高一英语unit5canadalistening

2. Canada encourages people to keep t_h_e_i_r_o_w_n__c_u_s_to_m__s_/l_a_n_g_u_a_g_e_s_.
3. The two official languages in Canada are _E_n_g_l_is_h_ and F__re_n_c_h_.
We have two official languages, French and English. Perhaps Chinese will soon be the third most common language in Canada! Even though we encourage people to keep their own customs, we expect everyone to learn French or English
encourage people who come to Canada to be proud of their own culture and keep their own customs. Everybody who lives here except the Native Indians came from somewhere else or their ancestors did. Canada is a mixture of many cultures and races. It is what we call a multicultural country.
China is a very large country, with many provinces and regions. It is
about 9,561,000 square kilometres in area, and 5,000 kilometres from east to west. That is one reason why it is difficult to talk about. Perhaps it is easier to compare it to Canada.
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WHAT IS A CAHADIAN? I am one of those Canadians who is very proud of my country. I listen to Canadian music, watch Canadian sports and read Canadian books. The problem is, sometimes it is not easy to know what is really Canadian. We
5. The Gobi Desert is like the grasslands in Canada. False The Gobi desert is sand and dust. The prairies in Canada are a wheat growing area where the earth does not blow away.
“Canada” means “village” and names like 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. The Toronto city government offers help to people in 70 languages.
6. More than _8_0_ languages are used in radio and TV programmes.
7. You may find areas where many Chinese, Italians and Koreans choose to live. They are called C__h_i_n_a_to_w__n_, _L_it_t_le__It_a_l_y and K__o_r_e_a_T_o_w__n_.
3. China is over 7,000 kilometres from east to west. False China is about 5,000 kilometers from east to west.
4. Many rivers in China come from the mountains in the west. True China has mountains and highlands in the west where many rivers have their sources.
6. The Great Wall cannot keep the dust of the desert away from Beijing. True Even the Great wall can’t keep the dust from blowing south.
7. Canadian people cannot talk with their neighbouring 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 other.
8. Both China and Canada have world-famous waterfalls. False Canada has the world famous waterfall, but China hasn’t yet.
CHINA AND CANADA Li Daiyu and Liu Qian were asked to tell their new Canadian friends about China. What would they talk about?
Many of our big cities have areas where people from various cultures choose to live－there might be a Chinatown, a Little Italy, a Korea Town and so on. People whose families have lived in Canada for a long time are sure to be all mixed up. My own family is a mixture of English,
4. Native Indians and Inuit are trying to keep their _la_n_g_u_a_g_e_s_ alive.
5. The speaker’s family is a mixture of _E_n_g_l_is_h_, _N_a_t_iv_e__In__d_ia_n_ and F__re_n_c_h_.
China has many of the highest mountains in the world. They are in the
west of the country, as they are in Canada, but China has more mountains and highlands where many great rivers have their sources.
2. They could not talk about all the geography of China because it is too big. True China is a very large country with many different areas to describe. It is over 9 million square kilometers in area.
课标人教实验版 高一 Module 3
Unit 5
Listening
Complete these sentences with correct information.
1. It is not easy to know what a Canadian is because _C_a_n__a_d_a_i_s_a _m__ix_t_u_r_e_o_f_m__a_n_y__cu__lt_u_r_e_s_a_n_d__ra_c_e_s_/ _p_e_o_p_l_es__w_h_o_s_e_f_a_m__il_ie_s__h_a_v_e_l_iv_e_d__in_ _C_a_n_a_d__a_f_o_r_a__lo_n_g__ti_m__e_a_r_e_s_u_r_e_t_o__ _b_e_a_l_l_m__ix_e_d__u_p_.
To the north of China are Mongolia and Russia. To the north of Canada, there are no other countries, only the Arctic ice and snow.
There is nothing in Canada like the great Gobi Desert, in the northwest of China. In winter and spring the cold air blows dust southward from the desert. Even the 6,700 kilometres Great Wall cannot keep out the dust.
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China has fifteen neighbouring countries, and its borders with these countries are over 20,000 kilometers long, Canada has only one neighbour to the south, the USA. People in both Canada and the USA speak English, so it is easy for them to talk to each other.
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True or False 1. Friends in Canada invited the two
cousins to dinner at a restaurant. False The cousins were asked to talk about China to their new Canadian friends.
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.
in order to live in Canada. If you live in the Province of Quebec, you are expected to speak French. The native people in Canada, the Native Indians and the Inuit, are trying to keep their languages alive. You can hear some of their languages in the names of rivers and lakes as well as cities.