Unit 5 Canada—The True North

Unit 5 Canada—The True North Zheng Lihua

Lead-in Q1.Do you like traveling? Q2.What is the longest trip you have ever taken? Q3.Have you ever been abroad? Q4.Which country would you like to visit most? Why? ?

Warming Up • Work in pairs, try to answer this quiz and find out “How much do you know about Canada?” • The answers are : 1.C 2.D 3.A 4.B 5.A

Pre-reading: • Q1. Do you know which country uses this national flag? • Q2.Which continent is Canada in? • Q3.How large is it?

Pre-reading • Q4.Which country is its neighbor?

Pre-reading 5.If you take a trip to Canada, what do you expect to see? 6.What three words would you use to describe Canada?

Step 1. Fast reading(快速阅读） Tasks: ( 6 minutes) • Task 1. Get the general idea of the passage. • Task 2. Underline the 7 main places mentioned in the text. Atlantic coast,Vancouver, Rocky Mountain,Calgary, Thunder Bay,Lake Superior, Toronto

Task 3.Draw the route that two girls have traveled. Rocky Mountains Alberta Calgary Vancouver Thunder Bay Montreal Lake Superor Ottawa Toronto

Step2: Scanning(寻读) • Task 1. Find the answers to these questions on Page35. √

Answer 1 1.They are not flying directly to the Atlantic Coast because they want to travel across Canada． No yes

Answer 2 2.They are crossing the North America. west east

Answer 3 3. “The True North” is the train that runs through Canada.

Answer 4 4.People want to live in Vancouver because it is very beautiful. They can ski in the Rocky Mountains and sail in harbor. Vancouver sailing skiing

Answer 5 5.Cowboys compete in riding wild horses, and some of them can win thousands of dollars.

Answer 6 ６. Wheat grows in the centre of the country.

Answer 7 • 7.Ships are able to reach the centre because they can follow the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes.

Answer 8 • 8. Canada has water from its lakes and rivers and wood from its forests.

Task 2. Correct the wrong sentences according to the passage. • 1.The girls went to Canada to see their relatives in Montreal. • 2.Danny Lin was going to drive them to Vancouver. • 3.You can cross Canada in less than fives days by bicycle. on the Atlantic Coast of Canada train station to catch the true north can't

4.The girls looked out of the windows and saw Native Indians and cowboys. • 5.Thunder Bay is a port city in the south of Canada, near Toronto. wild scenery, a grizzly bear & mountains goat at the top end of the Great Lakes, near the centre of the country

Listening and fill the blanks west east Li Daiyu and Liu Qian took the train in Canada from ____to ____.Their cousins’ friend, Danny Lin, took them to the train station to catch “___ ___ ____”. Canada is the ______biggest country in the world. It is 5,500 kilometers from ____to____. As they go _______,they saw beautiful scenery as well as cities. Vancouver is __________by mountains on the north and east. When the cousins____ _______in the seats, they looked out of the window. The Ture North second coast coast eastward surrounded settled down

Listening and fill the blanks They saw mountains goats and even a _____ bear. Calgary is famous for its competition. Many of the cowboys from all over the North America___ __ ___ ___working with animals. Then they ____ _______a wheat-growing province. Thunder Bay is a busy port. It is ___ _____ the center of the country. grizzly have a gift for went through close to

Homework • 1. Remember the underlined sentences. • 2. Write a short passage to report what Li Daiyu and Liu Qian saw in Canada. (main cities; scenery; resources, wild animals, …you can use numbers to report it. eg. 5,500km 320km 30 million one-third … )

Enjoy: Canadian Scenery Ottawa

Enjoy: Canadian Scenery Toronto

Enjoy: Canadian Scenery Montreal

Enjoy: Canadian Scenery Vancouver

Unit 5 Canada—The True North