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Unit 5 Canada—“The True North”
Teaching aims
Skill Goals
Talk about the basic information about Canada— location, main cities, customs and cultural diversity.
Learn how to read a traveling report and use maps.
Learn to express directions and positions.
Master the Noun Clause- Appositive clause.
Learn to write a report to express what you hear and see in a place.
Important sentences
Where is...?
How does one go to...?
In what direction is...?
Is... close to/far from...?
How far is...?
It is/lies in the north/south of...
It is/lies to the south/east/northwest of...
It is within...
Kilometers of...
It is/lies on the west/east.
Teaching importance
Noun clause as the appositive
Teaching methods: skimming, scanning, discussing.Teaching aids: a tape recorder, a projector and a computer.
Teaching procedures
The first period Reading (I)
Step 1 Revision
Check the students’ homework.
T: Before we come to the new lesson, let’s check your homework.
The teacher checks the assignment of the last class.
Step 2 Lead-in and Warming Up
Show the students the maple flag and ask them some questions.
T: Do you know which country uses this national flag?
Ss: Canada.
T: Which continent is Canada in?
Ss: It is in North America.
T: How large is it?
Ss: I only know it is the second largest country in the world. I don’t know the exact number.
T: Canada occupies an area of 9, 978, 4670 square kilometers. It is a bit bigger than China. Which country is its neighbor?
Ss: The United States.
(The teacher shows a map of Canada to the students.)
T: Right. The United State is its neighbor. Canada is a beautiful country. First let’s have a quiz and see how much you know about Canada. Please turn to Page33. I will give you one minute to choose your answers. You can score 2 points for each correct answer.
Give one minute to the students to do the quiz.
One minute later.
T: OK. Time is up. Let’s check the answers.
1. C 2. D 3. A 4. B 5. A
T: Now figure out your score please. If you get 10 points, you did a good job. Did you do a good job? If not, it doesn’t matter. The reading passage is about a trip to Canada. It will tell us more information about this country.
Step 3 Pre-reading
T: Now I want to ask you a question. Do you like traveling?
Ss: Yes, we like traveling very much. (No, I don’t like traveling. It is tiring.)
T: I know most of us like traveling. Have you ever been abroad?
Ss: No / Yes.
T: Few of us have ever been abroad. Then what is the longest trip you have ever taken?
Sa: Beijing (Shanghai / Hainan / Harbin).
Sb: I have never been out of my hometown.
T: If you get a chance to go abroad, which three countries would you like to visit most? Why?
If you take a trip to Canada, what do you expect to see?
What three words would you use to describe Canada?
The teacher can ask some pairs to tell their ideas in class.
Step 4 Fast reading
Get the students read the passage quickly and carefully. Meanwhile, help the students form a good habit of reading. T: Do you feel puzzled when you read the title? What is “the True North”? Now, read the passage and get the general idea of the passage. Underline the main places mentioned in the text.
Give the Ss five minutes for reading.
Ask: what the passage is mainly about?
Sa: The passage is about a trip of two girls, and it tells us some information about Canada.
T: Right. It mainly tells us the information about Canada. What are the main places mentioned in the text?
Sb: They are the Atlantic coast, Vancouver, Rocky Mountains, Calgary, Thunder Bay, Lake Superior and Toronto.
T: Look at the map on Page33. Draw the traveling route of the two girls on the map.
Give the students one minute to draw the route.
T: You did a good job. Do you have any difficulty in reading? Let’s look at the difficult points together.
The teacher explains some important or difficult points to the students.
Step 5 Reading aloud
Let the students read the passage again and find the details from the passage.
T: Now you read the questions on Page35 first, and then read the text aloud to find the answers to the questions. After a while, answer the questions in complete sentences without looking at your books.
Give the students a few minutes to read and find answers. Then ask some students to give their answers.
Suggested answers:
(Show them on the screen.)
1. They are not flying directly to the Atlantic Coast because they want to travel across Canada.
2. They are crossing the North America.
3. “The True North” is the train that runs through Canada.
