UNIT 1 a land of diversity reading2.pptVIP

Pre-reading Read the pictures and the blue words in the text, guess what may be talked in the article? skimming: Russians early 1800s Chinese late 1840s / early 1850s Africans 1800s Italians late 1800s Jewish 1920s Japanese early 1900s Cambodians from about the 1970s Koreans from about the 1970s Danish 1911 Pakistanis from about the 1970s Native Americans 1.Time: 2.Where did they come from: 3. How did they come? 4.What happened in the sixteenth century? were killed by__________ were forced into ______ died from the diseases survived the terrible times time immigrants reason to settle in Writing style and techniques: 1. A _________________ article. 2. Introduce briefly the main ______ ___________________________ in California. 3. Describes ________________the people from different parts of world immigrated to California. Discussion1.Do you think Gold Rush benefits California? 2.If you have a chance to immigrate to the U.S.A, California is your favorite place to settle down? Why? in the 1860s build the railway in the late 19th century Italians catch fish; make wine in 1911 Danish / by the 1920s Europeans Jewish film industry at the beginning of 20th century since the 1980s Japanese farmers / since the 1800s between 1942 and 1945 African work in the ship and aircraft industries Chinese Recent arrivals Future Future Reason to settle in Time immigrants Stage Recent decades 1970s Computer industry / Climate and lifestyle Indians, Pakistanis Cambodians Koreans Vietnamese Laotians People from different parts of the world Step 5 Discussion historical narrative events of different periods of times history when ,how ,and why The passage is a brief _______ of the _________ of California. People from almost __________________ came to the state at ____