Revision Check the answers and discuss the questions in the appositive clauses. 1. Page 37 (Tb); 2. Page 93 (Yh).

Pre-listening What do you know about Canada’s language people culture and customs? Now read the incomplete sentences in Ex. 2 (Page 37, Tb) and guess what the topic of the listening text is.

While-listening Listen only once and find out what are mentioned in the listening text. culture, customs, races, languages, agriculture, cities, families, education.

While-listening Listen again and finish Ex. 2 (P37). 1. Canada encourages people to keep their own customs. 2. Canada is a mixture of many cultures and races. 3. If you live in the province of Quebec, you are expected to speak French. 4. Native Indians and the Inuit are trying to keep their languages alive. 5. More than 80 languages are used in radio and TV programmes. 6. You may find areas where people from the same culture live near each other. 7. The families who have lived in Canada for a long time are usually all mixed up.

Post-listening What is a Canadian? I am a C____ and p____ of my country. However, people sometimes don’t know what b____ Canadian really means. People who come to Canada are e_________ to be proud of their own c______ and keep their own c_____. E________ the native Indians, everybody else who lives here came from another country or their a____ did. Canada is a m____ of many cultures and races （种 族；民族）. It is w__ we call a m_________ country.

We have two o_____ l__________ （官方语言）, French and English. Even t______ we encourage people to keep their own customs, we expect everyone to learn French or English in o______ to live in Canada. If you live in the p__________ of Quebec, you are expected to speak French. However, the n_____ Indians and the Inuit （因纽 特人） of Canada are still trying to keep their languages a_______. You can hear some of their languages in the names of rivers and lakes as well as cities. “Canada” means v______. Toronto and Ottawa are also native Indian names. There are radio and t________ p______ and newspapers and m____________ in over 80 languages across Canada, and the Toronto city g______ offers help to people in 70 d_______ languages.

Many of our big cities have a___ where people from the same culture live near each other – there m____ be a Chinatown, a little Italy, a Korea Town and so on. However, People whose f_____ have lived in Canada for a long time are s_____ to be all mixed up. My own family is a m______ of English, native Indian and French. My n________ family is Chinese, German and A________! So when I say that I am proud to be a Canadian, maybe you can help me d_____ what a Canadian is.

Post-listening In pairs take turns to ask and answer the following questions. Make notes and be ready to present your conversation to the class. 1. What is a Canadian? 2. Why do people say that Canada is a multicultural country?

Homework 1. Review the listening text; 2. Preview the second text on Page38(Tb). 3. Do some exercises in Yh.