Listening

Complete these sentences with correct information.1. Canada encourages people to keep _________________________. their own customs/languages 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 Inuit are trying to _______________________. keep their languages alive 5. More than ____ languages are used in 80

radio and TV programmes.

6. You may find areas where many ___________________________ live people from the same culture near each other. 7. The families __________________ who lived in Canada

for a long time _____________ are usually all mixed up.

Listening textWHAT 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 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 tokeep 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 programs and newspapers and magazines in over 80 different languages across Canada, and the Toronto city government offers help to people in 70 languages.

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mountains in the world. They’rein the west of the country, as they

are in Canada, but China hasmore mountains where many great rivers begin.

LD: China has two countries to the north, Mongolia and Russia,

unlike Canada, which has nocountries 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 neighbours, even if they live close to the border.

LD: China’s Gobi Desert, in the northwest of China, is very special. There is nothing similar in Canada. In winter and spring sometimes the cold air blows dust southward from the Gobi Desert to the northern parts of China. Even the Great Wall cannot keep out the dust.