[中学联盟]浙江省杭州市塘栖中学高中英语必修三教学课件：unit5 using language1.ppt

Before you listen, read the incomplete sentences in Exercise 2 on page 37 and guess what the topic of the listening text is. Listen to the tape and complete these sentences with the correct information. 1 Canada encourages people to keep 2 Canada is a mixture of 3 If you live in the province of Quebec, 4 Native Indians and the Inuit are trying to 5 More than languages are used in radio and TV programmers. 6 You may find areas where live near each other. 7 The families are usually all mixed up. Listening text WHAT IS A CAHADIAN? I am a Canadian and very proud of my country. However, people sometimes don’t know what being Canadian really means. People who come to Canada are encouraged to be proud of their own culture and keep their own and keep their own customs. Except for the Native Indians, everybody else who lives here came from another country or their ancestors did. Canada is a mixture of many cultures and races. It is what we call a multicultural country. We have two official languages, French and English. Even though we encourage people to keep their own customs, we expect everyone to learn French or English in order to live in Canada. If you live in the province of Quebec, you are expected to speak French. However, the Native Indians and the Inuit of Canada are still trying to keep their languages alive. You can hear some of their languages in the names of rivers and lakes as well as cities. “Canada” means “village”. Toronto and Ottawa are also Native Indian names. There are radio and television programmes, newspapers and magazines in over 80 different languages across Canada, and the Toronto city government offers help to people in 70 languages. Many of our big cities have areas where people from the same culture live near each other－there might be a Chinatown, a L