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Period 1 Warming up and Reading 1

1. Teaching aims:

1. Talking about Canada.

2. Learn the geography, population, main cities, and natural beauty, natural resources of Canada.

3. Learn how to read a traveling report and pictures.

2. Teaching aids: A computer, a project and pictures.

3. Teaching steps:

Step 1. Warming up.

1. Ss discuss the following questions.

1) Do you like to go traveling?

2) Which countries do you like to visit? Why?

3) What can you see in these countries?

2.T shows some pictures of winter and invites Ss to describe them.

3.Get Ss to talk what they know about Canada.

4.T shows a map of Canada and asks: 1.Which continent is Canada in?

2.Which country is its neighbor?

3.What are the Oceans Canada faces?

4.How large is Canada?

4. Have a quiz.

Step 2. Pre-reading.

T: Would you like to take a trip to Canada?

What three words would you use to describe Canada?

Step 3 Reading

1. Shimming:

Get Ss to read the passage quickly and answer the following questions:

1) What is the passage mainly about?

Sample：The passage is about a trip of two girls, and it tells us some information about Canada.

2) What is "The Ture North"?

Sample："The True North" is the train that goes across Canada / the cross-Canada train.

3) How many cities are mentioned in the text? What are they?

Sample：Vancouver - Calgary-Thunder Bay-Toronto

4) What do you know about each city?

Vancouver :

the warmest part of Canada; the most beautiful city in Canada

many Asian want to live there;the trees are extremely tall.

the oldest and most beautiful forests in the world

Calgary:

famous for Stampede

Cowboys come to compete in riding wild horses.

good at working with animals

they can win a lot of money in prizes.

Thunder Bay:

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.

2. Detailed reading:

1) Get Ss to read the passage again and correct the following sentences.

1. The girls went to Canada to see their relatives in Montreal.

(in the East of Canada / on the Atlantic coast of Canada)

2. Danny Lin was going to drive them to Vancouver.

(the train station to catch the cross-Canada train)

3. You can cross Canada in less than five days by bicycle.

(can't)

4. The girls looked out the windows and saw Native Indians and cowboys.

(a grizzly bear, mountain goats and wild scenery)

5. Thunder Bay is a port city in the south of Canada, near Toronto.

(at the top end of the Great Lakes, near the center of the country)

2) Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks from the text.

Canada is _____ than the United States. It is the _______largest country in the world.It is _____ kilometers from coast to coast in Canada.The population of Canada is only slightly over_____________.Canada has _________ of the world's fresh water, much of which is in the ___________.On the coast north of Vancouver some of the oldest and most beautiful _______ in the world still remain. It is so wet there that the trees are extremely ______.

Period 2 Language points:

1.Canada is a multicultural country like China. 加拿大像中国一样是一个多元化国家。

multistory 多层的 multiform 多种形式的

multichannel 多通话线路的, 多波段的 multipurpose 多种用途的

多党的 multiparty 多国的、多民族的 multinational

多向的 multidirectional 多彩的，彩色的 multicolored

多媒体 multimedia

2.Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian were on a trip to Canada to visit their cousins on the Atlantic coast. 李黛予和她的表妹刘倩去加拿大大西洋海岸看望她们的表兄妹们。

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 on a trip to

make a trip to take a trip to

海滨之行a trip to the seaside

前往巴黎的蜜月之旅 a honeymoon trip to Paris

他出差在外。He is on a business trip

我父亲下礼拜要到纽约去。

My father will make a trip to New York next week

3. Rather than take the aeroplane all the way, they decided to fly from China to Vancouver and to take the train from west to east across Canada in September.

rather than (prep.): in preference to (sb/sth); instead of 与其(某人/某物);不愿;不要

他不愿惹麻烦,宁可离去. Rather than cause trouble, he left.

我想喝柠檬汁,不想喝可乐.

I'll have a lemonade rather than a coke.

他正忙于写信而不是读报.

He was busy writing a letter rather than reading a newspaper.

4. It is the second biggest country in the world and as you go eastward, you will see mountains, and pass by thousands of lakes, forests and wide rivers as well as cities. 它是世界第二大国家,当你一路向东行时,除了城市你还会看到山脉,会经过上千个湖泊,森林,大河等以及城市.

eastward也作eastwards,副词,意为"向东"

-ward(s)=in a direction

向前foreward(s) 向后 backward(s)

向外outward(s) 向南 southward(s)

向西 westward(s) 向北 northward(s)

他们向东航行。They sailed eastward

我们难以决定是向东走还是向西走。

We couldn't decide whether to go eastward or westward

thousands of 成千上万的

注意：million, billion, thousand, hundred, score, dozen之前有确定的数字时，不论后面是有无of, 词尾都不加s.

如果前面没有确定的数字而后接of时，词尾都加s.