2. Reading comprehension.

Ask the students the following questions:

1) When you look at the title, what so you think of ?

A land of differences. California is a land of great differences - differences in climate, in landscape and attitude.

2) Why is the USA called a melting pot?

There are many immigrants to the USA and there are many cultures and nationalities. So it is a place in which people, ideas, etc of different kinds gradually get mixed together.

3. Beside each date note down an important event in Californian history.

Step 4 Detail reading

Beside each cultural group , write the period in which they first came to California in large numbers.

Cultural groups Periods Cultural groups Periods

Russians early 1800s Japanese Early 1900s

Chinese Late 1840s/early 1850s Cambodians From about the 1970s

Africans 1800s Koreans From about the 1970

Italians Late 1800s Danish 1911

Jewish 1920s Pakistanis From about the 1970s