4. People want to live in Vancouver because it is very beautiful. They can ski in the Rocky Mountains and sail in harbour.
5. Cowboys compete in riding wild horses, and some of them can win thousands of dollars.
6. Wheat grows in the center of Canada.
7. Ships are able to reach the center because they can follow the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes.
8. Canada has water from its lakes and rivers and wood from its forests.
Let the students do Exercise 2 by themselves. Then check the answers with the whole class.
1. The girls went to see their relatives on the Atlantic coast of Canada.
2. Danny Lin was going to drive them to the train station to catch the “the True North”.
3. You can’t cross Canada in five days by bike, and you can’t cross Canada in less than five days by train.
4. The girls looked out of the window and saw a grizzly bear, mountain goats and wild scenery.
5. Thunder Bay is a port city at the top end of the Great Lakes, near the center of the country.
Step 6 Listening and fill in the blanks
(1)Listening
T: Listen to the tape and underline some important sentences. Pay attention to your pronunciation. You can follow the tape in a low voice.
1. Rather than take the aeroplane all the way, they decided to fly from China to Vancouver.
2. It is the second biggest country in the world.
3. It is so wet there that the trees are extremely tall.
4. Many of them have a gift for working with animals and can win thousands of dollars in prizes.
5. There is more fresh water in Canada than in any other country in the world.
6. We don’t leave until this evening.
7. They were not leaving for Montreal until later...
8. The idea that they would cross the whole continent was exciting.
9. The fact that ocean ships can go there surprises many people.
10. The idea that you can cross Canada in less than five days is just wrong.
(2)Fill in the blanks
Li Daiyu and Liu Qian took the train in Canada from ____ to ___ . Their cousins’ friend, Danny Lin, took them to the train station to catch “___ ___ ___”. Canada is the ___biggest country in the world. It is 5,500 kilometers from ___ to___. As they go___, they saw beautiful scenery as well as cities. Vancouver is___ by mountains on the north and east. When the cousins___ ___in the seats, they looked out of the window. They saw mountain goats and even a bear. Calgary is famous for its competition. Many of the cowboys from all over North America___ ___ ___ ___ ___ working with animals. Then they ___ ___ a wheat-growing province. Thunder Bay is a busy port. It is ___ ___ the center of the country.
Suggested answers:
1. west; east 2. The True North 3. second 4. coast; coast
5. eastward 6. surrounded 7. settled down 8. grizzly 9. have a gift for
10. went through 11. close to
Step 7 Homework
1. Remember the underlined sentences.
2. Write a short passage to report what Li Daiyu and Liu Qian saw in Canada.
The second period Reading (II)
Step 1 Warming up
Show the map of Toronto and the picture of CN Tower,
Toronto from the CN Tower. Niagara Falls, Chinatown
Old Montreal, St. Lawrence River
Step 2 reading
1. Do the exercises ------Fill in the blanks.
2.Answer the questions about the passage
1. How do we know it is fall in Canada?
2. What can sometimes be seen from the CN Tower in Toronto?
3.Where does the water from the lake go?
4.Why is there good Cantonese food in Toronto?
5.Which direction is the train going from Toronto?
6. Why did the girls go to Old Montreal?
7. What three things show us that Montreal is a French city?
Step 3 Language points
1. They were not leaving for Montreal until later, so they went on a tour of the city
1) They were not leaving for...属于过去进行时表示将来的动作。
2) until/till 直到…为止
until常与否定句连用, not…until 直到…才
He didn’t finish the work until yesterday.
2. We can get good Cantonese food here, because most of the Chinese people here come from South China, especially Hong Kong.
especially表示“尤其, 格外,特别”,意思相当于“in particular ”或“particularly”。多用在介词短语或连词前面。
3. It’s too bad you can’t go as far as Ottawa.
as far as (程度副词) “远达，远至”
He walked as far as the railway station yesterday evening.
