人教版高中英语选修八unit1第1课时教案

高二英语选修八unit 1 第一课时Warming up & reading

Teaching Goal:

Enable the Ss to learn sth about the USA

Enable the Ss to talk about some places with frequent english

Teaching important and difficult points

Practice some important words and expressions

Part 1 Warming up

Look at the warming-up part on page 1 and fill in the map(refer to the ppt.) What do you know about the USAlet’s have a small test.

1. Which flag is American flag

2. Which city is the capital of the USA

A.New York

B.Washington

C.Los Angeles

3. Which stands for the USA National Emblems（国徽）

4. How many states are there in the USA

doesn’t belong to the USA

Part 2 Reading.

Fast reading

state in the USA has the largest Population

2. Why is California called the most multicultural state in the US

many kinds of people are mentioned in this text

Detail reading

Native Americans

•:

• did they come from:

• happened to the native Americans in the sixteenth century

Native Americans

The Spainsh

16th century 18th century in 1821 in 1846

Influence:today over 40% of Californians speak Spainish as a first or second language

Russians & Gold Miners

Do some T or F questions:

the early 1800s, Russian fur trappers began settling in California.

1848, before the Amerian-Mexican war, gold was discovered in California. lot of adventures achieved their dream of becoming rich.

4.California become the thirty-first state of the United states of Amerian

in 1850.

Later arrivals

Recent arrivals

Look at the pictures below. Each illustrates something about California. Discuss in groups what each picture means to you.

native American Indian was standing beside a camp .It seemed that he or she felt very happy. Maybe he or she had a good harvest.

was a gold miner. He was panning gold. He looked not only thin and weak, but also thirsty and tired. It was difficult for them to achieve the dream of becoming rich.

building in Chinatown

Many Chinese have settled in California and many of them live in Chinatown in San Francisco.