人教版必修三Unit 5 Canada导学案

Unit 5 Canada–“The True North”

Warming up and Reading

I. Learning aims:

1. Understand some information 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.

4. Strengthen the ability to read a passage.

II. Learning important points:

1. Strengthen the ability to read a passage.

2. Be aware of the content of this passage.

III. Learning procedure

Step 1. Warming up

1) Where is Canada?

2) What’s your first impression of Canada?

3) Let’s have a QUIZ to see how much you know about Canada. Step 2. Reading: A TRIP ON “THE TRUE NORTH”

Task-1 Fast reading

1.) What does “The True North” refer to in the passage?

A. Canada

B. a train (the cross-Canada train)

2.) What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Canada is “the true north”.

B. a trip of two girls across Canada by train.

C. Vancouver is most beautiful city in Canada.

D. Canada is empty.

3) Which cities were passed? (In time order)

1) Vancouver 2) Thunder Bay

3) Calgary 4) Toronto

__________ → __________ → __________ → __________

Task-2 Careful reading

Para. 1

Read the 1st paragraph and finish the chart below.

Para. 2: Their chat on their way to the station

1.) Who was waiting at the airport? __________

2.) What can they see during the journey?

_________________________________________________ (Vancouver)

Para. 3 They crossed______________________

They managed to catch sight of

_______________________________________________________ ___.

Para 3 The next stop--Calgary

1.) What is Calgary famous for? ___________________

2.) Many of the _________ have a gift for riding wild horses and they can win thousands of dollars in ______.

Para. 4 characteristics(特点):____________

Why did they begin to realize that Canada is quite empty?

_______________________________________________ ______________________________________________. Para. 4 ____________

Thunder Bay is a ________ city.

Where is Thunder Bay?

It is at the top of the _______________.

Canada has ______________ the world’s total fresh water; and much of it is in ______________.

Para. 5: the last stop in this passage: __________

Task-3 Summary

1.) What do we learn from this passage?

It is about a ______ of two girls to visit their cousin.

Their route is…

2.) From the passage we can get a General impression of Canada

_________: mountains, lakes forests, wide rivers , large cities Size: 5,500 km from _______ to ________coast

Population: _________ over thirty million, most Canadians live

_________ a few hundred km of the USA border Agriculture: wheat farms covered thousands of ________

Natural resources (资源): has one-third of the world’s _____ water Homework

Finish the exercises on page 35 with what we have learned today.