time, you can use some patterns in the passage "The Bai Ethnic Group" on page 65.

Give the Ss ten minutes and then check their work.

One possible version:

　　The Jinuo ethnic group has a population of around 18.000. Their native region is Jinghong area of Yunnan. The Jinuo have their own dialect, a Chinese-Tibetan language, but Chinese is mostly spoken today. And there is no written script. The Jinuo have an agricultural ecinimy---farming and fishing. Their main crops are rice, maize and tea. So their staple foods are rice, maize and beans. There are three meals a day, usually breakfast and supper at home and lunch on farmland. Their houses made of bamboo or wood are usually built on mountain slopes. It's the culture that people with the same surname share the same house -- 20 or 30 families and upper flood is usually the living area and ground floor animals area.

　　The Jinuo women wear colorful jackets, short black skirts, while the men wear short white jacket and white or blue trousers. The Jinuo are good singers and dancers. Drum is a very important instrument and the most well-known Jinuo Festival is Sun-drum Dance in December, during which older people play special drum and people dance round drum.

Step III Homework

After class, choose an ethnic minority that interests you and find out about their culture, using books, magazines and the internet. And according to the information you've found, write an article.

One possible version:

The Gaoshan Ethnic Minority

　　The Gaoshan people is about 300,000 in total, less than 2 per cent of the 17 million inhabitants. The majority of them live in mountain areas and the flat valleys running along the east coast of Taiwan Island. About 1,500 live in such major cities as Shanghai, Beijing and Wuhan and in Fujian Province on the mainland.

The Gaoshans do not have their own script, and their spoken language belongs to the Indonesian group of the Malay/Polynesian language family. The Gaoshans are