Canada

4. acting a text play
acting out the text is a strategy for motivating us to read out loud the text. we need oral practice and help with pronunciation and so acting out the text really helps us.
next we are going to put the text “the true north” from toronto to montreal” on stage.
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a text play of “the true north” from toronto to montreal”
(on the train)
liu qian: look! the maple trees are red and gold and orange.
li daiyu: yes, there is even frost on the ground.
liu qian: i see. it’s fall time in canada.
(around noon)
li daiyu: we are coming close to toronto, the most wealthy and biggest city in canada.
liu qian: wonderful! i am so excited that i can’t wait to go on a tour of the city.
(out of the train station)
liu qian: what can we visit?
li daiyu: we shall go up the tower of cn or cn tower where we can look across the lake  and see the misty cloud rising from the great niagara falls.
liu qian: where does the water flow?
li daiyu: it flows into the niagara river and over the falls on its way to the sea.
liu qian: look! there is a covered stadium over there!
li daiyu: it has been home of several famous basketball teams. oh, by the way, let’s stop here. i am going to phone one of my mother’s friends from a telephone booth. he lives around here, i think.
liu qian: where are we going to take our dinner? i am hungry, very hungry.
li daiyu: for dinner, we shall go to the downtown chinatown. but first we have to meet lin tao at the pink pearl. he moved here many years ago.
(at the pink pearl)
lin tao: hi, li daiyu! hi, liu qian. nice to see you here in canada.
liu qian: thank you for coming to meet us. but, i…, i am hungry. i’d like to have cantonese food. i don’t like canadian food at all.
li daiyu: neither do i. there are many people who came from south china. they cook ni ce cantonese food.
(after dinner)
 lin tao:  it’s too bad you can’t go as far as ottawa.
liu qian: where is it? is it a big city?
lin tao: it’s about four hundred kilometers northeast of toronto. it is the capital city of canada.
(at dawn the next morning)
lin tao: here we are at the train station of montreal.
liu qian: they are not speaking english!
lin tao: no, they aren’t. people are speaking french here. but don’t worry. all the french signs and ads have english words in small letters.
li daiyu: let’s go downtown to old montreal. it’s close to the water, i gue ss.
lin tao: i agree. i like spending the afternoon in the lovely shops, visiting artists in their workplaces, sitting in a café, looking over the broad st lawr ence river.