Unit 5 Canada—”The True North”
Maple Country
-- Canada
READING AND LANGUAGE
Now let’s have a quiz and see how much you know about Canada.
Quiz
B.
1. Which is the national flag of Canada?
A.
C.
D.
2. What language(s) do Canadians speak?
A. English.
B. English and German.
C. English and French.
D. English and Spanish.
3. What is the capital of Canada?
A. B.
Vancouver (温哥华) Toronto (多伦多)
C. D.
Calgary (卡尔加里) Ottawa (渥太华)
the biggest city
the warmest and most beautiful city
the industrial center
4. What is the national animal of Canada?
B.

Beaver (海狸) Grizzly bear (灰熊)
C. D.

Polar bear (北极熊) Penguin(企鹅)
5. What is the leader of the country called?
President
Prime Minister
Queen
D. Chairman
加拿大总理--斯蒂芬·哈珀
(Stephen Harper)
6. How many Great Lakes are there in
Canada?
A. 4.
B. 3.
C. 5.
D. 6.
How many “Great Lakes” are there in Canada?
the five great lakes
密歇根湖
7. Canada is the ______ largest country
in the world.
A. 2nd
B. 3rd
C. 4th
D. 5th
8. How large is it?
A. 9.98 million km²
B. 9.60 million km²
C. 9.96 million km²
D. 9.98 million km
9.How many provinces are there in Canada？
A. 13 B. 10
C. 14 D. 23
Arctic
position
Canada is in northern North America
Pacific
Atlantic
太平洋
大西洋
北极
7. Where is Canada located?
In Canada, people from many cultures live together.
Canada is a ____________
country.
multicultural
A TRIP
ON “ THE TRUE NORTH”
Reading
Pre-reading
Predict:
What does “The True North” refer to in the text?
1. It is the name of a train.
2. Canada is located in the northern North America.
3. It is named after a line from the
Canadian National Anthem.
“The True North”
Li Daiyu Liu Qian
to __________________
visit their cousins
Scanning
Part 1
Read the 1st para. and finish the chart below.
Montreal, Canada
plane
train
para2:Their chat on their way to the station
What can they see during the journey?
mountains
lakes
forests
wide rivers
large cities
Its population is increasing rapidly
Para. 2 (Vancouver)

surrounded by mountains and the Pacific Ocean
warm and wet
skiing and sailing
the oldest and most beautiful forests
the Rocky Mountains
They managed to catch sight of _______
___________________________________
________________.
some mountain goats and even a grizzly
bear and an eagle
Para 3
They crossed______________________
Calgary 卡尔加里
Para 3 The next stop--Calgary
Para. 3 (Calgary)
What is Calgary famous for?
Stampede （美国西部或加拿大)
大西部赛马会
The _________
have a gift for
riding wild
horses and
they can win
thousands of
dollars in ______.
cowboys
prizes
Why did they begin to realize that Canada is quite empty?
Para. 4 charateristics(特点):____________
empty
Because there are only slightly over thirty million people living on such a huge land and most of them live within the areas of the USA border.
A wheat-growing province
farms: covers thousands of acres(亩).
Para. 4 ____________
Thunder Bay
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 ______________.
busy port
Great Lakes
one third of
the Great Lakes
Para 5 :the last stop:
Toronto
Read the text quickly and quietly to fill in the blanks and match the main idea of the 3 parts
Part 1
Para(s)___

Part 2
Para(s)___

Part 3
Para(s)____
What they really saw and felt after boarding the train

brief introduction of their trip

Their chat on their way to the station
1
2
3-5
1.Find out what these numbers refer to?
5,500

thirty



one-third
Canada is 5,500 km from coast to coast.
The population of Canada is only slightly over thirty million
Canada has one-third of the world’sfresh water
Line10
Line 24
Line 28
加拿大从东海岸到西海岸共有5500公里。
加拿大的人口也只有三千万多一点儿。
加拿大拥有全世界三分之一的淡水量。
5,500km
1.--- were on a trip to Canada ---
trip: usually short journey, esp. for pleasure (通常指短途的)行走，旅行（尤指娱乐性的）
与trip搭配的主要动词和介词：
海滨之行 __________________
前往巴黎的蜜月之旅 __________________________
他出差在外。He is _____________________.
我父亲下礼拜要到纽约去。
My father will _______________________ next week.
a trip to the seaside
a honeymoon trip to Paris
on a business trip
make a trip to New York
be /go on a trip to make/take a trip to
2.You rather than I am going camping.
×
are
强调 rather than 前面的人或事物
Canada rather than other countries _________ (be) the place I want to study in.
is
rather than 连接两个名词或代词作主语时，谓语动词应与rather than 前面的名词或代词在人称和数上保持一致。
3. through, across, cross
through: 指从空间的一头到另一头的“穿过”，含义与in有关；（介词）
across:指从一条线或一个物体的表面的一边到另一边的“横过”、“跨过”，含义与on有关。（介词）
cross: 表“横过”、“穿过”时，作动词；另外，它还可作名词、形容词。
Fill in the blanks:


