Unit 5 Canada —— “The true North”
Period 1 Warming up and Reading 1
Teaching aims:
1. Talking about Canada.
2. Learn the geography, population, main cities, and natural beauty, natural resources of Canada.
3. Learn how to read a traveling report and pictures.
Teaching aids: A computer, a project and pictures.
Teaching steps:
Step 1. Warming up.
1. Ss discuss the following questions.
1) Do you like to go traveling?
2) Which countries do you like to visit? Why?
3) What can you e in the countries?
2.T shows some pictures of winter and invites Ss to describe them.
3.Get Ss to talk what they know about Canada.
4.T shows a map of Canada and asks: 1.Which continent is Canada in?
2.Which country is its neighbor?
3.What are the Oceans Canada faces?
4.How large is Canada?
4. Have a quiz.
Step 2. Pre-reading.
T: Would you like to take a trip to Canada?
What three words would you u to describe Canada?
Step 3 Reading
1. Shimming:
保定钟楼Get Ss to read the passage quickly and answer the following questions:
1) What is the passage mainly about?
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Sample：The passage is about a trip of two girls, and it tells us some information about Canada.
2) What is “The Ture North”?
Sample：“The True North” is the train that goes across Canada / 塞班岛是哪个国家the cross-Canada train.
3) How many cities are mentioned in the text? What are they?
Sample：Vancouver – Calgary—Thunder Bay—Toronto
4) What do you know about each city?
Vancouver :
the warmest part of Canada； the most beautiful city in Canada
many Asian want to live there；the trees are extremely tall.
the oldest and most beautiful forests in the world
Calgary:
famous for Stampede
Cowboys come to compete in riding wild hors.
good at working with animals
they can win a lot of money in prizes.
Thunder Bay:
at the top end of the Great Lakes；very busy port
clo to the centre of the country ,so that ocean ships can go there. 和树谈心
2. Detailed reading:
1) Get Ss to read the passage again and correct the following ntences.
1. The girls went to Canada to e their relatives in Montreal.
(in the East of Canada / on the Atlantic coast of Canada)
2. Danny Lin was going to drive them to Vancouver.
(the train station to catch the cross-Canada train)
3. You can cross Canada in less than five days by bicycle.
(can’t)
美月优芽4. The girls looked out the windows and saw Native Indians and cowboys.
(a grizzly bear, mountain goats and wild scenery)
越南芽庄旅游攻略5. Thunder Bay is a port city in the south of Canada, near Toronto.
(at the top end of the Great Lakes, near the center of the country)
2) Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks from the text.
Canada is _____ than the United States. It is the _______largest country in the world.It is _____ kilometers from coast to coast in Canada.The population of Canada is only slightly over_____________.Canada has _________ of the world’s fresh water, much of which is in the ___________.On the coast north of Vancouver some of the oldest and most beautiful _______ in the world still remain. It is so wet there that the trees are extremely ______.
Period 2 Language points:
1.Canada is a multicultural country like China. 加拿大像中国一样是一个多元化国家。
multistory 多层的 multiform 多种形式的
multichannel 多通话线路的, 多波段的 multipurpo 多种用途的
多党的 multiparty 多国的、多民族的 multinational
多向的 multidirectional 多彩的，彩色的 multicolored
多媒体 multimedia
2.Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian were on a trip to Canada to visit their cousins on the Atlantic coast. 李黛予和她的表妹刘倩去加拿大大西洋海岸看望她们的表兄妹们。
trip: usually short journey, esp. for pleasure (通常指短途的)行走，旅行（尤指娱乐性的）
与trip搭配的主要动词和介词： be on a trip to
make a trip to take a trip to
海滨之行a trip to the aside
汪庆广前往巴黎的蜜月之旅 a honeymoon trip to Paris
他出差在外。He is on a business trip
我父亲下礼拜要到纽约去。
My father will make a trip to New York next week
3. Rather than take the aeroplane all the way, they decided to fly from China to Vancouver and to take the train from west to east across Canada in September.
rather than (prep.): in preference to (sb/sth); instead of 与其（某人/某物）;不愿;不要
他不愿惹麻烦,宁可离去. Rather than cau trouble, he left.
我想喝柠檬汁,不想喝可乐.
行车记录仪排行榜I’ll have a lemonade rather than a coke.
他正忙于写信而不是读报.
