Golden State" in reference to California's 1849 Gold Rush. [1] California's U.S. postal abbreviation is CA, and its Associated Press abbreviation is Calif.

2. Pre-reading by discussing

Look at the pictures on page 1. Discuss them in pairs.

　　The famous Hollywood sign, a symbol of the city's world famous entertainment culture.

　　Silicon Valley is a commonly used nickname for the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in northern California, USA, originally referring to the concentration of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers, but eventually becoming a metaphor for the entire concentration of high tech businesses.

3. Reading for forms

Read the text to: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, blacken the predicates, darken the connectives and underline all the useful collocations.

4. Copying and making sentences

A collocation is two or more words that often go together. These combinations just sound "right" to native English speakers, who use them all the time.

　　Then how to learn collocations?

• Be aware of collocations, and try to recognize them when you see