人教高中英语必修3 Unit 5 Canada – “The True North” Warming-up & Reading(共25张PPT)

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Unit 5
Canada---- “The True North”
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Unit 5
Canada---- “The True North”
Period 1 Warming-up & Reading
Warming-up
Find out the location of Canada
Location

Which is the national flat of Canada?
A. B.




C. D.
Quiz
Warming-up
2. Which is the national flower of Canada?

A. B.


cherry rose
C. D.


maple daffodil
3. What language(s) do Canadians speak?
A. English
B. English and German
C. English and French
D. English and Spanish
4. What is the capital of Canada?
A. B.


Vancouver Toronto
C. Q D.


Calgary Ottawa
5. What is the national animal of Canada?
B.



Beaver Grizzly bear
C. D.



Polar bear Penguin
6. What is the leader of the country called?
President
Prime Minister
Queen
Prime Minister of Canada
Stephen Harper
7. How many “Great Lakes” are there in Canada and what are they?
Lake Superior
Lake Huron
Lake Erie
Lake Ontario
Lake Michigan
refer to the map on page 33
Lake
Superior
Lake
Huron
Lake
Erie
Lake
Ontario
Lake
Michigan
A TRIP
ON “ THE TRUE NORTH”
A Trip on “the True North”
I am Liu Qian
I am Li Daiyu
“The True North” is the train that goes across Canada / the cross-Canada train.
Task I---- Skimming
What is “The True North”?
What is the main idea of the passage?
The passage is about a trip of two girls, and it tells us some information about Canada.
1. Listen to the passage and answer:
2. Draw the route of the travel in Canada and make marks on the map on page 33. 1 point for each correct answer.
1
China
by air
Vancouver
2
by train
Rocky Mountains
3
Calgary (Stampede)
4
A wheat-growing province
5
Thunder Bay
6
After dinner
Lake Superior
7
Toronto
towards
…
8
Task 2 : Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions:
1.Which continent are the cousins crossing?
2.Why are they not directly to the Atlantic Ocean?
3.Do you know where Vancouver is ?
4.Why is the population of Vancouver growing so rapidly?
5.What happens at the Calgary Stampede?
6.How are ocean ships able to reach the center of Canada?
7.What are some of Canada’s greatest natural resources?
8.Where did they go and what did they see?
1.Which continent are the cousins crossing?
2.Why are they flying not directly to the Atlantic Ocean?
3.Why is the population of Vancouver
growing so rapidly?
They are crossing North America.
They are not flying directly to the Atlantic coast because they want to take the train from west to east across Canada.
The population of Vancouver is growing so rapidly because it is beautiful.
4.What happens at the Calgary Stampede?
Cowboys compete in riding wild horses
for thousands of dollars in prizes.
5. Do you know where Vancouver is ?
It is / lies in the southeastern part of Canada ,
on the coast of the Pacific Ocean.
6.How are ocean ships able to reach the center
of Canada?
7.What are some of Canada’s greatest natural resources?
Because they can follow the St Lawrence River and the Great Lakes.
Canada has water from its rivers and lakes and wood from its forests.
8.Where did they go and what did they see?
Scenery :
beautiful mountains ,lakes and forests ,
wide rivers and large cities…
Places:
Vancouver
Rocky Mountains
Calgary
Wheat-growing province
Thunder Bay
the Great Lakes
name of the city:

the warmest part of Canada.
the most beautiful city in Canada
many Asian people want to live there.
the oldest and most beautiful forests in the world
the trees are extremely tall.
Vancouver
Task 3: read the passage carefully again and
try to guess which cities they are.
name of the city
famous for Stampede
Cowboys come to compete in riding wild horses.
A gift for working with animals
Calgary
They can win a lot of money in prizes.
name of the city
at the top end of the Great Lakes
very busy port
close to the centre of the country
so that ocean ships can go there.
Thunder Bay
Task 4: Summing up Fill in the blanks
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 Km from _____ to _____. As they go ________ , they saw beautiful scenery as well as cities. Vancouver is __________ by mountains on the north 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.
west
east
The True North
second
coast
coast
eastward
surrounded
close to
through
went
have a gift for
grizzly
settled down
Homework
1. Read the passage again and find out some useful words and expressions.
2. Find three appositive clauses from the reading passages.
3. Write a short passage to report what Li Daiyu and Liu Qian saw in Canada.