Book 3 Unit 5 Canada—“The True North”

Period One Warming up and Reading

学习目标

1. 了解加拿大的地理、历史、文化和人口等情况。2. 通过课文的学习，培养良好的阅读能力，特别是抓主旨大意的能力。3. 熟悉有关地理、人文方面的词汇，分析背诵课文中部分经典的句子。

重点难点积累有关国家地理、文化方面的知识，分析、背诵部分经典句子。

新知预习1. 给出下列单词或短语的意思。1) have a chat with sb.________ 2) manage to do____________3) have a gift for _____________ 4) in the distance_____________5) rather than_____________ 6) surround _________7) settle down_____________ 8) catch sight of_____________2. 速读全文，回答问题1. What language(s) do Canadians speak? And what’s the capital of Canada ？_________________________________________________________________2. How many Great Lakes are there in Canada? Have you been to Canada?_________________________________________________________________

课 堂 探 究【探究 1 】 Match the topics with each paragraph according to the text. Para 1 A. The train rushed towards Toronto Para 2 B. Li Daiyu and her cousin were on a trip to Canada Para 3 C. Canada’s border, population, agriculture and lakes Para 4 D. Talking something about Vancouver Para 5 E. Calgary famous for the Calgary Stampede

【探究 2 】 Answer the following questions:1). How did they decide to go to Montreal? _______________________________________________________________

___2).Which is Canada’s warmest part and most beautiful city?________________________________________________________________

___3). When did they see some mountain goats and even a grizzly bear and an eagl

e? ________________________________________________________________

___4). What is Calgary famous for?________________________________________________________________

___5) Why does Canada have more fresh water than any other country in the world.________________________________________________________________

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课 堂 探 究【探究 3 】 Choose the best answer according to the text. 1) Why are the two girls not flying directly to the Atlantic coast? A. Because it is too long a trip for them B. Because they want to travel across Canada C. Because there is no direct flight to Atlantic coast. D. Because it is much cheaper to get there by train. 2) Which of the following cities is described as the most beautiful city in Canada? A. Vancouver B. Calgary C. Toronto D. Montreal 3) What is “The True North” according to the text? A. The northern part of Canada B. Mountains in the north of Canada C. North America D. The cross-Canada train 4) Which of the following statements about Canada is Not true? A. Vancouver is the warmest part of Canada B. Canada is bigger than America and is the second biggest country in the worl

d. C. The cousins are able to cross Canada in less than five days. D. Most Canadians live within 320 kilometers of the USA border. 5). Who will take part in the Calgary Stampede ? A. Cowboys from Stampede B. People from Canada C. Anyone who has a gift for riding D. Cowboys from all over the world

课 堂 探 究【探究 4 】 佳句赏析 1.Some people have the idea that you can cross Canada in less than five d

ays, but they forget the fact that Canada is 5,500 kilometers from coast to coast. (P34, L8)

( 译 )___________________________________________________________ 本句为一个 _________ 复合句，其中 that you can cross Canada in less than

five days 和 that Canada is 5,500 kilometers from coast to coast 同为 _______________ 从句，补充说明名词 idea 和 fact; from coast to coast 指 from the east coast to the west coast.

2. It is so wet there that the trees are extremely tall, some measuring over 90 metres. (P34, L14)

( 译 )____________________________________________________________so…that 引导 _______ 状语从句， some measuring over 90 metres 是 _______

__ 形式作定语，相当于定语从句 some of which measure over 90 metres 或并列句and some of them measure over 90 metres.

独立主格结构常见形式为：名词 / 代词 +doing/done/to do/adj/ 介词词组等，它们在句子中作原因、伴随、条件等状语。

如： Weather permitting(=If weather permits), I’ll go climbing with you. 如果条件允许，我和你一起去爬山。

My work finished(=After my work was finished), I went home. 做完作业后，我就回家了。

课 堂 探 究

【探究 5 】课文研读

1. Find out the sentences in the text which have similar meanings with the following ones

1)They were determined to go to Vancouver by air and then west to east across Canada by train instead of flying all the way.

______________________________________________________________ 2) It was exciting when they thought that they could cross the whole continent.

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2. Translate the sentence.The coast north of Vancouver has some of the oldest and most beautiful fores

ts in the world. (P34, L13)

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达 标 练 习

Complete the following according to the text, then try to retell it.

Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian took a 1)_________ to Canada to visit their cousins in Montreal. Instead of taking the 2)___________, they decided to take the train 3) ________to 4)________across Canada. Their friend, Danny Lin, took them to the train station to catch “The True North”. Canada is a very big country in the world. It is 5)__________kilometers from coast to coast. As they went 6)___________, they saw beautiful 7)___________as well as large cities. Vancouver is Canada’s most beautiful city, which is 8)___________by mountains and the 9)___________Ocean. When the cousins crossed the Rocky Mountains, they 10)___________to catch sight of some mountain goats and even a 11)________.Calgary is famous for its Calgary Stampede. Many of the cowboys from all over the world have a(n) 12)_________for riding wild horses. Then they 13)_______________a wheat-growing province. After that, they were back in a(n) 14)_________area, the busy port city of Thunder Bay at the top of the Great Lakes. They learned that because of the Great Lakes, Canada has more 15)__________ water than any other country in the world.