人教版高二英语选修8Unit1Alandofdiversity全单元教案.doc

Unit 1 A land of diversity
The First Period Warming up
一．Aims:
1. Teaching aims 教学目标：
Help the students learn more information about America.
重点词汇和短语
ocean, coast, mountain, range, compare
2. Ability aims能力目标
Enable the students to know more about America and can give some cities’ names
二．Contents
Step I
Ask the students to talk about the names in groups, and then write down them on the map.
Step II
Compare answers with other groups
Step III
Give the correct names to the students.
Step IV
Tell the students some information about America to improve their interest. And ask some students to say what they know about America.
Homework To observe an American map
The Second Period Reading
一．Aims:
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.
二．Contents:
Step 1 Warming up.
1. 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.
Step 2 Pre-reading
1. Ask the students to tell things about California including its location, size, population, economy, history etc. What do you learn about California?
2. Show the students some pictures and encourage students not only to say what each picture is about but how each one relates to California.
Step 3 Fast reading
1. Read through the passage and get the main idea.
2. Reading comprehension.
Ask the students the following questions:
1) When you look at the title, what so you think of ?
A land of differences. California is a land of great differences — differences in climate, in landscape and attitude.
2) Why is the USA called a melting pot?
There are many immigrants to the USA and there are many cultures and nationalities. So it is a place in which people, ideas, etc of different kinds gradually get mixed together.
3. Beside each date note down an important event in Californian history.

15,000 years ago
16th centure
1821
1846
1848
185000
First settlers crossed
the Bening Strait from
Asia. These people are
now known as Native
Americans.
Spanish soldiers
arrived in
South America.
California
became
part of Mexico.
The US declared
war on Mexico.
Gold was
discovered
in California.
California
became the 31st
state of the US.

Step 4 Detail reading
Beside each cultural group , write the period in which they first came to California in large numbers.
Cultural groups
Periods
Cultural groups
Periods
Russians
 early 1800s
Japanese
 Early 1900s
Chinese
 Late 1840s/early 1850s
Cambodians
 From about the 1970s
Africans
 1800s
Koreans
 From about the 1970
Italians
 Late 1800s
Danish
 1911
Jewish
 1920s
Pakistanis
 From about the 1970s
Step 5 After reading
Why is California in the 21st century such a multicultural community? (Using 3 or 4 sentences to explain. )
Step 6 Homework
Finish “Learning about language” on page 4.

The Third Period Language Points
一．Aims:
1. Learn expressions and phrases.
2. Learn language points.
二．Contents:
1. means: a method or a way of doing. 方式，方法，手段（但复数同形）
Translate:
一切可能的办法都试过了。
All possible means have been tried.
= Every possible means has been tried.
by means of : by using 依靠，凭借
2.occur: come into sb’s mind (想起，想到)
　　　　happen, take place(发生)
1)When did the accident occur?发生
2)A good idea occurred to me all at once.想到
3.multi-前缀，是“多，多方面，多方向”的意思
multi-coloured
 多色的
multi-racial country
 多种族国家
multi-media
 多媒体
multiparty
 多党
multiparty system
 多党制
multi-purpose
 多种用途
思维拓展：
mono-前缀：one, single 单
　eg: a monolingual dictionary(单语词典)
bi-前缀：two, twice, double双
　eg: a bilingual dictionary(双语词典)
4.Declare v.宣告，声称，宣称，申报
　translate the following sentences
1) War was declared on the enemy.
2) She declared that she knew nothing about it.
3) Have you anything to declare.
declare oneself
 发表态度
declare war on/upon
 宣战
declare against
 声明反对
declare for
 声明支持
5.Keep up:保持,坚持,持续
1)The manager asked the workers to keep up the work.
2)The rain kept up for two days and the roads were floaded.
Step 4 Exercises: translation
1.我就是想不起他的名字.(occur)
His name just didn’t occur to me.
2.他宣称他是正确的.(declare)
He declared that he was right.
3.鼓起勇气,成功就属于你.(keep up)
Keep up your courage, and success will be yours.
4.他虽然不会说话,但能通过手势让别人知道他的意思.(by means of)
He couldn’t speak, but made himself understood by means of signs.
Step 5 Homework Review the language points.

The Forth period Learning about language and using language
一．Aims
Target language
Useful words and expressions: luggage, tram, apparently, slip, bakery, ferry, hire, seagull, immigration, team up with, mark out, take in, a great many.
Teaching important and difficult points
1. Improve the students’ reading ability (skimming and scanning).
2. enable the students to grasp the useful words and expressions.
二．Contents
Step 1 Lead-in
1. Look at George’s photos. Then quickly read George’s diary. Write the days he saw these things under the photos.
2. Read George’s diary more slowly and answer the questions.
1.Why did Andrew Hallidie invent the cable car system?
2. Where did George eat lunch on his first day in San Francisco?
3. Why did George hire a car? Why do you think he joined up with Terri and Peter?
4. Name three things that visitors can do in Chinatown.
5. What is Alcatraz Island famous for?
3. Read George’s diary again. Put the mark”^” in the places where George has left out some words. Discuss with others in your class: Why did George leave out some words when he wrote his diary?
Step 2 Language points
1. Team up with: make an effort in cooperation with; work together with与……协力从事,合作
Translate:
He teamed up with an experienced worker in the project.
2.hire 解雇
fire 租,雇佣
1)You are _fired___, because you are so lazy for the work.
2) I must ____hire_ a house when finding a job in the city.
Take in
接受,接纳,接待
吸收,领会,理解
改小(衣服)
包含,包括
欺骗
3.take in

Step 3 Pair work and consolidation.
Make sentences with the new words learned in this lesson.
Step 4 Homework
1. Read the passage again
2. Prepare for the diction of the useful words and expressions of this unit
3. Prepare for the writing of the next lesson.