一些带有as...as 结构的常见短语：
as busy as a bee 像蜜蜂一样忙碌
as easy as ABC 像ABC一样容易
as deep as a well 像井一样深
as light as a feather 像羽毛一样轻
as soft as butter 像黄油一样软
as rich as a Jew 像犹太人一样富裕
4. The train left late that night and arrived in Montreal at dawn the next morning.火车在那夜晚些时候起程,第二天黎明到达了蒙特利尔。
at, on, in表示时间的用法区别
at表示时间点,常用来表示时刻,如果一段时间按时间点对待也用at。
Step 4 Reading Task on page 73
1 Read the passage and answer the following questions
1). Why did the reporter arrive there?
2). What did the people use for transportation?
3). Why did it become dark early?
2 Compare China with Canada
Step 5 Homework
1. Read the two passages again and find the main characters of Toronto, Montreal and Iqaluit. What can you see and do in the three different cities.
2. Read Fun Reading by yourself. (P75)
The third period Learning about language
Step 1 Grammar
同位语从句
1. 概念:
2. 功能:
同位语从句对名词进一步解释，说明名词的具体内容。
3. 用法:
常跟的抽象名词有: fact/ idea/reason/ thought/order/ doubt/news/hope/ truth/belief …
4. 连词
that/whether/who/ which/ what /when /where/why/how
同位语从句与定语从句区别:
Then do some exercises
I.合并成一句:
We were excited at the news. Our football team had won a third match .
They have made a new plan. Another experiment building will be put up beside the library.
3. They had the question. Could he pass the final exam?
4. Who did the damaged computer belong to? No one had any idea.
5.The problem has been solved. Why were so many areas flooded during the heavy storm?
Step 2 Discovering useful structures
1.
The idea that they would cross the
whole continent was exciting.
The idea that you can cross Canada in
less than five days is just wrong.
The fact that ocean ships can go there
surprises many people
2.
The possibility that the weather in
winter would be warmer pleased the
Canadians.
The idea that there will be an
earthquake terrifies many people.
The hope that we could go to France
was exciting.
Step 3 Using structures on 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.
Step 4 Homework on P70
1. Exercise 2. Translate the sentences into English.
2. Exercise 3. Make up a story using the given words and expressions.
The fourth period Listening
Step 1 Listening
1 Listen to the tape and then Complete these sentences with correct information.
2 Hand out the listening material and listen to the tape ,then ask them to complete the passage
Step 2 Listening on 69
Listen to the tape and do the True or False
1. Friends in Canada invited the two cousins to dinner at a restaurant.
False
2. They could not talk about all the geography of China because it is too big.
True
3. China is over 7,000 kilometres from east to west.
False
4. Many rivers in China come from the mountains in the west.
True
5. The Gobi Desert is like the grasslands in Canada.
False
6. The Great Wall cannot keep the dust of the desert away from Beijing.
True
7. Canadian people cannot talk with their neighbouring country because they do not speak English.
False
8. Both China and Canada have world-famous waterfalls.
False
Step 3 Listening text
Listen to the tape again and complete the passage
Step 4 Homework
Read the listening text and remember the information about Canada
The fifth period Speaking and writing
Step 1 Warming up
Show the students some questions to discuss
Which official language do you think most people speak?
Why do you think so?
Why would you want to know that?
Is it important to know that?
Why is the Chinese language growing so fast in Canada?
Can you answer the question “ what is a Canada?”
Step 2 Talking on page69
Imagine that you and your partner are Li Daiyu and Liu Qian. You have visited many places from west to east as well as Iqaluit. What would you talk about when you travel?
Step 3 Writing
Write a report for Li Daiyu or Liu Qian
First give the sample of the report
Step 4 Writing Task on Page74
Show the map of China and discuss something of the map
Then give the sample to the students
Sample Tour Plan
Step 5 Homework
1. Write a passage. Introduce our hometown to the visitors. In what direction is it of the capital of our province? What does a visitor can see and hear in our hometown?
2. Finish summing up on Page40 after class.
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