高一英语 The True North课件

However, the Native Indians and the Inuit of Canada are still trying to keep their languages alive. You can hear some of their languages in the names of rivers and lakes as well as cities.
LQ: There is nowhere to sit on the beach in winter in Canada!
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Oscar Peterson
Hometown
Montreal
Job
Kind of music Number of recordings and CDS Plays with…
LD=Li Daiyu LQ= Liu Qian
LD: China is a very large country. It’s about 9,600,000 square kilometres in area, and 5,000 kilometres from east to west. It’s so big that it’s difficult to describe. Perhaps it’s easier to compare it to Canada.
2. Canardaaceiss a mixture of ____________ and ______.
3. yIfouyoaurelievxepeinctethdetopsrpoevaikncFereonfch Quebec, _____________________________ .
4. Native Indians and Inuit are trying ktoee_p_t_h_e_ir_l_a_n_g_u_a_ge_s_a_l_iv_e______.
LD: China’s Gobi Desert, in the northwest of China, is very special. There is nothing similar in Canada. In winter and spring sometimes the cold air blows dust southward from the Gobi Desert to the northern parts of China. Even the Great Wall cannot keep out the dust.
LISTENING TEXT
A COMPARISON OF CHINA AND CANADA
Li Daiyu and Liu Qian’s Canadian friends asked them to tell them something about China. The two cousins decided to present a short report together, comparing China and Canada.
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True or False 1. China is over 7,000 kilometres
from east to west. False China is about 5,000 kilometres from east to west.
2. Both China and Canada have mountains in the west of the country. True
“Canada” means “village”. Toronto and Ottawa are also Native Indian names. There are radio and television programs and newspapers and magazines in over 80 different languages across Canada, and the Toronto city government offers help to people in 70 languages.
LD: China has two countries to the north, Mongolia and Russia, unlike Canada, which has no countries to its north, but only the Arctic ice and snow.
LQ: China has fourteen neighbouring countries. Its borders are over 20,000 kilometres long. Canada, however, has only one neighbour, the USA to the south. Both Canadians and Americans speak English, but it’s not so easy for Chinese to talk with their neighbours, even if they live close to the border.
Native Indian and French. My neighbour’s family is Chinese, German and African!
So when I say that I am proud to be a Canadian, maybe you can help me decide what a Canadian is.
LQ: China has many of the highest mountains in the world. They’re in the west of the country, as they are in Canada, but China has more mountains where many great rivers begin.
LD: Canada, however, has nothing like China’s southern island of Hainan. While it is snowing and freezing in Mohe in north China on the Chinese-Russian border, people nearly 5,500 kilometres south in Hainan can sit on the beach in the sunshine.
We have two official languages, French and English.
Even though we encourage people to keep their own customs, we expect everyone to learn French or English in order to live in Canada. If you live in the province of Quebec, you are expected to speak French.
5. More than 8_0___ languages are used in radio and TV programmes.
6. You may find areas where many _p_eo_p_l_e_f_ro_m__t_h_e_s_a_m_e_c_u_l_tu_r_e_____ live near each other.
Musician/piano player
Jazz
Over 150 His music group/ the greatest jazz musicians in history
Dr Nancy Olivieri
Hometown
Toronto
Job
Doctor/medical researcher
Unit 5 Canada --The True NorLeabharlann Baiduh
Listening
Complete these sentences with
correct information.
1. Canada encourages people to tkheeeirpown customs/languages __________________m__a_n_y_c_u_lt.ures
7. The familieswho lived in Canada for__a_lo_n_g__ti_m_e_________ _____________ are usually all
mixed up.
Listening text
WHAT IS A CAHADIAN? I am a Canadian and very proud of my country. However, people sometimes don’t know what being Canadian really means. People who come to Canada are encouraged to be proud of their own culture and keep their own customs.
3. The Great Wall cannot keep the desert’s . True
4. China has 15 neighbouring countries while Canada only has one. True
5. Canadians cannot talk with people in their neigbouring country because they do not speak English. False People in both Canada and the USA speak English. So it is easy for them to talk to each
LQ: Both China and Canada have long rivers and many lakes as well as busy port cities on the Pacific Ocean. China is famous for the third longest river in the world, the Changjiang River, and Canada has the famous Niagara Falls.
Many of our big cities have areas where people from the same culture live near each other －there might be a Chinatown, a Little Italy, a Korea Town and so on. However, people whose families have lived in Canada for a long time are usually all mixed up. My own family is a mixture of English,
Except for the Native Indians, everybody else who lives here came from another country or their ancestors did. Canada is a mixture of many cultures and races. It is what we call a multicultural country.