Ask students to go over the passage and find out their own difficult points in reading. Then discuss in groups of four trying to solve the problems together.
1. The four teams try to find some difficult points of the text and take turns to ask the other teams to solve these problems.
全班分为四组，各组依次就课文内容提出一个问题让其他组回答，答对组得分。
2. The teacher offers help at last if necessary.
3. The teacher can get them to paraphrase some sentences and check their understanding.
① Many of them have a gift for working with animals and they can win thousands of dollars in prizes.
② Most Canadians live within 320 kilometers of the USA border, and in fact, the population of Canada is only slightly over thirty million.
③ That idea that you can cross Canada in less than five days is just wrong.
第五步 口语训练（采取双人活动进行讨论、复述和编对话）
不错哦
1. Ask the students to use three words to describe Canada and explain the reason according to what they have read in the text.
Suggested answer: big; empty; beautiful
(It is the second biggest country in the world; The idea that you can cross Canada in less than five days is just wrong; The population of Canada is only slightly over thirty million; You will see mountains and pass thousands of lakes, forests and wide rivers as well as cities.)
2. Have the students circle the places mentioned in the text and then draw the route of the two girls traveling across Canada on the map on page 33. Retell what they saw and what they heard at those places.
Ask students to exchange their opinions in groups of two and then ask some students to report.