Unit 4 Journey Across a Vast Land Reading and Thinking 课件-2023-2024学年高中英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第二册

Unit 4 Journey Across A Vast Land Reading and Thinking At the end of this lesson, I will be able to: draw the two girls’ journey route; use discourse markers to express logic and meaning; analyze the advantages and disadvantages of different kinds of transportation. TEXT If you take a trip to Canada: What kind of vehicle will you choose? What do you think you will see if you go on a rail journey across Canada? Look at the picture and the title and then predict the content of the text. ∙ What is “the True North”? ∙ What is “the Heart of Canada”? Skim the text and sum up the main idea of the text. Helpful questions: ∙ Who are the main characters? ∙ Where did they go? ∙ How did they go there? ∙ What did they see/do? ∙ How was their journey like? Read Para. 1 carefully and underline the key information about the people, the destination, the transportation and the mood etc. The passage is about _________________________________across the whole Canada, and it tells us _________________ about the country. some amazing sights the rail journey of Li Daiyu and Liu Qian Complete the table below with information from the article. Time Place Information Before starting out often rains; a harbour; beautiful mountains looking out over the city; a forest just a short distance away The next morning the Canadian Rockies After they left Jasper centre of Canada's huge oil and gas industry; cold in winter, with daily temperatures averaging -10℃; home to one of the largest shopping malls in North America After they left Edmonton the Canadian Prairie After another day a land of forests, lakes, and rolling hills; four Great Lakes on its southern border; capital is Toronto Vancouver blue water of Lake Louise; spectacular mountain peaks and forests; different creatures, such as deer, mountain goats, a grizzly bear and eagles Edmonton Ontario an open country; two wheat-growing provinces; a bunch of farms that covered a very large area Read and underline the discours