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Unit 5 Canada---- “The True North”

Period 1&2: 幻灯片 9-49页

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1. Do you like to go sightseeing?2. Which country do you like to

visit?3. What can you see in these

countries?

Warming-up--I----discussion (5m)

Discuss in group the following questions. After 5 minutes, one student from the group will give a presentation.

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Britain

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America

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France

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Australia

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Japan

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Canada

9Find out the location of Canada

Warming-up--II----discussion (2m)

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9.98million km2

5,500km

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1. Which is the national flag of Canada?

A. B.

C. Q D.

Quiz Warming-up--III----quiz (5m)

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2. Which is the national flower of Canada?

A. B.

cherry rose

C. Q D.

maple daffodil

Quiz

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3. What language(s) do Canadians speak?

A. English

B. English and German

C. English and French

D. English and Spanish

Quiz

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4. What is the capital of Canada?

A. B.

Vancouver TorontoC. Q D.

Calgary Ottawa

Quiz

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5. What is the national animal of Canada?

A. B.

Beaver Grizzly bear

C. D.

Polar bear Penguin

Quiz

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6. What is the leader of the country called?

A. President

B. Prime Minster

C. Queen

Quiz

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7. How many “Great Lakes” are there in Canada and what are they?

A. Lake Superior

B. Lake Huron

C. Lake Erie

D. Lake Ontario

E. Lake Michigan

refer to the map on page 33

Quiz

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“The True North” is the train that goes across Canada / the cross-Canada train.

Reading--I----fast reading (2m)

What is “The True North”?

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Draw the route of the two girls traveling across Canada.

Vancouver

Rocky Mountains

Calgary

Thunder Bay

Lake Superior

Toronto refer to the map on page 33

Reading--II----scanning (2m)

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Rocky M

ts.

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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. What happens at the Calgary Stampede?

5. Where does wheat grow in Canada?

6. Why would ships be able to reach the center of Canada?

Reading--III----detailed reading (5m)Read the text in detail, and answer the following questions.

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1. Why are the cousins not flying direct to the Atlantic coast?

They are not flying directly to the Atlantic Coast because they want to take the train from West to East across Canada / they want to see Canada / they want to travel across Canada.

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2. What is the continent they are crossing?

They are crossing North America.

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3. Why do many people want to live in Vancouver?

People want to live in Vancouver because it is beautiful / it is surrounded by mountains and ocean / they can ski in the mountains and sail in the harbour.

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4. What happens at the Calgary Stampede?

At the Calgary Stampede cowboys compete in riding wild horses / can win thousands of dollars for riding wild horses.

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5. Where does wheat grow in Canada?

Wheat grows in the center of Canada.

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6. Why would ships be able to reach the center of Canada?

Ships are able to reach the center of Canada because they can follow the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes to go there.

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Rewrite the sentences with correct information1. 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 of the windows and

saw Native Indians and cowboys.5. Thunder Bay is a port city in the south of

Canada, near Toronto.

Reading--IV----detailed reading (5m)

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1. The girls went to Canada to see their relatives in Montreal.

2. Danny Lin was going to drive them to Vancouver.

in the East of Canada / on the Atlantic coast of Canada

the train station to catch the cross-Canada train

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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.

can’t

a grizzly bear, mountain goats and wild scenery

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5. Thunder Bay is a port city in the south of Canada, near Toronto.at the top end of the Great Lakes, near the center of the country

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1. Which of the following is described as the most beautiful city in Canada?

A. VancouverB. CalgaryC. TorontoD. Montreal

Feedback quiz (2m)

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2. What does the word “slightly” in the text mean?

A. a bit

B. a lot

C. greatly

D. lightly

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3. Why did they begin to realize two days later that Canada is quite empty?

A. Because they found nobody on their way.

B. Because there are only thirty million people living on such a huge land and most of them live within the areas of the USA border.

C. There are too many lakes in Canada.

D. Because Canada is surrounded by Oceans on three sides.

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4. Which of the following statements is true according to the text?

A. Li Daiyu and Liu Qian went to Canada to see their cousins in Montreal.

B. Thunder Bay is a port city in the south of Canada near Toronto.

C. The girls looked out of the windows and saw Native Indians and cowboys.

D. Li Daiyu and Liu Qian went to Canada to see their relatives on the Atlantic coast.

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Fill in the blank and retell the story Li Daiyu and Liu Qian took the train in C

anada 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

west east

The True North second

coast coasteastward

surrounded

Retell (5m)

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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.

settled down

grizzly

have a gift forwent through

close to

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Design a route for travelling. Which cities would you like to visit in China? What can you see in these cities?

