教学ppt课件 Unit 6 Going west reading.pptVIP

Unit 6 The process of developing the west 1748年 弗吉尼亚的俄亥俄州土地公司的组建（开始）。 1784，1785，1787 年制定三个土地法开发西部的纲领。 1895年 工业总产值跃居世界第一位 西部开发的三个阶段： 农业开发阶段（1750－1850） 工业开发阶段（1850－1950） 科技开发阶段 （1950－至今） While-reading When did their travel begin and what was their destination? The travel began in the middle of October of 1845, they decided to move to California. 2. What does “account” in the first line means? The “account” here means description. For example, “She gave the police a full account of the incident.” 3. In paragraph two, the author mentioned Indian Greek. Where was it and was it very important? It was in Kansas. It was the frontier at that time and also the meeting place for people moving to the west. 4. Do you know what difficulties they ran into during the journey? They entered the desert and lost their way, and didn’t have enough water to drink. Their animals died from lack of water. 5. According to the fourth paragraph, why do people call the desert Death Valley? People showed coldness and were not willing to help others in trouble. They abandoned everything they could. Valley is in chaos and full of dead animals. Therefore, we called it Death Valley. 6. What is the theme of this passage? If you make unremitting efforts, you will achieve your goals. Don’t give up before difficulties. Homework 1. Retell the text. 2. Complete Exercises 2 and 3 on P51, Language Study.