C Is for Canada
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Table of Contents Subject: Greetings from Canada.
目录 主题:加拿大的问候。
4 Subject: My questions.
4个 我的问题
6 Subject: My family.
页:1 主题:我的家人。
7 Subject: Lacrosse?
7主题:曲棍球?
10 Subject: Family heritage, family vacation.
10 主题:家庭遗产、家庭度假。
11 Subject: Caribou or Moose?
11 主题:卡里布还是穆斯?
16 Subject: Come visit!
16号主题:来参观吧!
17 Glossary.
17 词汇表。
20 Subject: Greetings from Canada Hey Stephanie, It was so exciting to get your email yesterday!
20个主题:加拿大的问候 斯蒂芬妮 昨天收到你的邮件太激动了!
I’ve been looking forward to having a pen pal for some time now.
我期待有一个笔友,
I’m so glad your teacher in Omaha (that’s in Nebraska, right?)
我很高兴你在奥马哈的老师,
British Columbia).
不列颠哥伦比亚省)。
Do you know where that is?
你知道在哪里吗?
British Columbia is one of the 10 provinces in Canada (there are three territories, too).
不列颠哥伦比亚省是加拿大的10个省份之一(也有三个领地).
We don’t have states like the United States.
我们没有像美国这样的州。
Anyway, in your last email, you said that you are doing a report on Canada.
总之,你上次的邮件里 说你正在做关于加拿大的报告
Is this the kind of information that you’re looking for?
这是你要找的信息吗?
If not, could you be more specific?
如果没有,你能更具体一点吗?
I hope I can help.
我希望我能帮忙。
Your Canadian pen pal, Jacqueline Subject: My questions Hi Jacqueline, Good to hear from you.
你的加拿大笔友,杰奎琳 我问杰奎琳, 很高兴听到你的消息
Here, let me list some of the topics that my teacher wants covered in the report so that you have a better idea of what information I am looking for: people, economics, government, history, culture, religion, and physical geography.
在这里,让我列举一下我的老师希望在报告中涉及的一些主题,以便你更好地了解我所寻求的信息:人、经济学、政府、历史、文化、宗教和物理地理。
Hope that’s not too much.
希望这不会太过分。
So, what’s your family like?
那么,你的家人是什么样的人?
My dad sells animal feed and my mom is a waitress at the truck stop outside of town.
我爸卖动物饲料 我妈是镇外卡车站的女服务员
Do you have any brothers or sisters?
你有兄弟姐妹吗?
I don’t.
我没有。
Thanks so much for doing this, and I can’t wait to tell you about Omaha and the United States for your report next month.
我迫不及待想把奥马哈和美国的事告诉你,
Subject: My family Hey Stephanie, Wow, that is a lot of information to cover!
主题:我的家人 嘿,斯蒂芬妮, 哇,这是很多信息 覆盖!
How about this: I’ll start by talking about my family (that will at least cover your “people” section) and then maybe that will help answer some of the other sections.
这个怎么样? 我将首先谈谈我的家庭(至少包括你的“人民”部分),
Okay?
好吗?
My dad is a fisherman in English Bay.
我爸爸是英国湾的渔民
He leaves before I wake up for school because he says he has to get to the Bay before the fish wake up!
他离开之前,我醒来上学 因为他说,他必须赶去海湾 在鱼醒来之前!
Vancouver has the largest port in North America, as far as exports go.
温哥华拥有北美最大的港口,就出口而言.
It also rarely freezes, so my dad works year-round.
它也很少被冻结,所以我爸爸全年工作。
Fish are a major resource here.
鱼类是这里的主要资源.
My dad says Canada exports about 80 percent of its fish.
我爸爸说加拿大出口了80%的鱼
Other resources are iron ore, nickel, zinc, copper, gold, silver, coal, and oil.
其他资源有铁矿石,镍,锌,铜,金,银,煤等.
I found that information online at Statistics Canada (you may want to check it out).
我在加拿大统计局(Statistic Canada)上发现了这个信息(你也许想看看).
My mom drives my brother and me to school every day.
我妈每天开车送我弟弟和我去学校
She’s a French teacher (both English and French are the official languages here) at my brother’s school.
她是我哥哥学校的法语教师(这里的官方语言包括英语和法语),
He’s in 12th grade, so next year he will go to college.
他在十二年级,
Some of my classmates take the bus or the train to get to school, and a few ride their bikes.
有的同学坐公交车或火车上学,有的骑自行车.
School starts at 8:30 and ends at 3:00.
8: 30开始上学,3: 00结束.
I’m in 4th grade, like you, and my most favorite class is social studies.
我和你一样在四年级, 我最喜欢的社会研究。
Right now we’re studying the Canadian government, lucky for you!
现在,我们正在研究加拿大政府,
Let me give you some facts about the government from my notebook.
让我从我的笔记本上给你一些关于政府的事实.
Canada is a democracy, a government run by the people, just like the United States.
