高中英语Unit 1 A land of diversity--Period1[ty]必修八新人教版.doc

Unit 1 A land of diversity Period 1 A sample lesson plan for reading (CALIFORNIA) Introduction In this period, after the warming up, students will be guided to pre-read by discussing, read for forms, copy and make sentences. Then they shall read the text to transfer information. Next they will read the text again to draw a diagram of it and retell the story in their own words. The period will end by students writing a history account. Objectives To help students understand the text’s forms and contents and learn about a land of diversity To help students communicate on the topic in focus with the words, collocations and structures learned in this unit Focus Words illustrate, indicate, swap, slip, hire, insert, react Collocations by means of, occur to, team up with, mark out, take in, a great many Patterns 1. Exactly when the first people arrived in what we now know as California, no one really knows. 2. However, in 1846 the United States declared war on Mexico and after it lost the war, Mexico had to give California to the United States. 3. Although Chinese immigrants began to arrive during the Gold Rush Period, it was the building of the railway from the west to the east coast that brought even larger numbers to California in the 1860s. 4．Now that you have read the text, you know a lot more about the pictures on pages 1-3. Aids Multimedia facilities, tape-recorder, photos, diagrams Procedures 1. Warming up by talking about California California is a state located on the west coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous state in the U.S., as well as the most physically diverse, with the highest and the lowest points in the lower 48 states located within 150 miles of each other. If California were an independent nation, it would have the fifth largest economy in the world (after the rest of the U.S., Japan, Germany, and Britain; see economy of California). The states official nickname is The Golden State in reference to Californias 1849 Gold Rus