9.98million square km2
5,500km
4,600km
the second largest country in the world
Canada is in northern North America
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Quiz Knowledge about Canada: True or False.
1. Canadians speak English and French. T
2. Toronto is the capital of Canada. F
3. Canada lies in the north of South America. F
4. Canada is the largest country in the world. F
5. Canada is on the north of USA. T
6. The national animal of Canada is polar bear. F
7. Canada is a member of the British Commonwealth. T
8. The Head of the Canadian Government is the Prime
Minister. T
Ottawa
North America
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9. How many “Great Lakes” are there in
Canada and what are they?
A. Lake Superior
B. Lake Huron
C. Lake Erie
D. Lake Ontario
E. Lake Michigan
Lake
Superior
Lake
Huron
Lake
Erie
Lake
OntarioLake
Michigan
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A brief intrduction to Canada
“The True North” is the train that
goes across Canada / the cross-
Canada train”
Who
What
Where
How
How’s the trip
Scanning Read Para1 and fill in the blanks.
A Trip on “ The True North”
Li Daiyu, her cousin Liu Qian
Visit their cousins
Montreal
By air, by train
Exciting
Read the rest text and draw the
route of the girls traveling across Canada.
Vancouver
Rocky Mountains
Calgary
Thunder Bay
Lake Superior
Toronto
Scanning
Montreal
Vancouver
Calgary
Thunder
Bay
L. Superior
Toronto
Rocky Mts.
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2
3 4
Montreal
the route of traveling across Canada
Para.2: Discussion (group work)
Many people want to live in Vancouver,
“Western Paradise”. Find out all the reasons.
1.It is Canada’s warmest place.
2.It is Canada’s most beautiful city.
3.People can ski in the mountains and
sail in the harbour.
4.The coast north of it has some of
the oldest and most beautiful forests
in the world.
So the population of Vancouver is
growing rapidly.Vancouver -- the biggest harbor
the route of traveling across Canada
Para3
• What did they see when crossing the Rocky
Mts?
• What is Calgary famous for?
Mountain goats, a grizzly bear and an eagle
Calgary Stampede
The Rocky Mountains
make up an enormous
chain of mountains
In western North America.
It extends 3,000 miles from
Canada through the United States
to Mexico.
• What kind of city is Thunder Bay?
• What surprised the girls?
Para. 4
A busy port city
The girls were surprised at the
fact that ocean ship can sail up
the Great Lakes.
Ocean ship can sail up the Great Lakes.
Roughly the size of continental Europe
a vast resource that shape the Midwestern.
Canada has one-third of the world total fresh
water, and much of it is in the Great Lakes
3. What does the word “slightly” in the text mean?
A. a bit B. a lot C. greatly D. lightly
4. 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.
Para. 4 Choose the best answer
Para 5 What’s the next stop?
Lake Superior--
the biggest one
Evening Glory Sunset Lake Superior
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 Great Lakes.
That night the train ____ ____ the top of ___ ______,
through the great forests and _______ towards _____.
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east
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coast coast eastward
surrounded
settled down
grizzly
have a gift for
went through
at the top of
rushed across Lake Superior
southwards Toronto