2019学年度人教版选修八 Unit 1 A land of diversityPeriod2 Language points 教案设计

Teaching goals教学目标

1. Target language 目标语言

重点词汇和短语

population, means, majority, mix, nationality, by means of, fight against, make a life, keep up

重点句子

Exactly when the first people arrived in what we now know as California, no one really knows.

However, it is likely that Native Americans were living in California at least fifteen thousand years ago.

That is why today over 40% of Californians speak Spanish as a first or second

language.

Although Chinese immigrants began to arrive during the Gold Rush Period, it was the building of the rail network from the west to the east coast that brought even larger numbers to California in the 1860s.

In more recent decades, California has become home to more people from Asia, including Koreans, Cambodians, Vietnamese and Laotians.

2. Ability goals能力目标

Enable the students to master the language points in the reading part.

3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the students learn the use of the important words and expressions

Teaching important points 教学重点

Get the students to master the important words and phrases.

Teaching difficult points教学难点

Get the students to understand the sentences.

Teaching methods教学方法

Study individually, practice in groups.

Teaching aids教具准备

A computer and a recorder.

Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方式

Step Ⅰwords and phrases

1. California is the third largest state in the USA but has the largest population.

population

(1) 对人口提问用what, 不用 how many, how much。

e.g. What's the population of the city? 这个城市有多少人口？

(2) population作主语时用单数，但前有 分数，小数，百分数时，谓语动词用复数。

e.g. The population of China is larger than that of America.

中国人口比美国人口多。

80% of the population are farmers. 百分之80的人口是农民。

(3) 人口的增加或减少用grow (increase) 和fall (decrease); 人口的多少用large 和small。

2. Scientists believe that these settlers crossed the Bering Strait in the Arctic to America by means of a land bridge which existed in prehistoric times.