浙江省杭州市塘栖中学高中英语必修三教学课件：Unit5listeningandreadingtask.ppt

Listening Listening on 69 Li 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 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. False China 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 desert’s dust away from Beijing. 4 China has 15 neighbouring countries while Canada only has one. True True True 5. Canadians cannot talk with people in their neighbouring country because they do not speak English. False People in both Canada and the USA speak English, so it is easy for them to talk to each other. A COMPARISON OF CHINA AND CANADA Li Daiyu and Liu Qian’s 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 Text LD=Li Daiyu LQ=Liu Qian LD: China is very large country. It’s about 9,600,000 square kilometres in area, and 5,000 kilometres from east to west. It’s so big that it’s difficult to describe. Perhaps it’s easier to compare it to Canada. LQ: China has many of the highest mountains in the world. They’re in the west of the country, as they are in Canada, but China has more mountains where many great 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 south. Both Canadians and Americans speak English, but it’s not so easy for Chinese to talk with their neighbo