新人教版选修八Unit1WarmingUp..doc

Unit 1 A land of diversity Warming Up,Pre-reading and Reading Teaching goals 1. Enable the students to talk about things about the USA. 2. Help the students learn the huge diversity of races and cultures in America, especially in California. Teaching important and difficult points Learn the huge diversity of races and cultures in California. Teaching methods Fast and careful reading; asking and answering activity; individual, pair or group work. Teaching aids A map, a blackboard and a computer Teaching procedures Step 1 Lead-in show a map of the USA and ask two questions. 1).What will come to your mind when you hear USA? 2).What do you know about USA? Step 2 Warming up. 1. Show some pictures on the screen and ask the students to describe what they learn about the USA. 2. Group work: look at the map of the USA with your group. Write on the map the names of as many of the following as you can. Compare your names with other groups. 3. Do the following exercises with the help of the map Ocean on the east coast: Atlantic Ocean Ocean on the west coast: Pacific Ocean Country to the north of USA: Canada Country to the south of USA: Mexico Mountain range in the west: Rocky Mountains Great Lakes: Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario Longest river in the USA: Mississippi River Some important cities: New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New Orleans Step 3 Pre-reading 1. Show the students some pictures and encourage students not only to say what each picture is about but how each one relates to California. 2. Ask the students to tell things about California including its location, size, population, economy, history etc. What do you learn about California? 3. General knowledge quiz about California Step 4 Phrases 1. Study new important phrases: by means of… 用….方法 in addition to 除…之外还 by the time in the 1850s 到19世纪六十年代 keep up 保持，保存 occur to sb. 某人想到 be worth sth./doin