Book3 Unit5 Period3reading2

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Unit 5 Canada---\

Period 3 Reading II

Learning aims:

1.Understand the reading passage fully and master the basic skills of the reading to improve the reading ability.

2. Master the characteristics of Toronto and Montreal by learning by themselves and exploring cooperatively.

3.Learn to analyse and summarize.

Learning important and difficult points:

Master the characteristics of Toronto and Montreal .

一、Self--preview(自主预习)

学法指导:先通读教材一遍,完成表层理解题,然后再读教材,完成回答问题及语篇填空.

Task 1 正误判断(根据课文内容判断正\误\

1.Toronto is the biggest and most wealthy city in Canada.( ) 2.The two cousins visited Canada in autumn.( )

3.Around noon they paid a visit to Lin Fei and had a good meal at The Pink Pearl.( )

4.Ottawa is about 400 kilometres northwest of Toronto.( )

5.Most people of Montreal speak both English and French ,but the city has French culture and traditions.( )

Task 2 Choose the best answer.

1.. ____ is the home of the famous basketball teams? A .the covered stadium B. the harbour area C. a telephone booth D. a restaurant

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2.Why is there good Cantonese food in Chinatown?

A .Because the Chinatown is in Toronto

B .Because most of the Chinese people there come from South China

C .Because all the Chinese people there are from D. Because it’s near Canada’s capital Ottawa

二. Questions for preview(预习疑惑)

请你将预习中未能解决的问题和有疑惑的问题写下来,待课堂上与老师和同学探究解决.

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三、Cooperative Exploration (合作探究)

Task 1 Answer the following questions after reading the passage.

1.How many cities did they visit in the text? 2.In what direction did they take the train? 3. What tree did they see outside their windows? 4. What season was it?

5. How do we know it is fall in Canada?

6. What can sometimes be seen from the CN Tower in Toronto? 7.Where does the water from the lake go? 8.Which direction is the train going from Toronto? 9. What three things show us that Montreal is a French city?

Task 2 根据课文内容，在下面短文的空白处填入适当的单词或短语。

The next morning the red, gold and orange _______and maple trees outside their

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windows and the frost on the ground __________ that fall had arrived in Canada. After arriving in Toronto, the biggest and ____________ city in Canada, around noon, Li Daiyu and her cousins went on a tour of the city. Having climbed up the tall CN Tower, they looked across the lake. _____________, the _____ cloud rising from the great Niagara Falls, which is on the south side of the lake, could be seen. As they walked north from the harbour area, Li Daiyu phoned Lin Fei, one of her mother’s old ___________ from a telephone _____ .They met Lin Fei around dusk in downtown Chinatown, one of the three in Toronto and they chatted with each other at a restaurant. The train left late that night and arrived in Montreal at dawn the next morning. At a _____ restaurant, they were looking over the_____ St Lawrence River when they met a young man called Henri, who told them that most people in the city spoke both English and French, but the city had French culture and _________. That night as the train was speeding along the St Lawrence River toward the Gulf of St Lawrence and down to the distant east coast, the cousins dreamed of French restaurants and red maple leaves.

四. Oral or written presentation(口头或书面展示) 五. Summary 六. Practice(及时训练)

Vancouver is located in the southwest corner of Canada in the province of British Columbia. Vancouver is the largest city in the province and the third largest in Canada. It covers an area of 113 sq km. It is surrounded by water on three sides and overlooked by the Coast Range. Its climate is one of the mildest in Canada. Temperatures average 3°C in January and 18°C in July. Vancouver's most rainfall occurs in winter.

Archaeological evidence shows that coastal Indians had settled the Vancouver area by 500 BC. British naval (海军的) captain George Vancouver explored the area in 1792. Vancouver was founded as a sawmill settlement called Granville in the 1870s. The city was united in 1886 and renamed after Captain Vancouver.

As the main western terminus of Canada's transcontinental highway and rail routes, Vancouver is the primary city of western Canada, as well as one of the nation's largest industrial centres.

The Port of Vancouver is Canada’s largest and most various port, trading more than $43 billion in goods with more than 90 trading economies annually. Port

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activities generate 69,200 jobs in total with $4 billion in gross domestic product (GDP) and $8.9 billion in economic output.

Vancouver is a major tourist place. In addition to the city's scenic location, visitors enjoy beautiful gardens and world-famous Stanley Park, one of more than 180 city parks, and a combination of natural forest and parklands near the city centre.

63. Which of the following description about Vancouver is NOT true, according to the passage?

A. Vancouver is the third largest city in Canada. B. Vancouver is a city located on water.

C. Vancouver is not far from the Coast Range.

D. The largest industrial centre in Canada lies in Vancouver.

64. According to the passage, originally Vancouver is the name of ________. A. a British man who explored the city

B. a sawmill settlement called Granville C. the leader who controlled the area D. a transcontinental highway

65. The passage mainly tells us ________.

A. the Port of Vancouver, the largest one in Canada B. how Vancouver got its name C. Vancouver’s history

D. a brief introduction of the city of Vancouver

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