Canada ------The True North

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Unit 5 Canada ------The True
North
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National flag
Capital city-----Ottawa
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Toronto
Chinatown in Vancouver
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How much do you know about Canada? Try the quiz
on page33.
Keys 1.C 2. D 3. A 4. B 5. A
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Polar bear
beaver
Grizzly bear
What do you expect to see if you take a trip to
Canada?
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Scan the reading passage and underline the main
places mentioned in the text.
Atlantic coast, Vancouver, Rocky Mountains,
Calgary, Thunder Bay, Lake Superior and Toronto.
Draw the travalling route of the two girls at
the map on page33.
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Read the questions on page35 and read the text
to find the answers.

• They are not flying directly to the Atlantic
  Coast
• because they want to travel across Canada.

1. They are crossing the North America.

3. The True North is the train that runs
through Canada.

• 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.
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6. Wheat grows in the center of Canada.
7. Ships are ably to reach the center because
they can follow the St. Lawrence River and the
Great Lakes.
8. Canada had water from its lakes and rivers
and wood from its forest.
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Try to find out what these numbers refer to in
the text.
Second 5500 320 Thirty million One third
The second largest country in the world
It is 5500 kilometers from the east to the west
of the country.
Most Canadians live 320 kilometers of the USA
border.
The population of Canada is slightly over thirty
million
Canada has one third of the worlds fresh water
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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 _______ largest country
in the world. It is 5500 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.
Vancouver
China
The True North
second
coast
coast
eastward
surrounded
settled down
polar
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Calgary is famous for its competition.Many of the
_______ 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.
cowboys
have
a
gift for
went through
close to