1 人教英语必修 3 高一英语 U n i t 5 c a n a d a - t h e t r u e n o r t h 教案 T e a c h i n g p r o c e d u r e s A trip on “ the true north” First step: Warming up This quiz is intended to find out how much general knowledge your students already have about Canada. 1.What language(s) do Canadians speak? A. English B. English and German C. English and French D. English and Spanish 2. What is the capital of Canada? A. Vancouver B. Toronto C. Calgary D. Ottawa 3. What is the national animal of Canada? A. Beaver B. Grizzly bear C. Polar bear D. Penguin 4. What is the leader of the country called? A. President B. Prime Minister C. Queen 5. How many “Great Lakes” are there in Canada? A. 4 B. 3 C. 5 D. 6 You score two points for each correct answer. 10 is best, 8 is good and 6 is OK. Second step: Pre-reading The pre-reading questions encourage students to reflect on their personal experiences and information and their own ideas. 1.What is the longest trip you have ever taken? 2. Would you like to take a trip to Canada? What do you expect to see there? Third step: Reading a. Show a picture and ask: What is “The True North”? -“The True North” is the train that goes across Canada/the cross-Canada train. b. Fast reading: Ask students to read through the text fast and find the places mentioned in the text on the map and draw the route of the two girls travelling across Canada. C . Careful reading and comprehending: Questions 1. Why are the cousins not flying direct to the Atlantic coast? 2. What is the continent they are crossing? 3. Why do many people want to live in Vancouver? 4. When they crossed the Rocky Mountains, what wild animals did they see? 5. What happens at the Calgary Stampede? 6. Where does wheat grow in Canada? 7. Name two natural resources that Canada has. Find the answer in the reading passage. Answers: 1. They are not flying directly to the Atlantic Coast because they want to 2 take the train from west to East across Canada/ they want to see Canada/they want to travel across Canada. 2. They are crossing North America. 3. People want to live in Vancouver because it is beautiful; because it is surrounded by mountains and ocean; because they can ski in the mountains and sail in the harbour. 4. 5. At the Calgary Stampede cowboys compete in riding wild horses; they can win thousands of dollars for riding wild horses. 6. 7. Canada has water from its lakes and rivers and wood from its forests. d. write sentences with correct information 1. The girls went to Canada to see their relatives in Montreal. 2. Danny Lin was going to drive them to Vancouver. 3. You can cross Canada in less than five days by bicycle. 4. The girls looked out the windows and saw Native Indians and cowboys. 5. Thunder Bay is a port city in the south of Canada, near Toronto. Fourth step: Using the information and at least ten words from the reading passage, make a dialogue between Li Daiyu and Lui Qian about what they have seen and done on their trip. Use at least three sentences for each person. The first one has been done for you. Li Daiyu: What did you like best on the trip from Vancouver to Toronto? Liu Qian: My favourite part was seeing the grizzly bear in the mountains. Li Daiyu: . Liu Qian: “The True North” From Toronto To Montreal Step 1 Ask Ss to read the topic and ask: What two places will we go to today? Have you heard about Toronto and Montreal? Step 2 Fast reading Read fast and divide the text into two parts. Pa 1-4 Toronto Pa 5-6 Montreal Step 3 Careful reading 1.read Pa 1-4 careful and find out What is the season? How do you know?(fall red maple trees frost) places they have visited place information CN Tower tall Niagara Falls misty cloud rose from it covered stadium home of several famous basketball teams They saw mountain goats and even a grizzly bear. Wheat grows in the center of Canada. 3 downtown Chinatown one of the three The Pink Pearl have good Cantonese food 2.read Pa5-6 and find out Do you find anything special in Montreal?(Its a French city) What show that its a French city?(speak French signs and ads in French) Which places did they visit in Montreal? downtown lovely shops artists in workplaces St Lawrence River broad Step 4 :Fill in the blanks. Toronto is the most wealthy and biggest city in Canada. There is the tall CN Tower and the famous Niagara Falls, which is beautiful with misty cloud that rises from it. There is also covered stadium and three Chinatowns where you can get good Cantonese food. Montreal has a French culture. People speak both French and English. There were signs and ads in French. Its nice to sit in a caf, looking over the broad Stlawrence River. Step 5 language points 1.wealthy /wealth One percent of the people owned more than fifty percent of the wealth. He has earned a great deal of money and is now very wealthy. 2.notuntil They worked until 5:00 P.M. and then quit. They didnt stop working until 5:00 P.M. and then quit. 他们等着(不离开)直到雨止.