Page 6 - Book V Unit 4

That night the train was speeding along the St Lawrence River
towards the Gulf of St Lawrence and down to the distant east
coast towards the province of Nova Scotia and its largest city,
Halifax. The cousins dreamt happily of the beautiful cobblestone
streets, old brick buildings, and the red maple leaves of Montreal.

2 Draw on the map a simple route of the girls’ trip across
SEEING THE TRUE NORTH VIA RAIL: Canada and make notes about what the girls did at each place.

TORONTO AND MONTREAL

ARCTIC OCEAN A

L
Baffin Bay T T
A
N
I
C

O
YUKON NUNAVUT Baffin Island Davis Strait E
C
Whitehorse A
Yellowknife N
CANADA
P
A
R
Hudson Bay
C
Saint John's
o
I
c
Gulf of
F
I
k
The Great Canadian Prairie St. Lawrence
C
Prince Edward Island
y

Jasper

Mt.Robson Edmonton ONTARIO Charlottetown

Lake Louise Fredericton Halifax

O
Vancouver Calgary Regina Québec St. Lawrence NOVA SCOTIA
C
Victoria M Winnipeg Montreal River
E
L. Superior Ottawa
t
A
L. Huron L. Ontario
s
Toronto
N
L. Michigan
.
L. Erie
3 Imagine that you are Li Daiyu. Using the map and your notes, write an email to your
parents telling them about your trip.
4 Exchange your draft with a partner. Use this checklist to help you assess your
partner’s draft. Then take your draft back and revise it according to your partner’s
comments.
Does the writer start the email with an appropriate greeting?
Is the email well-organised and coherent?
Does the writer make use of discourse markers to express different relationships
between ideas?
Are the descriptions of people and places interesting?
Does the writer end the email in a natural way?
5 Put up your email in the classroom or read it to your class.
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