Discussion (5m)

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Homework

Surf the Internet to find more information Canada.

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Check the answers of exercise 1 on page 36Check the answers (5 minutes)

multi = many meanings

multicoloured made of many colours

multichannel having many channels

multiform existing in many forms

multinational including many nations

multistorey having many stories / storeys

multimedia using many media

multitrack made of many tracks

multifaith including many religions / faiths

multimember made of many members / people

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Check the answers of exercise 1 on page 36

-ward(s) = in a direction meanings

forward(s) ahead, to the front

eastward(s) to the east

westward(s) to the west

southward(s) to the south

backward(s) to the rear; to the back

outward(s) out, in a direction away

northward(s) to the north

inward(s) to the inside

toward(s) in a direction to

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Check the answers of exercise 2 on page 36extremely

have a gift for

settle down

coast

surround

harbour

figure out

port

within

Check the answers (5 minutes)

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Check the answers of exercise 3 on page 361. figure out 2. harbour3. within4. border5. a gift for6. settled down7. surrounded 8. extremely

Check the answers (5 minutes)

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Finish exercise 2 on page 37• 1. The possibility that the weather in winter

would be warmer pleased the Canadians.

• 2. The idea that there will be an earthquake terrifies many people.

• 3. The hope that we could go to France was exciting.

• 4. The fact that more and more people settle down in Canada surprises me.

• 5. The belief that the world is not scientific.

Exercises (5 minutes)

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1. He made another wonderful discovery, _______ of great importance to science.

A. which I think is B. which I think it is C. which I think it D. I think which is

高考链接A

解析：答案 A。该题考查定语从句中加入插入语的用法，因插入语应位于引导词之后，所以 D项不对， B、 C两项无法构成正确结构。

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“THE TRUE NORTH”

Toronto

Montreal

to

from

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A red maple leaf Niagara Falls

February in Canada The CN tower and the lake

Do you know the following things in Canada? Discussion (2 minutes)

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Fall in Canada

Parliament in Ottawa

A Chinese park in Toronto

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Canada is in northern North America

position

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Please underline the time mentioned in this text.

Please underline all the places they have been to or they have seen.

Please combine these two into one plot.

Fast reading (2 minutes)

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the next morning

around noon

late that night

at dawn the next morning

they spend the afternoon

the night

they saw beautiful maple trees and realized that fall had come.

they arrived in Toronto.

the train left.

they arrived in Montreal.

in the lovely shops and visiting the artists in their workplaces beside the water.the train was speeding down to the East Coast.

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Read the passage for a second time and answer the following questions.

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 Torono?5. Which direction is the train going from Torono?6. Why did the girls go to Old Montreal?7. What three things show us that Montreal is a French city?

Detailed reading (5 minutes)

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We know it’s fall in Canada because the maple trees are red and gold and orange, and there is froze on the ground.

2. What can sometimes be seen from the CN Tower in Toronto?

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

Sometimes the misty cloud that rises from Niagara alls can be seen from the CN tower.

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the water from the lake goes into the Niagara river and over the falls on its way to the sea.

3. Where does the water from the lake go?

There is good Cantonese food in Toronto because most of the Chinese people there come from the south of china , especially Hong Kong.

4. Why is there good Cantonese food in Torono?

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The train is going east from Toronto.

They went to Old Montreal because it is close to the water/ to see the lovely shops ant the artists.

6. Why did the girls go to Old Montreal?

5. Which direction is the train going from Torono?

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Good coffee, good bread and good music show that Montreal is a French city, also the signs and ads were in French.

7. What three things show us that Montreal is a French city?

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Extensive reading (5 minutes)

Read the article “Iqaluit----The Frozen Town” and fill in the chart.Points in the passage

What Beth thought

Information in the passage

The temperature

How to travel

Holidays

How people live

What the Inuit do

Daylight hours

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Points in the Passage

What Beth thought


The temperature

How to travel

Holidays

id id

Cold, but not too cold

Very cold, -35 degrees average in winter

By dogsled By snowmobile

Too cold for holidays

Tourists like ice fishing and photographing polar bears

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Points in the Passage

What Beth thought


How people live

What the Inuit do

Daylight hours

In ice houses

In warm houses

Hunt animals

Have business

Light in daytime

Dark in winter day; light in summer night

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Students work in pair and take turn to introduce Canadian cities to each other.

Discussion (10 minutes)

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• What Is a Canadian?

