFinish “Learning about language” on page 4.Period 2 Language Points Teaching aims1To learn the useful expressions an d sentence structures in the reading.2To enable students to use language points both orally and in written forms.3To further get students inspired.Difficult points:Some key words often used in the exams.Important points:How to use the words and some important rules related to the new words.Teaching steps:Step 1Learning following words and phrases in reading text.1. distinction n. 差别；区分；卓著常用结构：make a distinction between 对加以区分win a distinction for 因 而获功