2) It took us a long time to walk _______ the forest.
4)Jesus died on the .
5)He ________the room to greet us.
6)The Red _______ helps the people who are in trouble.
through
cross
crossed
Cross
Do be careful when you _______ the street.
Do watch out when you go ________ the street.
cross
across
4 .He was going to take them to the train station to catch “TheTrue North”.
乘坐;搭乘;赶上
catch a bus, train, or plane
I hope that I can catch the last bus.
The boss caught Tom ___________(smoke) in the kitchen.
I _____________ the heavy rain.
smoking
was caught in
catch sb doing 发现某人做某事
be caught in 被……所困
catch sight of 看见catch fire 着火catch up with 赶上
1. Sorry, I didn’t catch what you said.
Translate the following sentences:
听见;听清
染上，患，得(感冒等疾病)
抓获;捕捉;逮到
2. I caught a bad cold yesterday.
3. How many fish did you catch?
表示意义较抽象的“人口”时，表单数意义;表示某地区的全体居民时，可表示复数意义(考虑其个体)。
2. 询问“某地有多少人口” 要用“what is the population of …? 或” How large is the population of …?
3. 表示人口“多” 用“large”, 表示人口”少“ 用” “small”
5. Its population is increasing rapidly.
The population of this city is six million.
One third of the population of Xianju are farmers.
What’s the population of Germany?
The population of China is much larger than that of the USA.
The population of Xianju ____ to more than five times what it was in 1949.
has grown B. have grown
C. grew D. are growing
2. —______ of China? —It’s about 1,300,000,000.
What’s the population
How many is the population
How much is the population
D. What’re the population
A
A
6. the coast north of Vancouver some of the oldest and most beautiful forests in the world still remain.
north of = to the north of 表示“在……的北方”，其他方位词，如：east, west, south, southeast, northeast等，都有类似的用法。

他住在纽约以西（的地方）。
______________________________.
He lives west of New York
Japan is __ the east of China.
方位名词 跟介词on, in, to 连用
Zhejiang is __ the south of China.

Russia is __ the north of China.
在特定区域内，用in
两地相互接壤，用on
两地相互不连接，用to
in
on
to
in
Taiwan is ________ the southeast of China.
North Korea is _________the east of China.
Mexico is ________ the south of Canada.
in
on
to
7. It is so wet there that the trees are extremely tall, some measuring over 90 meters.
some measuring over 90 meters属于“代词+doing”构成的独立主格 结构
Winter coming, it gets colder and colder.
The job finished, we went home.
Nobody to come tomorrow, we will have to put off the meeting till next week.
He sat in the front row, his mouth half open.
The huntsman entered the forest, gun in hand.
名词/代词+ doing/done/ to do /adj./adv/介词短语
8 measure:
1. 测量,估量;
2. (体积、长度、容积等)是
３. 措施，办法
1. The rope measures 10 metres long.
2. They took strong measures against dangerous drivers.
3. Can you measure the table with this ruler?
9. from coast to coast 从海岸到海岸
总结 ：from + n + to + n 结构
from door to door
from head to foot
from beginning to end
from generation to generation
from east to west
from day to day
挨家挨户
从头到脚
自始至终
一代代
自东向西
一天天地
10. They went through a wheat-growing province and saw……
He went through a very difficult time.

I had gone through all my drawers(抽屉), but I could’t find it.
穿过，通过
经历，遭受
翻阅；翻找；整理
11.Canada has more fresh water than any other country in the world.
Xiao Ming is taller than any other boy in his class.
Xiao Ming is taller than any boy in his sister’s class.
同范围比较
不同范围比较
用比较级表示最高级，同一范围内比较时，常用：
①主语+谓语+ 比较级+than any other +单数名词
②主语+谓语+ 比较级+than any of the other +复数名词
如果是在不同的范围内比较，常用
主语 + 谓语 + 比较级 + than any + 单数名词
1. 中国是亚洲最大的国家。
China is the largest country in Asia.
China is larger than any other country in Asia.
China is larger than any of the other countries in Asia.
2. 中国比非洲任何一个国家都大。
China is larger than any country in Africa.
[仿真模拟]
从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
① Lung cancer is the worst killer in America, taking _____ lives each year than _____ cancer.
A. more; any B. most; any other
C. many; other D. more; any other
2.In a special report on deaths caused by cancer, the blacks are more diagnosed
with it than _____ in America.
A. any of the other B. any races
C. the other race D. any other race