Unit 5Canada ------The True North

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National flag

Capital city-----Ottawa

Toronto

Chinatown in Vancouver

Keys: 1.C 2. D 3. A 4. B 5. A

How much do you know about Canada?Try the quiz on page33.

What do you expect to see if you take a trip to Canada?

beaver

Polar bear

Grizzly bear

Scan the reading passage and underline the main places mentionedin the text.Atlantic coast, Vancouver, Rocky Mountains, Calgary, Thunder Bay, Lake Superior and Toronto.

Draw the travalling route of the two girls at the map on page33.

Read the questions on page35 and read the text to find the answers.

1. They are not flying directly to the Atlantic Coast because they want to travel across Canada.2. They are crossing the North America.

3. “The True North” is the train that runs through Canada.

4. People want to live in Vancouver because it is very beautiful. They can ski in the Rocky Mountains and sail in harbour.

5. Cowboys compete in riding wild horses, and some of them can win thousands of dollars.

6. Wheat grows in the center of Canada.

7. Ships are ably to reach the center because they can follow the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes.

8. Canada had water from its lakes and rivers and wood from its forest.

Try to find out what these numbers refer to in the text.

Second:

5500:

320:

Thirty million:

One third:

The second largest country in the world

It is 5500 kilometers from the east to the west of the country.

The population of Canada is slightly over thirty million

Most Canadians live 320 kilometers of the USA border.

Canada has one third of the world’s fresh water

Fill in the blanks. Li Daiyu and liu Qian took the train in Canada from ______to _________. Their cousin’s friend, Danny Lin, took them to the train station to catch “____ ____ _________.”Canada is the _______ largest country in the world. It is 5500 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.

China Vancouver

The True North

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eastward

surrounded

settled down

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Calgary is famous for its competition.Many of the _______ 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.

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