Unit 5 Canada—"The True North"
Are you familiar with Canada?
How much do you know about Canada?
How much do you know about Canada?
Warming Up
1.What language（s）do Canadians speak?
A. English

B. English and German

C. English and French

D. English and Spanish
答案: C
2.What is the capital of Canada?
A. B.
Vancouver Toronto
C. Q D.
Calgary Ottawa
3.What is the national animal of Canada?
B.

Beaver Grizzly bear
C. D.

Polar bear Penguin
４Which is the national flag of Canada?
A. B.

C. Q D.
5.What is the Canadian leader called?
President
Prime Minister
Governer
King
6.How many “Great Lakes” are there in Canada and what are they?
Lake Superior
Lake Huron
Lake Erie
Lake Ontario
Lake Michigan
Lake
Superior
Lake
Huron
Lake
Erie
Lake
Ontario
Lake
Michigan
Lake Superior 苏必利尔湖
Lake Huron 休伦湖
Lake Erie 伊利湖
Lake Ontario 安大略湖
except Lake Michigan
密歇根湖
Reading
A TRIP ON "THE TRUE NORTH"
Skimming
Read the text quickly and quietly to fill in the blanks and match the main idea of the 3 parts
Part 1
para(s)___

Part 2
para(s)___

Part 3
para(s)___
What they really saw and felt after boarding the train

brief introduction of their trip

Their chat on their way to the station
1
2
3-5
plane
train.
Li Daiyu Liu Qian
to __________________
Montreal, Canada
visit their cousins
Scanning
Part 1
Read the 1st para and finish the chart below

1. _____________ 2._________________
population

___________
Part 2
Para.2
Canada
distance ____________
(from coast to coast)
Going eastward, you’ll pass
1.______________

3.______________________
_______
Vancouver
the warmest part
the most beautiful city
3. _______________
_______________
increases rapidly.
5.climate_________
4. ______________
______________
wet
trees
___________
extremely tall
mountains
wide rivers & large cities
2. ____________
scenery
5,500 kilometres
beautiful forests
oldest & most
one of Canada’s most popular cities
lakes & forests
Part 3
Read paras 3-5 and answer the following questions
1 What mountains did they cross ealier that day?
2 Which city did they go after crossing the mountains?
3 What did the girls think about Canada after 2 days’ travel?
4 Where did they go after dinner?
5 Which lake did the train rush across that night, and what’s their next destination(目的地)?
1Earlier that day, …Rocky Mountains.
2 … Calgary…
3 After 2 days’ travel, … empty…
4 After dinner, …Thunder Bay…
5 That night … across Lake Superior
… Toronto
Vancouver
Time
route
Draw the route of the two girls traveling across Canada.
Vancouver
Rocky Mountains
Calgary
Thunder Bay
Lake Superior
Toronto
1. Why were the cousins not flying direct to Atlantic coast?
2. What is the continent they were crossing?
3. Which is the warmest part in Canada?
4. How did they sleep that night?
Because they wanted to take the train from west
To east across Canada.
The North American continent.
Vancouver is the warmest part of Canada.
They slept as the train rushed through the night across the top of Lake Superior, through the great forest and southward towards Toronto,
5. Which of the following is described as the most beautiful city in Canada?
A. Vancouver B. Calgary C. Toronto D. Montreal
6. What does the word “slightly” in the text mean?
A. a bit B. a lot C. greatly D. lightly
7. Why did they begin to realize two days later that Canada is quite empty?
A. Because they found nobody on their way.
B. Because there are only thirty million people living on such a huge land and most of them live within the areas of the USA border.
C. There are too many lakes in Canada.
D. Because Canada is surrounded by Oceans on three sides.
8.Why do many people want to live in Vancouver?
9.What happens at the Calgary Stampede?
10.Where does wheat grow in Canada?
11.Why would ships be able to reach the center of Canada?
Because it is very beautiful. They can ski in the Rocky Mountains and sail in harbor.
Cowboys compete in riding wild horses, and some
of them can win thousands of dollars
In the center of Canada.
Ships are able to reach the center of Canada because they can follow the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes to go there.
A TRIP ON “ THE TRUE NORTH”
What is “The True North” in the title?

