A trip on “ the true north”●First step: Warming upThis quiz is intended to find out how much general knowledge your students already have about Canada.1.What language(s) do Canadians speak?A. EnglishB. English and GermanC. English and FrenchD. English and Spanish2. What is the capital of Canada?A. VancouverB. TorontoC. CalgaryD. Ottawa3. What is the national animal of Canada?A. BeaverB. Grizzly bearC. Polar bearD. Penguin4. What is the leader of the country called?A. PresidentB. Prime MinisterC. Queen5. How many “Great Lakes” are there in Canada?A. 4B. 3C. 5D. 6You score two points for each correct answer.10 is best, 8 is good and 6 is OK.●Second step: Pre-readingThe pre-reading questions encourage students to reflect on their personal experiences andinformation and their own ideas.1.What is the longest trip you have ever taken?2. Would you like to take a trip to Canada? What do you expect to see there?●Third step: Readinga. Show a picture and ask: What is “The True North”?----“The True North” is the train that goes across Canada/the cross-Canada train.b. Fast reading: Ask students to read through the text fast and find the places mentioned in thetext on the map and draw the route of the two girls travelling across Canada.C . Careful reading and prehending: Questions1. Why are the cousins not flying direct to the Atlantic coast?2. What is the continent they are crossing?3. Why do many people want to live in Vancouver?4. When they crossed the Rocky Mountains, what wild animals did they see?5. What happens at the Calgary Stampede?6. Where does wheat grow in Canada?7. Name two natural resources that Canada has. Find the answer in thereading passage.Answers:1. They are not flying directly to the Atlantic Coast because they want totake the train from west to East across Canada/ they want to see Canada/they want to travelacross Canada.2. They are crossing North America.3. People want to live in Vancouver because it is beautiful;because it is surrounded by mountains and ocean;because they can ski in the mountains and sail in the harbour.4. 5. At the Calgary Stampede cowboys pete in riding wild horses;they can win thousands of dollars for riding wild horses.6.7. Canada has water from its lakes and rivers and wood from its forests.d. write sentences with correct information1. The girls went to Canada to see their relatives in Montreal.2. Danny Lin was going to drive them to Vancouver.3. You can cross Canada in less than five days by bicycle.4. The girls looked out the windows and saw Native Indians and cowboys.5. Thunder Bay is a port city in the south of Canada, near Toronto.Fourth step: Using the information and at least ten words from the readingpassage, make a dialogue between Li Daiyu and Lui Qian aboutwhat they have seen and done on their trip. Use at least threesentences for each person. The first one has been done for you.Li Daiyu: What did you like best on the trip from Vancouver to Toronto?Liu Qian: My favourite part was seeing the grizzly bear in the mountains.Li Daiyu: ….Liu Qian: …“The True North” From Toronto To MontrealStep 1 Ask Ss to read the topic and ask: What two places will we go to today?Have you heard about Toronto and Montreal?Step 2 Fast readingRead fast and divide the text into two parts.Pa 1-4 TorontoPa 5-6 MontrealStep 3 Careful reading1.read Pa 1-4 careful and find outWhat is the season? How do you know?(fall red maple trees frost)They saw mountain goats and even a grizzly bear.Wheat grows in the center of Canada.2.read Pa5-6 and find outDo you find anything special in Montreal?(It’s a French city)What show that it’s a French city?(speak F rench signs and ads in French)Which places did they visit in Montreal?①downtown lovely shops artists in workplaces②St Lawrence River broadStep 4 :Fill in the blanks.Toronto is the most wealthy and biggest city in Canada. There is the tall CN Tower and the famous Niagara Falls, which is beautiful with misty cloud that rises from it. There is also covered stadium and three Chinatowns where you can get good Cantonese food.Montreal has a French culture. People speak both French and English. There were signs and ads in French. It’s nice to sit in a café, looking over the broad Stlawrence River.Step 5 language points1.wealthy /wealthOne percent of the people owned more than fifty percent of the wealth.He has earned a great deal of money and is now very wealthy.2.not…untilThey worked until 5:00 P.M. and then quit.They didn’t stop working until 5:00 P.M. and then quit.他们等着(不离开)直到雨止.They waited until the rain stopped.They didn’t leave until the rain stopped.3.go on a tour / a trip / a visit /a picnic4.in the distanceThe distance from my house to school is two blocks.A ship could be seen in the distance.It looks beautiful from a distance.5.rise/raisePrices have risen quickly.He raised his voice and shouted at the boy.He rose from his chair when the door bell rang.I was raised by my aunt.6.downtownHe works in a downtown office.Let’s go downtown today.7.as far asA young girl like her can only go as far as the river side.As far as I know, Toronto is a beautiful city.8.It’s about four hundred kilometers northeast of Toronto…我们学校位于公园南面500米处.Our school is 500 metres south of the park.塔位于城市东南1000 米处The tower is 1000 metres southeast of the city.9.at dawnat daybreak at sunrise at sunset at noon at dusk at night at midnight10.in small letters 用.