2018学年度 人教版选修8Unit1Period1Reading教案设计

(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.