Unit 5 Canada —— “The true North”（Period 1 Warming up and Reading 1）

2) listen to the tape and fill in the blanks from the text.
canada is _____ than the united states. it is the _______largest country in the world.it is _____ kilometers from coast to coast in canada.the population of canada is only slightly over_____________.canada has _________ of the world’s fresh water, much of which is in the ___________.on the coast north of vancouver some of the oldest and most beautiful _______ in the world still remain. it is so wet there that the trees are extremely ______.
period 2 language points:
1.canada is a multicultural country like china. 加拿大像中國一樣是一個多元化國家。
multistory 多層的 multiform 多種形式的
multichannel 多通話線路的, 多波段的 multipurpose 多種用途的
多黨的 multiparty 多國的、多民族的 multinational
多向的 multidirectional 多彩的，彩色的 multicolored
多媒體 multimedia
2.li daiyu and her cousin liu qian were on a trip to canada to visit their cousins on the atlantic coast. 李黛予和她的表妹劉倩去加拿大大西洋海岸看望她們的表兄妹們。
trip: usually short journey, esp. for pleasure (通常指短途的)行走，旅行（尤指娛樂性的）
與trip搭配的主要動詞和介詞： be on a trip to
make a trip to take a trip to
海濱之行a trip to the seaside
前往巴黎的蜜月之旅 a honeymoon trip to paris
他出差在外。he is on a business trip
我父親下禮拜要到紐約去。
my father will make a trip to new york next week
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 與其（某人/某物）;不愿;不要
他不愿惹麻煩,寧可離去. rather than cause trouble, he left.
我想喝檸檬汁,不想喝可樂.
i’ll have a lemonade rather than a coke.
他正忙于寫信而不是讀報.
he was busy writing a letter rather than reading a newspaper.
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. 它是世界第二大國家,當你一路向東行時,除了城市你還會看到山脈,會經過上千個湖泊,森林,大河等以及城市.
eastward也作eastwards,副詞,意為“向東”
-ward(s)=in a direction
向前foreward(s) 向后 backward(s)
向外outward(s) 向南 southward(s)
向西 westward(s) 向北 northward(s)
他們向東航行。they sailed eastward
我們難以決定是向東走還是向西走。
we couldn’t decide whether to go eastward or westward
thousands of 成千上萬的
注意：million, billion, thousand, hundred, score, dozen之前有確定的數字時，不論后面是有無of, 詞尾都不加s.
如果前面沒有確定的數字而后接of時，詞尾都加s.