以He expressed his idea in simple English.A message was written in pencil.He paid me in dollars.The room is painted in bright colours.11.be close toget close to12.Montreal is a city with wonderful restaurants and clubs.有条小溪,两边都是树.There was a little stream with green grass and big trees on both sides.这是个明亮的房间,金黄色的地板,粉红色的窗帘.It’s a bright room with golden floor and pink curtains.13.asA look of surprise came into her eyes as she read the message.As she sang, the tears ran down her cheeks.Step 6 Fill in the blanks.Last year, we went on a tour to WangShan. In the distance, we can see misty cloud rise among mountains. We climb as high as we can and look down from the top. The next morning, we got up at dawn to watch sunrise in the place which is 800 metres north of our hotel. WangShan is a place with wonderful sceneries.Step 7 Let students introduce Toronto and Montreal.Step 8 Ask students to introduce Taizhou, using words and phrases from the text. Then write it down.Period 3 Learning about LanguageTeaching aims and demands:1. Review the words and phrases in the text2. Let the students master appositive clause, especially the differences between appositive clause and attributive clause.Teaching proceduresStep I Revision & PresentationAsk the Ss to make a dialogue between Li Daiyu and Liu Qian about what they have seen and done on their trip, using the given questions, the information and some useful words from the reading passage. LI DAIYU: What do Canada and China have in mon?LIU QIAN: …LI DAIYU: What did you like best on the trip from Vancouver to Toronto?LIU QIAN: …LI DAIYU: Which city impressed you most?LIU QIAN: …LI DAIYU: Where did you see mountains, and thousands of lakes, forests and wide rivers as well as cities?LIU QIAN: …LI DAIYU: If you had a choice, would you pete in riding wild horses with the cowboys?LIU QIAN: ……eastward; on the north/west; great scenery; coast; harbor; port; surrounded by ; settle down; extremely; within…border; have a gift for; slightly; ...Step II Learning about language1. show students two words “multicultural” and “eastwards” then explain them in detail.1). multicultural = multi- + cultural multi- = manyAsk students to guess the words with the help of the given situations and use them to make sentences.(1). With the development of the hi-tech, we can enjoy various of TV programs through a lot of channels. (multichannel)(2). To save the space, people have to live in the buildings with many stories. (multistory)(3). In our country, there are altogether 55 minorities. (multinational)(4). In many countries like America, Republic Party is not the only party. (multiparty)(5). The newly developed software can be used for solving different problems. (multipurpose)(6). Our school provides teachers with several medias such as TVs, radios, puters and projects. (multimedia)2). eastwards = east + wards- wards- = in a directionAsk students to finish these sentences with proper words.(1). His foot caught in a rock and he pitched farwards.(2). In winter, swallows that breed in the north and migrate southwards.(3). Young people who like adventure training will join in the outwards Bound Movement.2. Match the words and expressions with their meanings.to a great degree extremelyhave a natural ability for have a gift forstop talking or doing something in an excited way settle downthe area where the land meets the sea coastto be all around someone or something surrounda place where water is calm and ships can be safe harbourthink about a problem until you find the answer figure outtown with a harbour portinside a certain area within3. According to the words or expressions, make sentences by using some of the words above.(1). in the North Pole, can’t imagine how cold it is(2). upset, hardly … in anything(3). know how much sth. will cost(4). expect, sb. can afford(5). enjoy a good view of beautiful scenery by the sea(6). prison, hall walls(7). be born to be a musicianStep II Reading and Using language1. Read the following passage about Canada and then give a proper title to each paragraph.Firstly, T only shows the first part and use the following questions as a guide.Qs:What ‘s the paragraph about?(Geography of Canada)What’s the feature of the geography of Canada?(vast land)Would you fill in the missing words?Geography: vast landCanada is the world's second largest country after Russia. Canada is thinly populated, however, with much of the land too cold or too mountainous for human settlement most Canadians live within 300km (186 miles) of the southern border.Surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and PacificOcean to the west., Canada’s boundaries span (跨越) the widest portion (一部分) of the NorthAmerica continent, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, from the United States along the 49th Parallel in the south to the North Pole, Arctic Ocean and Beaufort Sea in the north. The entire expanse of Canada covers 9,976,140 km²(Land: 9,220,970 km²and Water: 755,170 km²) about 1.3 times the size of Australia and over 40 times the size of the United Kingdom.Varied ClimateCanada‘s c limate is not as cold all year around as some may believe. In winter, temperatures fall below freezing point throughout most of Canada, especially in Nunavut where it is extremely cold. But