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Lesson42: North America
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Read and answer
What else do you want
to know
How many countries are
there What are they
Where is North America
north of /south of
/east of /west of…
What country is mainly talked about in Paragraph 3
... in Paragraph 4
... in Paragraph 5
What's the topic sentence of the report
Skim and answer
North America is a large continent,but it has only three main countries.
People there mainly speak Spanish.
It's the third largest country in area in North America.
Over 2 million people speak Chinese there.
It's the farthest north in North America.
It's the largest country in population in North America.
The third most common language is Chinese.
Canada America Mexico
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the map of Gansu
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location: in the middle of Gansu,
west of Ningxia,south of Inner Mongolia
area: cover about 21 thousand square
kilometres
others: such as rivers,mountains,
food,history and so on
counties and districts: 3 counties and 2
districts
population: about 1.7million people
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Information
counties and districts Baiyin Pingchuan Jingtai Huining
Jingyuan
area (square kilometres) 1,372 2,106 5,483 6,439
5,809
population 294,400 192,300 225,700 541,200
454,900
schools 120 101 184 369
230
Write a short passage about our city.
Try to use the given information.
Try to show your topic sentence.
Try to use contrast and comparison, such as the biggest/ smallest, bigger/ smaller than, the second longest…
Write
1. Listen to the tape and read after it.
2. Finish Let's Do It!
No.1 and No.3.
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