Unit 16 The United States of America The United States of America (Integrating skills and writing)

By JING Wenqin & HE Bang The BISON ON THE PLAINS OF AMERICA M assive head and forequarters covered with long, dark brown woolly hair. Short broad forehead, short neck, and high humped shoulders, with tufted tail. Long hairs of chin form long beard. Hips and hindquarters are much smaller and without long hair thus forming a distinct slope from hump to tail. Some stand six feet at the shoulder and weigh as much as a ton. Have short, sharp, upcurved horns. Shaggy winter coat falls off in patches in spring; color is dark brown in winter, lighter in summer.

By JING Wenqin & HE Bang L isten to the tape and try to find the answers to these two questions: questions: 1. In what ways did the settlers treat the Native Americans? 2. What caused a big change in the wildlife on the plains? The settlers killed them, forced them to leave their hunting grounds, broke agreements, forced them onto poor land and killed most of the bison on which Native Americans had relied for food. The killing of large numbers of bison changed the whole wildlife chain on the plains.

By JING Wenqin & HE Bang R ead the passage carefully and tick the sentences that are true and correct the false ones: 1.( ) The first settlers on the plains were farmers. 2.( ) Native Americans willingly gave up land to the settlers. 3.( ) The settlers did not deal honestly with the Native Americans. 4.( ) Settlers ended up with better land than the Native Americans. 5.( ) Later settlers made use of the bison in the same way as the Native Americans. F F T T F Native Americans. Were forced to give up The Native Americans later settlers

By JING Wenqin & HE Bang 1. U se what you have learnt from the text to complete the diagram below: the diagram below: kill Bison waste Bison soil grass insects birds wolves stop eating the grass shoots. The grows less well. Settlers Bison. No falls on the grass. Fewer, fewer prairie dogs. Fewer plants Fewer The becomes poorer. 2. A ccording to the diagram retelling the story.

By JING Wenqin & HE Bang Structure of the passage

By JING Wenqin & HE Bang How do you think of the relationship between human and nature? a. Human destroys nature. b. Human creates nature. c. Human depends on nature. d. Nature depends on human. e. Human and nature depends on each other. f. Human should be responsible for nature. g. Human is part of nature. h. Human lives in harmony with nature. i. Nature may control the development of human. Discussion Choose one of them to discuss with your partners to find some support reasons or some solutions.

By JING Wenqin & HE Bang w riting ItemChinaUSA Area 9.6 millionkm² 9.4 millionkm² Shape cock / Population 1.3 billion 0.28 billion History 5000y 300y Mountain Everest Alps River Yellow river /chang jiang Mississippi Be made up of 28 province and 4municipalities 52 states Peoples 56 all over the world Development developing developed Role in the world important Notes: 1.Do not list them one by one; 2.Choose what you think important to write; 3.In reasonable order; 4. If necessary, add sth more such as custom and people. 5.Pay attention to the format of an . Write an to your friend in the USA according to the information from the table.

By JING Wenqin & HE Bang