高中英语第三册(全一册)Unit6 Going West-Reading1 ppt.pptVIP

* * Unit 6 PRE-READING Discuss the following questions with your partner. Who were the Native Americans? Where did they live and what do you know about their life? The Native Americans were the Indian. They lived in the vast land of West America and their life was simple and hard. They hunt for food and rode on horses. 2. The new settlements in America soon became known as the Wild West. Why? There were no laws and there were no police, no jails and no courts. As a result, law and order did not exist, and anything could happen. Reading comprehension Pa1. What caused the author’s father to move to the west was ____. A. what he had read in a book about California B. that the book about California described the wonderful land beyond the Rocky Mountains C. The wonderful land beyond the Rocky Mountains gave him the idea to move there. Pa2. What do you know about Indian Creek? It was in Kansas. B. It was the frontier then. C. It was the meeting place for people moving to the west. Pa2. Paraphrase “We left traveling with a group of 45 wagons”. When we set off, we had a group of 45 wagons. B. We traveled with a group of 45 wagons the moment we left. C. We started the journey with a group of 45 wagons. Pa3. Tick the difficulties the author’s family ran into on their journey. The journey was a most trying part. There were no roads sometimes. They lost their way when they entered the desert. There was a lack of water or grass for the animals to eat. The landscape was dry and barren. The cattle became tired and weak. Pa3. We could not ride the wagons and had to walk beside them because _____. The cattle had to travel about ninety miles without water or grass the landscape was dry and barren the long walk through the sand was hard on the oxen the cattle were too tired and weak to pull the wagons. Pa4. Why people could not help one another in the Death Valley was that ____. the situation was so desperate that people had to suffer heat, thirst, and