Warming up and
Reading
Unit 5 Canada-The True North
2010 Winter Olympic Games
Which city host the Games?

which country?

Which continent?
And others?
Chinese competitor: Wang Meng
Vancouver
Canada
1. What language(s) do Canadians speak?
A. English
B. English and German
C. English and French
D. English and Spanish
Warming-up
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
4. What is the leader of the country called?
President
Prime Minster
Governor
King
5. How many “Great Lakes” are there in
Canada?
4
3
5
6
“The True North” is the train that goes across Canada / the cross-Canada train.
Predicting
1. What is “The True North”?
A TRIP ON “THE TRUE NORTH”

2. what might be included in a trip?
How
Where
trip
Who
Route
What (scenery)
When…
1.Who were on a trip?
.

2. Where did they go?
3. How did they go there ?

Canada, Montreal on the Atlantic coast.
Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian
They decided to fly to Vancouver and then take the train from west to eat across Canada.
Skimming I
Vancouver
Calgary
Thunder Bay
Toronto
skimming II: what was their route?
Rocky Mts
Great Lakes
Go eastward, across the continents
Vancouver
Rocky Mountains
Calgary
Thunder Bay
The Great Lakes
Toronto
Vancouver

Rocky Mountains

Calgary

Thunder bay

The Great Lakes
Scanning : what did they see and hear ? ( scenery)
Warmest, most beautiful, populous, the oldest and most beautiful forest, wet
busy port city at the top of the Great Lakes
Calgary Stampede: cowboys compete in the Stampede
Mountain goats, grizzly bear, eagle
Much of the fresh water of Canada is in the Great Lakes
Try to find out what these numbers refer to in the text.
5500:

Thirty million:

One third:
It is 5500 kilometers from the east
to the west of the country.
The population of Canada is
slightly over thirty million.
Canada has one third of the world’s fresh water.
Fill in the blank and retell the story
Li Daiyu and Liu Qian took the train in Canada from _____ to _____ . Their friend, Danny Lin, took them to the train station to catch “____ _____ ______” . As they went ________, they saw beautiful scenery as well as cities. Vancouver is Canada’s most ______ and _______ city to live in. They saw a ______ bear in the ________
_________.
west
east
The True North
eastward
beautiful
Retell (5m)
popular
grizzly
Rocky
Mountains
Calgary is famous for _________. After dinner, they came to the busy _____ _____ of Thunder Bay at the top of the ______ _______ , which supply Canada with _______ _______.
through the trip, they got to know Canada is _______ and _______. Since the distance from east to west is 5500km, but the population is slightly over_____ ______. It is rich in _____ and fresh water.
Stampede
port
city
Lakes
Great
fresh
water
large
empty
30
million
wood
Phrases
去…旅行
在大西洋海岸
与其，不愿
一路
在机场
认为，想
从这一海岸到另一海岸
温哥华北面的海岸
be on a trip to …
on the Atlantic coast
rather than
all the way
at the airport
have the idea that …
from coast to coast

the coast north of Vancouver
Surf the Internet to find more information about Canada.