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This is the map of the ________________.USA

1. Which flag is American flag?

A. B. C.

2. Which city is the capital of the USA?

A.New York

B.Washington D.C

C.Los Angeles

3. ____ has the largest population in the USA. A. California B. Alaska C. Washington D. Texas

4. When is American Independence Day?

A. June 4th B. July 4th

C. October 1st D. August 14th

5. How many states are there in the USA?

A.

B.

C.

D.

47

48

49

50

6. Where is California?

A.B.

E.

C.

D.

California (one of the 50 states of the USA)

Pre-reading---(2 m)

Native California Indians

（印地安人）

California gold miners around 1849

（淘金者）

唐人街(Chinatown)

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1.What’s the topic of this text? A. the culture of California B. the history of California C.the weather of California D. the history of USA

2.Which state in the USA has the largest Population?

California (over 30 million people)

3.How many kinds of people are mentioned in this text?

Fast reading (5m’)

Russians

Later Arrivals people The Spanish

Most Recent Arrivals Native

Americans

3.How many kinds of people are mentioned in this text?

Gold Miners

The future arrivals

Native Americans(4m’)• 1.Time: 15000 years ago

• 2.What happened in the sixteenth century?

• were killed by Europeans• were forced into slavery• died from the disease • survived the terrible times

Native Americans

Careful reading

The Spainsh(7m’)Fill in the forms :(note down important events)

16th century 18th century in 1821

in 1846

Spain soldiers arrived

and took their land

California was ruled by Spain

California became part of Mexico

Mexico gave California to the United States

Russians & Gold Miners(6m’)Do some T or F questions:1.In the early 1800s, Russian hunters began

settling in California.2.In 1848, before the Amerian-Mexican war,

gold was discovered in California. 3.A lot of adventures achieved their dream o

f becoming rich. 4.California become the thirty-first state of th

e United states of Amerian in 1850.

after

few

Stage People Time Event

Later arrivals

Africans Moved from Mexico

Chinese Built the railway

Japanese Farmers

Denmark Established a town

Jewish Developed industry

ItaliansFishermen and wine makers

Africans 1942-1945Worked in ship& aircraft industries

1860s

1800s

Late 1900s

By the 1920s

Early 1900s

1911

(9m’)

Stage People Time Event

Recent arrivals

Indians,Pakistanis

Worked in Computer industry

CambodiansKoreansVietnameseLaotians

Immigrations

FutureDifferent parts

FutureImmigrations

Recent decades

In the 1970s

(3m’)

Homework

Please retell the whole passage and

preview the language points.