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Reading and
Thinking
Unit 4 Reading and Thinking
Learn about a rail journey across Canada
What do you know about rail journeys
Rail journeys used to take a long time - people often
took them because they were cheaper than flying.
However, now with high speed rail, they are much
shorter, but also more expensive.
If you take a trip to Canada:
What do you think you will see if you go on a rail journey across Canada
Now let's follow Li Daiyu and Liu Qian's journey to explore more about Canada!
Brief introduction about the trip who
why
where
what
how
feeling
Read paragraph 1, and fill the blanks.
Read paragraphs 2-3, and fill the blanks.
Day place transportation information
1 rainy, see crafts and antiques
2 clear, mild, see mountains, hike
3 Canadian Rockies, blue water,
4 seeing mountain peaks and forests, creatures
Read Paragraphs 4-6, and figure out the two girls 3-day train route.
Jasper
Provincial capital of Alberta
Centre of oil and gas drilling industry
Cold in winter
Home to many shopping malls
Saw an open country
Went through two wheat-growing provinces
Time: another day
Feature: urban area
Time: night
Features: a land of forests and lakes rolling hills
Bushes and maple trees frost on the ground
Time: the next morning
Activities: saw Lake Huron
train route
Task 2 Reading for details
Place Information
often rains; a harbor; beautiful mountains looking out over the city; a forest just a short distance away
The Canadian Rockies
Centre of Canada’s huge oil and gas industry; cold in winter; with daily temperatures averaging -10 ℃; home to one of the largest shopping malls in North America
The Canadian Prairie
a land of forests and lakes; rolling hills; for Great Lakes on its southern border
Read the article again and underline the discourse markers (or linking words).
Discourse markers are used to show relationships between ideas. Relationships can range from adding something to showing contrast, to explaining a reason, or to showing a result. Without them, the connections between sentences and paragraphs would be less obvious.
语篇标记词
Read the article again and underline the discourse markers (or linking words).
1. however A. to add something
2. since B. to show contrast
3. when C. to explain a reason
4. in addition to D. to show an end point in time
5. in fact E. to show time
6. later F. to emphasise
7. eventually G. to describe the order of events
4. Match each of these discourse markers with the correct purpose.
Step 3 Post-reading
After reading the passage,please fill in the following blanks.
Li Daiyu and Liu Qian were on a trip to Canada.Before 1. (start) out,they spent a couple of days in Vancouver,2. there were some shops selling crafts and 3. (antique).After that they took the train to Lake Louise,where the blue water took their breath 4. .Their next stop was in Edmonton,a city with daily temperatures 5. (average) -10℃.They had known that Canada is a country which has vast lands but 6. small population.However,they didn’t anticipate 7. (see) such an open country.
They were so 8. (amaze).The train thundered on,and the red maple trees outside the window 9. (confirm) that autumn had arrived in Canada.10. (eventual),they reached their destination—Toronto.The whole journey took them four days.