加拿大是一个民主国家,由人民管理的一个政府,与美国一样.
We have our own constitution and our own bill of rights.
我们有自己的宪法和权利法案。
The United States is a republic, but Canada is a constitutional monarchy in which the king or queen of England is our chief of state.
美国是一个共和国,但加拿大是一个君主立宪制国家,其中英国国王或女王是我国的国家元首.
The prime minister leads Parliament (no president here).
总理领导议会(这里没有总统).
Canada’s Parliament is made up of two houses, the Senate with 105 members and the House of Commons with 308 members.
加拿大议会由两院组成,参议院有105名议员,下议院有308名议员.
Hope that helps a little.
希望这有一点帮助。
I have to go (my mom is calling me because it’s time for lacrosse practice).
我该走了(我妈妈打电话来是因为是时候练习曲棍球了)。
I’ll try to answer the rest of your questions when I get back.
我回来后,
Talk to you soon, Jacqueline Subject: Lacrosse?
Jacqueline主题 曲棍球?
Hi Jacqueline, Thanks so much.
嗨,杰奎琳,你好吗? 谢谢
What’s lacrosse?
什么是曲棍球?
Is it like soccer?
像足球吗?
That’s what I play.
我就是这样玩的。
My mom was wondering where your grandparents are from.
我妈妈想知道你祖父母是哪里人
My grandparents are from Germany.
我祖父母是德国人
What do you do for fun?
你做什么的乐趣?
Every summer, my family goes to Florida and relaxes on the beach.
每年夏天,我的家人都会去佛罗里达,在海滩上放松.
Do you take any family vacations?
你有任何家庭假期吗?
Canada sounds so cool.
加拿大听起来很酷
Hope practice was fun.
希望练习很有趣。
Subject: Family heritage, family vacation Hi Stephanie, Practice was tough, I’m pretty tired, but I think I’m even more hungry.
主题:家庭遗产、家庭度假 嗨,史蒂芬妮,你好吗? 我感到很疲惫,
My mom is upstairs cooking dinner—we’re having caribou.
我妈在楼上做饭,
She learned how to make it from my grandpa who was Inuit.
她从我爷爷那里学的,他叫因纽特
Looks like I’m starting to answer your family heritage questions.
似乎我开始回答你的家庭遗产问题。
Before I do that, I should tell you that, yes, I do play soccer but only in gym class, and it’s not as fun as lacrosse.
在这样做之前,我应该告诉你,是的,我踢足球,但只在体育课上踢球,没有曲棍球那么好玩。
Lacrosse is kind of like soccer, but we use sticks with baskets on the end to pass the ball to another player or hopefully into a goal that’s much smaller than a soccer goal.
曲棍球有点像足球,但我们最后用有篮子的棍子将球传给另一个球员,或者希望打入一个比足球球小得多的入球。
Okay, back to my family.
好吧,回到我的家人身边。
My dad’s ancestors are from England.
我父亲的祖先来自英国。
He can trace them as far back as the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897!
他可以追溯到1897年的克隆德克金币大赛!
My mother’s father was Inuit, like I said, but her mother was of French descent — and that’s why she knows French so well.
我母亲的父亲是因纽特人,
To answer your religion question, most Canadians are Roman Catholic.
为了回答你的宗教问题,大多数加拿大人都是罗马天主教徒.
Many others are Protestant, like us, or another Christian religion.
许多其他人像我们一样是新教徒,或者另一个基督教。
Only a small number of people are Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, or Hindu.
只有一小部分人是穆斯林、犹太教徒、佛教徒或印度教徒。
Two Englishmen pan for gold during the Klondike Gold Rush.
两个英国佬在克隆迪克金币大赛期间为取出金币
Yes, we take family vacations.
是的,我们享受家庭假期。
This past summer we went to Mount Logan in the Yukon’s Kluane National Park.
去年夏天,我们去了育空地区克卢安国家公园的洛根山。
The mountain rises to 5,959 meters (19,551 feet to you), which makes it the highest point in Canada.
该山起高至5,959米(距你19,551英尺),成为加拿大最高点.
I was hoping that we would travel all the way around the country, all 9,984,670 square kilometers (or 3,854,045 square miles), but my mom and dad said that was too far.
我本来希望我们能一路走遍全国9,984,670平方千米(即3,854,045平方英里),
Did you know that Canada is the second largest country in the world?
你知道加拿大是世界上第二大的国家吗?
Canada has eight land regions: the Canadian Shield, the Hudson Bay Lowlands, the Western Cordillera, the Interior Lowlands, the Great Lakes-St.
加拿大有8个地區:加拿大盾,哈德逊湾低地,西科迪勒拉,内地低地,大湖-圣.
Lawrence Lowlands, the Appalachians, the Arctic Lowlands, and the Innuitians.
劳伦斯低地,阿巴拉契亚人,北极低地和因纽特人.
Since we headed straight north from Vancouver, we stayed in the Western Cordillera land region.
