Thursday, May 6, 2010

Where We Come From -- EFA

Hey guys, here is the map that we made last week that shows our hometowns. Pretty cool, yeah?
I think so!

Click on all of the links on the left side to learn more about our cities. What kinds of cities are these? Keep in mind some of the vocabulary that we learned yesterday, such as coastal, mountain, port, etc. How would you categorize the city that you come from?

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Chengdu

Chengdu is a big Plain In the west of China .It’s a capital of Sichuan Province, Chengdu is a political Economical of central of Sichuan. Chengdu Plain covers total land area of 12,400 square kilometers, Chengdu has a jurisdiction of over 7 districts, 4 cities and 8 counties. By the end of 1999, the population of Chengdu had reached 10 million, Chengdu have a long history. About 2,500 years ago, Kaiming king of ancient (11th century 256BC) started to set up the capital in Chengdu. Chengdu gradually became one of the most important centers of politics, economy and culture in China.
Chengdu food is very popular in China. So Chengdu was also called the “Gourmet City”, Most of peoples of China like Chengdu food.
In the end, I want talk about Panda .This panda is not Restaurant “China Panda” . This is a animal. Chengdu is also the hometown of panda, you know, there are only about 1000 panda living in the world, all of them are in china, among them, 80% are in Chengdu.