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课型：Reading

Studying goals:

1.Ability goals

★To learn to think and deal with problems.

★To practice reading and improve reading skills.

2.Emotion goals

★To get to know the multicultural California.

3.Important points

★To improve reading skills.

4.Difficulties

★How to improve reading skills.

4.Learning methods

Selfwork, pairwork, groupwork

Studying procedures:

Step1.Pre-reading:

1.What do you think of the United States？

2.What do the states stand for?

3.How many states are there in the USA?

4.How much do you know about California?

Step2.Reading:

Fast reading by skimming:

Task1：The passage can be divided into three parts.Match the main idea with each part.

Part1(Para.1) A.The history of settlement

in California.

Part2(Para.2-9) B.The future of California.

Part3(Para.10 ) C.Brief introduction to California

Tsak2:The passage focuses on the ______.

A. population of California

B. customs and languages of California

C. people of California

D. history of California

Task3:How many kinds of people are mentioned in this text?

people

Fast reading by scanning:

True or False

1.California is the largest state in the USA and has the largest population.

2.The native Americans are treated well after the arrival of Europeans.

3.Of the first Spanish to go to California, the majority were religious men.

4.During the Gold Rush Period, many achieved their dream of being rich.

5.It is believed that soon there will be only a mixture of many races and cultures.

Step3Intensive reading:

Read the passage paragraph by paragraph and answer the questions. 探究一:Native Americans

1.Time:

2. How did the first people travel to California ?

3.What happened in the sixteenth century?

Native Americans

探究二:The Spanish

4.Fill in the form:(note down an important event)

16th century 18th century

in 1846 in 1821

P4:Russians

1.

______________________________ 2.

______________________________ 3.

______________________________ 4. ______________________________

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