内容正文:
A rail journey across Canada
Unit 4 JOURNEY ACROSS A VAST LAND
Reading & thinking
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Learning Objectives
Read for the information about a rail journey of two girls to Canada.
Use discourse markers to show relationships between ideas.
Understand the meaning of travel.
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Lead-in
What you will see if you go on a rail journey across Canada?
What is the text type ?
A. Exposition(说明文)
B. Travel journal
C. Feature(特写)
D. Argumentation
1.Read for the title
Pre-reading
Read the title then answer the question.
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Seeing the True North Via Rail: Vancouver and the Heart of Canada
Seeing The True North Via Rail:Vancouver And The Heart of Canada
characters
What will be included in a travel journal ?
2.Make a prediction
route
transportation
places
weather
activities
scenery
feelings
While-reading
1.Read for writing order
How is the passage organized?
Before
first day
next day
next morning
night
another day
next morning
Vancouver
Lake Lousie
Jasper
Edmonton
Prairie
Winnipeg
Toronto
space
Canadian Rockies
In and order
time
Ontario
Who(Characters):
Where(The route):
How(Transportation):
China
Vancouver
Halifax
Why:
To visit their cousins
2.Read for the content
Look at para.1 and find out related information.
wonderful, pleasant → pleased
the sights,
visited an ilsand;
took a hike
the beautiful mountains
What did they do in Vancouver?
What did they see in Vancouver?
How did they feel?
took a boat ride ;
Look at para.2 and answer the following questions.
Place(s)
what they saw
how they felt
Lake Louise
beautiful blue water
took their breath away;awesome→ amazed
Canadian Rockies
deer
mountain goat
grizzly bear
eagle
spectacular mountain peaks and forests;
many different creatures
Read para.3 loudly then fill in the table below.
Read para.4-5 silently and find out the answers.
Q1.Where is the provincial capita