Unit 5 Canada – the True North

1.What do you know about Canada? its population

its location

their official language

2. What do you know about the Canadian?

their religiontheir mixture of cultures

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Unit 5 Canada – the True North

Location: in the northern of north AmericaPopulation: 30 millionTheir official languages : English and FrenchPeople: British descent (28%), French descent

(23%),Italian descent (3%), aboriginal people(2%) plus significant minorities of German, Ukrainian Dutch Greek Polish and Chinese

Religion:Catholic (45%) Protestant (36%)and some other religions

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You will come across the following new words from the listening material later. Learn the new words first.

mixture 混合物race 种族official language 官方语言Inuit 因纽特人，北美爱斯基摩人

New words (5 minutes)

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1.It’s not easy to know what a Canadian is because :Canada is a _________ of many ________ and ______ / peoples whose families have lived in Canada for a long time are sure to mixed up.

2. Canada encourages people to keep ______________________________

3.The two official languages in Canada are _________ and __________ .

mixturecultures races

their own customs/ languages.

English French

Listen to the tape twice and fill in the blank.Listening--I (5 minutes)

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4. Native Indians and Inuit are trying to keep their __________ alive.

5. The speaker’s family is a mixture of _________, ____________ and _______.

6. More than _____ languages are used in radio and TV programs.

7. You may find areas where many Chinese, Italians and Koreans choose to love. They are called __________ , ___________ and __________ .

languages

English native Indian French

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Chinatownlittle Italy Korea town

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Listening--II (5 minutes)

Listen to the listening material “Important Canadians” twice and find out all the information of each.

Oscar Peterson

Home town Montreal

Job Musician / piano player

Kind of music Jazz

Number of recordings and CDs

Over 150

Plays with… his trio / the greatest jazz musicians in the world

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Dr Nancy Olivieri

Home town Toronto

Job Doctor / medical researcher

Found a drug that… was dangerous to children

Refused to… accept / approve of the drug

Is a hero to… honest medical scientists


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Wayne Gretsky

Is called… The Great One

Job Ice hockey player

Is the best … player who ever lived

He believed in… working with the team

He was a star because he scored…

a record number of goals

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1. Friends in Canada invited the two cousins to dinner at a restaurant.

2. They could not talk about all the geography of China because it is too big.

3. China is over 7,000 kilometres from east to west.

4. Many rivers in China come from the mountains in the west.

Listening--II (5 minutes)

Listen to the listening material “China and Canada” twice and decide which statement are true and which are false. F

T

F

T

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5. The Gobi Desert is like the grasslands in Canada.

6. The Great Wall cannot keep the dust of the desert away from Beijing.

7. Canadian people cannot talk with their nieghbouring country because they do not speak English.

8. Both China and Canada have world-famous waterfalls.

F

T

F

F

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In pairs take turns to ask and answer the following questions. Make notes and be ready to present your conversation to the class.

1. Which official language in Canada do you think most people speak? Why do you think so?

2. What is a good question you would like to ask a Canadian?

3. Why do you think the Chinese language is growing so fast in Canada?

Speaking (5 minutes)

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The girls are planning to write back home a report on Canada for their class in China. They have to plan their report carefully. Suppose one of you is Li Daiyu and you are going to make a report on what they have seen. The other is Liu Qian and you will write on what they have heard from people whom they have met. The following boxes may help you. Share your information with your partner. Then choose one set of information and write a report for either Li Daiyu or Liu Qian.

Pair Writing (20 minutes)

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Li Daiyu’s Report

What we saw in Canada

From the train

In Toronto In Montreal

1

2

…

Liu Qian’s Report

What we heard in Canada

From Danny Lin

From Lin Tao

From Henri

1

2

…

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In writing a report, make sure it has:a title;a short paragraph to introduce the topic of

your report;a different paragraph for each new piece

of information or new place;a short conclusion.

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Language points for Reading ILanguage points for Reading IIVideo data

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1. Canada is a multicultural country like China. 加拿大像中国一样是一个多元化国家。

multi- 是一个前缀，意为“多” multistory ____________ multiform ____________ multichannel ____________________ multipurpose __________

多层的多种形式的

多通话线路的 , 多波段的多种用途的

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多党的 _____________ 多国的、多民族的 __________ 多向的 ________________ 多彩的，彩色的 ____________ 多媒体 __________

multiparty

multinational

multidirectional

multicolored

multimedia

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2. Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian were on a trip to Canada to visit their cousins on the Atlantic coast. 李黛予和她的表妹刘倩去加拿大大西洋海岸看望她们的表兄妹们。

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： be on a trip to make a trip to take a trip to

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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

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3. Rather than take the aeroplane all the way, they decided to fly from China to Vancouver and to take the train from west to east across Canada in September.

rather than (prep.): in preference to (sb/sth); instead of 与其（某人 /某物） ;不愿 ;不要

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他不愿惹麻烦 ,宁可离去 . _______________________, he left.

