1. Reading

2. Guess Hints(提示): It is a country.
Much of the country is covered by forests, and wood is cut and sold all over the world.
It has one third of the world's supply of fresh water.
It has a population of about 29 million.
It gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1982.
It is a bilingual and multicultural country, with both English and French as official languages.
It is the second largest country in the world.

3. Canada

4. How much do you know about Canada ?
Now let’s have a quiz:
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5. Quiz
Which is the national flat of Canada?
A B.
C. Q D.

6. 2.Which is the national flower of Canada?
A B.
cherry rose
C. Q D.
maple lily

7. 3. What language(s) do Canadians speak?
A. English
B. English and German
C. English and French
D. English and Spanish

8. Vancouver Toronto Calgary Ottawa 4. What is the capital of Canada?
A B.
Vancouver Toronto
C. Q D.
Calgary Ottawa

9. 5. What is the national animal of Canada?B.
Beaver Grizzly bear
C D.
Polar bear Penguin

10. 6. What is the leader of the country called?
President
Prime Minster
Queen

11. Reading
A Trip on “The True North”

12. 1. What is the topic of this passage?
A Trip on “The True North”
1. What is the topic of this passage?
A. a plan B. a dream
C. a journey D. a diary
2.What is the style of the passage?
A. argumentation
B. exposition
C. narration
D. biography

13. When we read a narration, what should we do ? Who : What : Where:
Why:
In what order is a narration arranged?
In chronological order/in order of time

14. What is “The True North”?
Reading--I---- scanning reading
What is “The True North”?
Find out the information of the six factors:
Who :
What :
Where:
When:
How
Why:

15. What is “The True North”?
“The True North” is the train that goes across Canada / the cross-Canada train.

16. Who : What : Where: When: How Why: Li Daiyu and Liu Qian
Make a trip to visit their cousins
To Canada
In September
by air\train
they want to see Canada /
they want to travel across Canada.

17. Draw the traveling route of the two girls.
从中国到加拿大

19. Read the text in detail, and answer the following questions.
Reading--II----detailed reading (5m)
Read the text in detail, and answer the following questions.
What is the continent they are crossing?
Why do many people want to live in Vancouver?
What happens at the Calgary Stampede?
Where does wheat grow in Canada?
Why would ships be able to reach the center of Canada?

20. 1 What is the continent they are crossing?
They are crossing North America.

21. 2. Why do many people want to live in Vancouver?
People want to live in Vancouver because it is beautiful / it is surrounded by mountains and ocean / they can ski in the mountains and sail in the harbour.

22. 3. What happens at the Calgary Stampede?
At the Calgary Stampede cowboys compete in riding wild horses / can win thousands of dollars for riding wild horses.

23. 4 Where does wheat grow in Canada?
Wheat grows in the center of Canada.

24. 5. Why would ships be able to reach the center of Canada?
Because ship can follow the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes to go there.

25. Word understanding 1. What does the word “slightly” in the text mean?
Feedback quiz (2m)
Word understanding
1. What does the word “slightly” in the text mean?
a bit
a lot
greatly
lightly

26. 2 Which of the following is described as the most beautiful city in Canada?
Vancouver
Calgary
Toronto
Montreal

27. 3. Why did they begin to realize two days later that Canada is quite empty?
Because they found nobody on their way.
Because there are only thirty million people living on such a huge land and most of them live within the areas of the USA border.
There are too many lakes in Canada.
Because Canada is surrounded by Oceans on three sides.

28. Li Daiyu and Liu Qian went to Canada to see their cousins in Montreal.
4. Which of the following statements is true according to the text?
Li Daiyu and Liu Qian went to Canada to see their cousins in Montreal.
Thunder Bay is a port city in the south of Canada near Toronto.
The girls looked out of the windows and saw Native Indians and cowboys.
Li Daiyu and Liu Qian went to Canada to see their relatives on the Atlantic coast.

29. Activity
Now,suppose you run a travel agency(旅行社),and you are promoting(宣传) a travel line to Canada.what will you do to attract the customers.
You should design an advertisement post and choose one to be the spokesman \spokeswoman.

30. Homework Surf the Internet to find more information about Canada.
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31. Fill in the blank and retell the story
Retell (5m)
Fill in the blank and retell the story
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
west
east
The True North
second
coast
coast
eastward
surrounded

32. settled down grizzly have a gift for went through close to
and east. When the cousins ________ _______ in the seats, they looked out of the window. They saw mountain goats and even a _______ bear. Calgary is famous for its competition. Many of the cowboys from all over 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

33. Sentences:
1. Rather than take the aero plane all the way, they decided _____ from China to Vancouver and to take the train from west to east across Canada in September.
A flying B to fly
Rather than: 而不是
in preference to (sb|sth); instead of
2. There is more fresh water in Canada than in _____country in the world.
A any B any other B B

34. 3. On the coast north of Vancouver some of the oldest and most beautiful forests in the world still ______ .
A is remained B remain
North of =to the north of
4. The girls told him they were on a train trip across Canada and _____ they had only one day in Montreal.
A that B \ C what B A