1. Canada is located in the northern North America.

2. It is the name of a train.
Fast reading
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 kilometers 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
settled down
grizzly
have a gift for
went through
close to
Arctic
Canada is in northern North America
Pacific
Vancouver
Calgary
Toronto
Ottawa
Atlantic
Montreal
Task four:Basic Facts about Canada
Distance from east to west coast _____________
Oceans on east and west coast ________________________
Where most Canadians live ___________________________
Location of largest fresh water supply ___________________
Key point about Vancouver ____________________________
Key point about Calgary _______________________________
Key point about Thunder Bay ___________________________
Population ___________________________
5,500km
Atlantic Ocean (east), Pacific Ocean (west)
slightly over 30 million
within 320km of the USA border
The Great Lakes
warmth, most beautiful city, oldest forests…
Calgary Stampede, …
busy port city at the top of the Great Lakes, …
Language points
Canada is a multicultural country like China. 加拿大像中国一样是一个多元化国家。
multi-是一个前缀，意为“多”
multistory ____________
multiform ____________
多层的
多种形式的
多党的 _____________
多国的、多民族的 __________
多向的 ________________
多彩的，彩色的 ____________
多媒体 __________
multiparty
multinational
multidirectional
multicolored
multimedia
2.--- were on a trip to Canada ---
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 /go on a trip to make a trip to take a trip to
海滨之行 __________________
前往巴黎的蜜月之旅 __________________________
他出差在外。He is _____________________.
我父亲下礼拜要到纽约去。
My father will _______________________ next week.
a trip to the seaside
a honeymoon trip to Paris
on a business trip
make a trip to New York
注意journey /trip /tour/ travel /voyage的区别：
Journey一般指时间和距离都比较长的陆路旅行，有明确的方向性
Trip一般指短距离的旅行，也可代替journey表示长途旅行。
Tour指“周游”“巡回旅游”常常是访问一系列地方后又回到原出发地。
Travel泛指旅行，不强调具体的目的地，指具体的旅行常用复数，单数一般指“旅行”的抽象概念。
Voyage指不论路程长短的水上或空中的“游历，旅行”。
1.____is very important and it can help enlarge our knowledge.
A. Travel B. Journey
C. Trip D. Voyage

2. Could you____ a trip with me to Hong Kong next week?
A. make B. take
C. go on D. all above
A
D
3. Rather than take the aeroplane all the way, they decided to fly from China ---
rather than : instead of 与其（某人/某物）;不愿
They decided to take the aeroplane
rather than take the train.
他不愿惹麻烦,宁可离去. _______________________, he left.
我想喝柠檬汁,不想喝可乐.
I’ll ___________________________.
他正忙于写信而不是读报.
He was busy __________________ __________________________.
Rather than cause trouble
have a lemonade rather than a coke
writing a letter
rather than reading a newspaper
1.To enjoy the scenery, Tom would rather spend
long hours on the train_____ travel by air.
A. as B. to C. than D. while
2.He told his teacher that he preferred ____ the
classroom to _____ the text.
A. to clean reciting B. clean reciting
C. to clean to recite D. cleaning reciting
would rather do……….than do
prefer to do A rather than do B
prefer sth./doing A to sth./doing B
拓展: 宁愿……..而不愿
4.The thought that they could cross the whole continent was exciting.
本句中that引导的从句属于同位语从句，同位语从句一般用来解释或说明这些名词的具体涵义和内容。同位语从句常常跟在fact、idea、opinion、news等名词后面。

The factory (that) we visited yesterday is a chemical one.
The news that he will leave for shanghai is true.
（定语从句)
（同位语从句）
5.You’re going to see some great scenery. Going eastward, you’ll pass mountains and thousands of lakes and forests, as well as wide rivers and large cities.
scenery /‘si:nəri/ 景色，风景。不可数名词

Scene / view / sight / scenery之间区别：

Scene:指一个地区的自然景色或人为环境，还可指场景、情景
View:多指从远处或高处所见到的景色。
Sight:侧重指旅游观光的风光，“风景名胜”还可指视力
Scenery:自然风光，指一个国家或地区的整体风景
One of the advantages of living on the top of floor of a highrise is that you can get a good______
A. sight B. scene
C. view D. scenery
The happy_____ of children playing in the garden disappears, and it is quiet again.
A. scene B. scenery
C. scare D. spot
C
A
6. Going eastward, you will...
-ward（s）加在前置词上，构成副词，表示方向backward(s)向后，upward(s)向上。
7.As well as表示“既…也…，不仅…而且…”它还可以连接并列主语，但注意谓语动词与主语的形式保持一致。
吉姆和他的同学们一样期待着暑假的到来。
Jim, as well as h