(共33张PPT)
Unit 5
Canada – “The True North”
Using language
“THE TRUE NORTH” FROM TORONTO TO MONTREAL
Reading
Toronto
Toronto
maple trees
The CN Tower is the
World’s Tallest
Building. It is about
553.33m. It was
built in 1976.
Toronto from the CN Tower
Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls is
the second largest
falls on the globe
next to Victoria Falls
in southern Africa.
Chinatown
Montreal 蒙特利尔是加拿大第二大城市和世界最大河港之一, 全国工商业、金融、文化中心。
Old Montreal
St. Lawrence River
Divide the text into 2 parts and find out the timeline of the text. Then fill in the following chart.
Fast reading
the next morning
late that night
at dawn the next morning
around noon
saw beautiful maple trees.
arrived in Toronto.
the train left.
arrived in Montreal.
Time Events
they spend the afternoon
the night
in the lovely shops and visiting the artists in their workplaces beside the water.
the train was speeding down to the East Coast.
Time Events
1. How do 1. we know it is fall in Canada?
Answer the questions.
2. What can sometimes be seen from the CN Tower in Toronto?
3. Where does the water from the lake go?
4. Why is there good Cantonese food in
Torono?
5. Why did the girls go to Old Montreal?
6. What three things show us that
Montreal is a French city?
1.confirm v. “证实; 证明; “批准; 使坚信”。
His letter confirmed everything.
他的信证实了一切。
The latest information confirms him in the belief that we will surely win.
这一最新消息使他坚信我们一定会胜利。
confirmation n. 确认; 证实
2. not…until 直到…才
He didn’t finish the work until yesterday.
Don’t get off the bus until it has stopped.
I slept until midnight.
Wait till I call you.
a. not until …在句首, 主句用倒装。
Not until the early years of the 19th century
did man know what heat is.
直到19 世纪初, 人类才知道热能是什么。
b. 用于强调句 It is not until… that…
It was not until I told him that he knew about it.
It was ____ yesterday ___ I was wrong.
A. until; did I realize B. not until; did I realize
C. until; that I realized D. not until; that I realized
D
3. distance n.意为“距离; 远方”。
________________在一定距离;(稍)远处
This picture looks better at a distance .
这幅画远看就好些。
2)keep sb at a distance 与某人保持一定距离;不愿与某人亲近。
3)__________________ 在远处
a.
4. It’s too bad you can’t go as far as
Ottawa…
as far as 有两种含义:
直到……远, 远到……;
就……; 据……;
as far as I know “据我所知”
as far as I am concerned “就我而言”
_____ I can see, there is only one possible
way to keep away from the danger.
(北京2004春)
A. As long as B. As far as
C. Just as D. Even if
B
as easy as ABC 像ABC一样容易
as deep as a well 像井一样深
as light as a feather 像羽毛一样轻
5. broad 形容词, 意为“宽阔的; 广泛的”
broad shoulders
a broad general idea
Across the broad valley of Danube, the
mountains rise blue and mysterious in the
distance.
从远处看去, 宽阔的多瑙河河谷的
那一面, 山峦起伏, 一片蔚蓝, 神秘莫测。
宽肩膀
概括性的认识
She stared at him with wide eyes.
她睁大眼睛注视着他。
wide interest 广泛的兴趣,
the wide world 广阔的世界,
wide apart 离得很远
wide awake 清醒; 机警
wide open 大开着
wide–eyed 大眼睛的
wide–angle 广角的
The next morning the red, gold and orange
_______and maple trees outside their windows
and the frost on the ground __________ that
fall had arrived in Canada. After arriving in
Toronto, the biggest and ____________ city
in Canada, around noon, Li Daiyu and her
cousins went on a tour of the city.
confirmed
bushes
Summary
most wealthy
Having climbed up the tall CN Tower, they
looked across the lake. _____________, the
_____ cloud rising from the great Niagara Falls,
which is on the south side of the lake, could be
seen. As they walked north from the harbour
area, Li Daiyu phoned Lin Fei, one of her
mother’s old ___________ from a telephone
_____. They met Lin Fei around dusk in
downtown Chinatown, one of the three in
Toronto and they chatted with each other
at a restaurant.
misty
In the distance
booth
schoolmates
The train left late that night and arrived in
Montreal at dawn the next morning. At a
______ restaurant, they were looking over the
______ St Lawrence River when they met a
young man called Henri, who told them that
most people in the city spoke both English and
French, but the city had French culture and
_________.
traditions
buffet
broad
That night as the train was speeding along the St Lawrence River toward the Gulf of St Lawrence and down to the distant east coast, the cousins dreamed of French restaurants and red maple leaves.
Discussion:
Toronto or Montreal, which is your preference?
Homework
Make a description of one city of canada.
2. Finish the language points of part II
on the exercise book.