the south-western coast has a relatively mild climate. Along the Arctic Circle, mean temperatures are below freezing for seven months a year. During the summer months the southern provinces oftenexperience high levels of humidity (潮湿) and temperatures that can surpass 30 degrees Celsius regularly. Western and south-eastern Canada experience high rainfall, but the Prairies (大草原) are drywith 250 mm to 500 mm of rain every year.Multi-national populationCanada has a widely spread population of 31,413,990 (July xx). Almost 35% of Canadians are of British descent, 20% French and Italian, Chinese, Ukrainian, Dutch, Greek, Polish and Scandinavian make up a large portion of the population.The aboriginal people who account for 470,000 Native Indians and 32,000 Inuit (the Eskimos of Canada) are much less than when the Europeans first inhabited Canada. There are also about 450,000Metis, the name used to denote (指代) those of mixed aboriginal and European blood. All together thisgroup of inhabitants accounts for around 4% of the population.Multicolorful ReligionCanada is a multicultural country, and so it‘s no surprise that there are a wide variety of religions practiced in Canada as well. Although Canada began as a Christian country and Christianity continues to dominate, i t’s not easy to f igure out how many spiritual beliefs that cover all corners of the country.CitiesThere are ten provinces in all and three territories in Canada. Newfoundland and Labrador are the furthest east and were the latest to join Canada; formerly they were a British colony. The Maritimes consist of Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Quebec is the French speaking province and shares most of the heavy industry in Canada with Ontario. The Canadian capital is Ottawa, located on the Ontario-Quebec border. Westwards are the prairie provinces and then British Columbia on the Pacific coast. North of British Columbia is the Yukon Territory which extends north to the Arctic Ocean with the Northwest Territories. The newest territory is Nunavut which extends throughout the Eastern Arctic with Greenland its nearest neighbor to the east. It used to be a part of the Northwest Territories and is totally isolated from the rest of the country except by aircraft and for the most part supplied by ship during a very short summer season. Most people there have a gift for riding dog sled.2. prehending.(1). Based on the information, what do you think of the idea that we take a trip to Canada in the wintervacation?The idea that we a trip to Canada in the winter vacation is very exciting.(2). Do you think the statement that Canada is the largest country is right?The statement that Canada is the largest country is wrong.(3). How do you find the fact that Nunavut is totally isolated from the rest of the country?The fact that Nunavut is totally isolated from the rest of the country surprises us.(4). Is it possible that Nunavut is supplied by ship during winter?The possibility that Nunavut is supplied by ship during the winter does not exist.3. Match the parts of the sentences in this exercise. P37(1). The possibility that the weather in winter would be warmer pleased the Canadians.(2). The idea that there will be an earthquake terrifies many people.(3). The hope that we could go to France was exciting.(4). The fact that more and more people settle down in Canada surprises me.(5). The belief that the world is flat is not scientific.4. Answer key for Exercise 1 P71:(1). His suggestion that we should take the train from west to east across Canada sounds very exciting.(2). The idea that they would clone the first human being surprised many people at the meeting.(3). He broke the rule that no one is allowed to smoke on the campus.(4).The Chinese basketball fans were wild with joy when they heard the news that Yao Ming had collected forty points for the Houston Rockets in the game.(5). Mary left a message with me for you that she won’t be able to see you off this afternoon.(6). There is no doubt that he is the right person for this job.(7). In the letter he expressed the hope that he would e and visit China again.(8). The captain gave the order that all the soldiers should reach the village before dawn.(9). Not everyone present agrees to his thoughts that it is impossible to finish the work before the end of this month.5. Read the following passage and make some ments for questions about what karl Augenstein did and email them to him. Use at least two noun clauses as appositives. The beginning of the email has been given.This is the journal of my bicycle trip across Canada in the summer of xx. It started with a couple of side trips, one in the USA, the other in Canada. I left home on the 22nd of June and returned on the 5th of September.The ride covered 4,674miles(7,539 kilometres). The trip itself took 65 days, 55 riding and 10 rest days. I didn’t do this on my own. I was one of 24 people who set off from Vancouver on June 29 as part of the Tour du Canada.I’d love to hear from you --- ments, corrections or questions are wele. My address is kaugenstein@. Send me an email.Dear Mr Karl Augenstein,The story that you had a bicycle trip across Canada in the summer is very exciting ...Step III Grammar同位语从句Notes一、同位语从句的概念二、同位语从句的引导词三、其后常用同位语从句的名词四、同位语从句与定语从句的区别同位语从句，即从句在句中作主语或宾语的同位语，是对句子主语或宾语的解释、说明。
