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in canada? a. 4b. 3c. let students work in pairs and answer this quiz. then have them pare their answers with another pair. give them the correct answers and see how many students got 80﹪or better. step 2 prereading 1. 1) 2) 3) 2. let students discuss the following questions: what is the longer trip you have ever taken? if you take a trip to canada, what dou you think you might see there? what three words would you use to describe canada? have students turn to page 34 of the text book, look at the title of the reading passage and the pictures and predict what the passage is about. then have them read the passage quickly to see if they are right. step 3 reading 1. fast reading ask students to skim the reading passage and then answer the following questions: 1) what is the passage mainly about? 2) what is “the true north”? 3) how many cities are mentioned in the text? what are they? three minutes later,c()heck the answers with the whole class. suggested answers: 1) the passage is about a trip of two girls, and it tells us some information about canada. 2) “the true north”is the train that goes across canada. 3) five. they are montreal, vancouver, calgary, thunder bay and toronto. 2. intensive reading allow students to read the passage carefully this to understand the main ideas of each paragraph and get the important details, and then finish the following: 1) choose the best answer to each question according to the text. (1) as you go eastward, you can see the following things except a. mountainsb. thousands of lakesc. forests and wide rivers d. cows (2)who will take part in the calgary stampede? a. cowboysb, people from canada c. anyone who has a gift for ridingd. cowboys from all over the world (3)which of the following ststements is true? a. one can cross canada in less than five days by train. b. many people think calgary is the most beautiful city in canada. c. in fact, the population of canada is more than thirty million. d. ocean ships cannot reach thunder bay. (4)which of the following shows the right route of the cousin`s travel? a. toronto→calgary→vancouver→thunder bay b. vancouver→calgary→thunder bay→toronto c. vancouver→thunder bay→calgary→toronto d. toronto→thunder bay→calgary→vancouver suggested answers: (1)d(2)d(3)c(4)b 2) answer the following questions in plete sentences. (1) which