我想喝柠檬汁 ,不想喝可乐 . I’ll ___________________________.

他正忙于写信而不是读报 . He was busy __________________

__________________________.

Rather than cause trouble

have a lemonade rather than a coke

writing a letter rather than reading a newspaper

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4. It is the second biggest country in the world and as you go eastward, you will see mountains, and pass by thousands of lakes, forests and wide rivers as well as cities. 它是世界第二大国家 ,当你一路向东行时 ,除了城市你还会看到山脉 ,会经过上千个湖泊 ,森林 ,大河等以及城市 .

eastward 也作 eastwards, 副词 ,意为“向东” -ward(s)=in a direction

向前 ___________ 向后 __________ 向外 ___________ 向南 __________ 向西 ___________ 向北 __________

forward(s) backward(s)

northward(s)outward(s) southward(s)westward(s)

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他们向东航行。__________________.

我们难以决定是向东走还是向西走。We couldn’t decide ______________

___________________.

They sailed eastward

whether to go eastward or westward

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thousands of 成千上万的注意： million, billion, thousand, hun

dred, score, dozen 之前有确定的数字时，不论后面是有无 of, 词尾都不加 s.

如果前面没有确定的数字而后接 of时，词尾都加 s.

300 名学生 ____________________这些鸡蛋里的 3打 _______________________

几打鸡蛋 _______________

three hundred students

three dozen of these eggs

dozens of eggs

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5. Many people think it is the most beautiful city in Canada, as it is surrounded by mountains on the north and east and the Pacific. 许多人都认为温哥华是加拿大最美丽的城市，因为它的北面和东面都被大山包围。

surround vt. 包围，环绕，围绕 surround sb/sth with sb/sth sth/sb be sourrounded by/with sth

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篱笆环绕着学校。 _____________________________. 他们出动了军队包围了该城。 _____________________________ ____________.

房子的四周有高墙。 ______________________________ ______.

The fence surrounds the school

They have surrounded the town with troops

The house is surrounded by high walls

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6. On the coast north of Vancouver some of the oldest and most beautiful forests in the world still remain.温哥华以北的海岸依然生长着世界上最古老，最美丽的森林。

north of = to the north 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。

他住在洛杉矶以东（的地方）。 ______________________________.He lives to the east of Los Angeles

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7. That afternoon in the train the cousins settled down in their seats. 那天下午表姐妹俩才在火车上落了座。

settle down 安稳坐下，安居下来，适应起来他爷爷手拿报纸坐在扶手椅里。His grandfather ______________________

_____________with a newspaper.

你适应新工作了吗？____________________________________?

settled down in the armchair

Have you settled down in your new job yet

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8. Many of them have a gift for working with animals and they can win thousands of dollars in prizes. 他们中许多人都有与兽共舞的才能，他们能赢得几千美元的奖金。

have a gift for 在… ..方面有天分；有天赋

她对学语言有天赋。 __________________________________

好像他对音乐有些天赋。 __________________________________

she has a gift for learning languages.

It seems he has a gift for music.

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1.They were not leaving for Montreal until later.

Not …until … 表示“直到…才…”，常与表示瞬间的动词连用。如：

他们直到今天晚上才离开。We do not ________ until ___________.

街上的吵闹声直到深夜才停止。The noise in the street didn't ______ until

___________.

leave this evening

stopmidnight

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Not leave = stay 所以加延续性动词时，常与 until连用。

他们直到今天晚上才离开。We will ________ until this evening.街上的吵闹声直到深夜才停止。The noise in the street will ________ until midnight.until 后也可接从句：孩子们天黑之前都不会回来。The children won’t __________ until ____________.

stay

go on

come backit is dark

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2. It’s too bad you can’t go as far as Ottawa, Canada’s capital.遗憾的时你们不能一直走到加拿大的首都渥太华去。as far as (习语)直到所提到之处为止我一直走到山脚。I walked ______________________ ____________

__.莎拉已经读到第四册啦。Sarah has read _________________ ___________

_. as far as the foot of the mountain

as far as the forth volume

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3. The girl told him they were on a train trip across the Canada and that they had only one day in Montreal.

一个动词若带两个宾语从句，第二个宾语从句的引导词 that 一般不能省，例如：

I understand not only that you have studied Chinese but also that you have written Chinese poetry.

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1 Unit 5 Canada---- “The True North” Period 1&2: 幻灯片 9-49 页