1、ListeningListeningListening on 69Li Daiyu and Liu Qian were asked to give a report telling their new Canadian friends about China.Discuss with your partner what the most important points are for a foreigner to know about China and then predict what the girls will say in their report.1.China is over
2、7,000 kilometers from east to west.Listen to the tape.Deiced if the following sentences are true or false.If false,then correct the information.FalseChina is over 5,000 kilometres from east to west.2.Both China and Canada have mountains in the west of the country.3 The Great Wall cannot keep the des
3、erts dust away from Beijing.4 China has 15 neighbouring countries while Canada only has one.TrueTrueTrue5.Canadians cannot talk with people in their neighbouring country because they do not speak English.FalsePeople in both Canada and the USA speak English,so it is easy for them to talk to each othe
4、r.A COMPARISON OF CHINA AND CANADALi Daiyu and Liu Qians Canadian friends asked them to tell them something about China.The two cousins decided to present a short report together,comparing China and Canada.Listening TextLD=Li DaiyuLQ=Liu QianLD:China is very large country.Its about 9,600,000 square
5、kilometres in area,and 5,000 kilometres from east to west.Its so big that its difficult to describe.Perhaps its easier to compare it to Canada.LQ:China has many of the highest mountains in the world.Theyre in the west of the country,as they are in Canada,but China has more mountains where many great
6、 rivers begin.LD:China has two countries to the north,Mongolia and Russia.Unlike Canada,which has no countries to its north,but only the Arctic ice and snow.LQ:China has fourteen neighbouring Countries.Its borders are over 20,000 kilometres long.Canada,however,has only one neighbour,the USA to the s
7、outh.Both Canadians and Americans speak English,but its not so easy for Chinese to talk with their neighbours,even if they live close to the border.LD:Chinas Gobi Desert,in the northwest of China,is very special.There is nothing similar in Canada.In winter and spring sometimes the cold air blows dus
8、t southward from the Gobi Desert to the northern parts of China.Even the Great Wall cannot keep out the dust.LQ:Both China and Canada have long rivers and many lakes as well as busy port cities on the Pacific Ocean.China is famous for the third longest river in the world,the ChangjiangRiver,and Cana
9、da has the famous Niagara Falls.LD:Canada,however,has nothing like Chinas southern island of Hainan.While it is snowing and freezing in Mohe in north China on the Chinese-Russian border,people nearly 5,500 kilometres south in Hainan can sit on the beach in the sunshine.LQ:There is nowhere to sit on
10、the beach in winter in Canada!Listen to these introductions of three famous Canadians.Fill in the report charts below with the information you hear.Listening task on page 72Oscar petersonHometownJobKind of musicNumber of recordings and CDsPlays withMontrealmusician/piano playerjazzover 150his music
11、group/the greatest jazz musicians in historyDr Nancy OlivieriHometownJobFound a drug that.Refused to Is a heroine toTorontodoctor/medical researcherwas dangerous to childrenaccept/approve of the drughonest medical scientistsWayne GretskyIs calledJob Is the bestHe believed in.He was a star because he
12、 scoredthe Great Oneice hockey playerhockey player in the worldworking with the teama record number of goalsTHREE GREAT CANADIANSA great jazz piano player is aCanadian!One of the greatest Canadian musicians is world-famous for his jazz music.Oscar Peterson is a piano player from Montreal.He has made
13、 over 150 recordings and CDs Listening Text and has played with the greatest jazz musicians in history.Although he is quite old now,he still goes on tour with his music group.A brave medical researcher is a Canadian!Dr Nancy Olivieri,a childrens doctor from Toronto,has become famous for refusing to
14、support a drug that she was working on.A big drug company paid her to do the research,but when she found that the drug was dangerous to children,she made a public report.The drug company and the hospital where she worked said they would make her lose her job.She refused to change her report,and is n
15、ow a hero to honest medical scientists.The best hockey player in the world is a Canadian!Everyone who is interested in ice hockey has heard of the Canadian star Wayne Gretsky,“The Great One.”People say he is the greatest hockey player who ever lived and think highly of him mostly for the fact that t
16、he is a real team player.He believed that working with his team to score goals was more important than being the star,but,in fact,he was the star player and scored a record number of goals.Reading Task on page 74Iqaluit is the capital city of the new Canadian territory(领土)of Nunavut,on Baffin Island
17、(巴芬岛).Nunavut has a population of about 30,000,spread out over almost 2 million square kilometres.The area has a population density(密度)of one person per 100 sq kms.Inuit,meaning“the people”,are the inhabitants north and west of the Hudson Bay.They used to live in skin tents in the summer and snow ho
18、uses in the winter.Inuit,meaning“the people”,are the inhabitants north and west of the Hudson Bay.They used to live in skin tents in the summer and snow houses in the winter.Points in the passageWhat Beth thoughtInformation in the passageThe temperatureCold,but not too coldVery cold,-35 degrees aver
19、age in winterRead the passage and fill in the form.How to travelHolidaysHow people liveBy dogsledBy snowmobileToo cold for holidaysTourists like ice fishing and photographing polar bearsIn ice housesIn warm housesWhat the Inuit doDaylight hoursHunt animalsLight in daytimeHave businessesDark in winter day;light in summer nightHomeworkRead the writing task on page 75 and write a tour plan.
