内容正文:
Journey across the vast land
Lead in
How much do you know about Canada?
Area: the __________ largest country in the world.
Official language: __________ and __________
Capital City: __________
Alternative name: ___________
How would you travel to the True North, a land far and wide?
Via rail
second
English
French
Ottawa
The True North
2
Pre-reading
Look at the picture and the title.
What can you know about the journey?
Destination: Canada
Vancourver and the heart of Canada
Transportation: rail journey
Scenery: what to see
Geography
Climate
Feelings
3
While-reading
Read the text and sum up the main idea of each paragraph
Para.1 A brief __________ to cross Canada by rail.
Para.2 Their stay in __________ before the journey.
Para.3 Their visit to ______________________
Para.4 Introduction of __________
Para.5 Journey across the great __________
Para.6 On the way to __________
introduction
Vancouver
Lake Louise and Jasper
Edmonton
Prairie
Toronto
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Complete the table below with information from the article
4
While-reading
1. Read paragraph 1 and fill in the blanks.
Brief introduction about the trip
who
what/why
where
how first by _____, then via _____
feeling
Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian
To visit their cousins
Halifax on the Atlantic Coast
plane
train
Excited
5
While-reading
2. What is the text type?
Travel journal
3. How is the passage organized?
In time and space order
6
discourse markers
Let’s follow the discourse markers and find out the places they have been.
If you are to find “places”, what kind of words should you pay attention to? Capitalized words.
discourse markers
4. Scan the text and circle all the places they visited.
Let’s follow the discourse markers and find out the places they have been.
If you are to find “places”, what kind of words should you pay attention to? Capitalized words.
Let’s see their travel routes.
As you can see… their journey starts from the east coast to the west coast.
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