自从我们从温哥华向北直走后,我们一直停留在西科迪勒拉地區.
The scenery in this region is amazing.
这一地区的风景令人惊叹.
There are so many mountains (I hope this is helping with your “physical geography” section).
有这么多山(我希望这有助于你的“物理地理”部分)。
The two regions I really want to see sometime in my life are the Canadian Shield and the Great Lakes-St.
我生命中真正想看到的两个地区是加拿大盾和五大湖-圣.
Lawrence Lowlands.
劳伦斯·低地。
The Canadian Shield is the largest land region in Canada—it covers about half of the country!
加拿大盾是加拿大最大的陆地区域——它覆盖了全国约一半的土地!
There are plains, mountains, and many ancient rocks there.
那里有平原,山脉,还有许多古老的岩石.
The Great Lakes-St.
大湖区-圣.
Lawrence Lowlands is mostly rolling lowlands.
劳伦斯低地大多是滚动低地.
This is where Niagara Falls and Canada’s main river, the St.
这是尼亚加拉瀑布和加拿大主要河流圣河相接的地方.
Lawrence Seaway, are located.
劳伦斯·西威,就位。
This area is often called Canada’s heartland because it is a center for agricultural production and industry (isn’t that kind of like Omaha?)
这个地区经常被称为加拿大的心脏地带,因为它是农业生产和工业的中心(不是像奥马哈那样的?
Dinner’s ready, so I have to run (it smells great).
晚餐准备好了,我必须跑(闻起来很好).
As soon as I’m done, I’ll finish answering the rest of your questions.
我将回答你的其他问题。
Here I come, caribou stew!
我来了 烤肉
Jacqueline Subject: Caribou or Moose?
贾奎琳 主题:卡里布还是穆斯?
Hi Jacqueline, I had no idea Canada was so big, and I’ve never heard of caribou.
Jacqueline, 我不知道加拿大这么大,
Online, they look like moose.
在线上,它们看起来像麋鹿。
Is that true?
是真的吗?
We have lots of deer here.
这里有很多鹿
Sometimes my friends and I see them in our backyards.
有时我的朋友和我在后院看到他们
What are your friends like?
你的朋友是什么样的人?
Talk with you soon.
很快跟你谈谈
Subject: Come visit!
来参观一下!
Hi Stephanie, Many of my friends are on the lacrosse team, but my best friend Li is not.
嗨,史蒂芬妮,你好吗? 很多朋友在曲棍球队 但我最好的朋友李不是
He’s from China.
他来自中国。
Did you know that a lot of people immigrate to Canada from Asian countries?
你知道很多人是从亚洲国家移民到加拿大的吗?
Each year when school starts, I look around my classroom and see more kids who are Asian.
每年学校开学时,我都会在教室周围看看更多的亚洲孩子。
I worked on an immigration graph with Li in Math class last year that showed the number of people who came to Canada in 2003.
去年我和李在数学课上研究了一张移民图,显示了2003年来加拿大的人数。
I am sending you a copy of the graph we made (my mom helped me scan it to the computer).
我发一份我们做的图表(我妈妈帮我扫描到电脑)给你。
If you can’t open it, please let me know.
如果你无法打开,请告诉我。
You know what?
你知道吗?
I just looked at your original list of things your teacher wanted for this report, and I think we talked about all of them, except for history.
我刚刚看了你的原始清单 你的老师想要的报告, 我认为我们谈论了所有的东西, 除了历史。
I’ll go bug my dad for that (he’s a big history buff).
我将为此向我爸发问(他是一个大历史人物)。
Here, he just scanned me a timeline from one of his history books.
在这里,他刚刚扫描了我 从他的一本历史书的时间线。
I’ll attach it, too.
我也会附上。
present-day Ontario area.
目前安大略地区。
sees the Labrador coastline.
看到拉布拉多海岸线了
Quebec City, which is the first permanent French settlement in Canada.
魁北克市是加拿大第一个法国永久性居民点.
1610 Henry Hudson explores Hudson Bay.
1610 亨利·哈德逊探索了哈德逊湾.
1702 The French and British battle in Queen Anne’s War.
1702 (英语). 后安妮之战中法国和英国的会战.
parallel.
平行。
Canada, creating the Province of Canada.
加拿大,创建了加拿大省.
Dominion of Canada.
加拿大的统治者。
1897 The gold rush begins in the Yukon.
1897 (英语). 淘金从育空开始.
legislative matters.
立法事项。
1965 Canada issues a new flag.
1965年,纽约 加拿大发行新国旗.
1989 The Canada–U.
1989 (英语). 加拿大—U.
S.
师曰.
Free Trade Agreement starts.
自由贸易协定开始实施。
1999 The Inuit Territory of Nunavut is created.
1999年,纽约 努纳武特因努伊特领地被创建.
Hope I helped you with your report.
希望我帮你写报告
Maybe this next summer, you could persuade your family to come visit Canada instead of Florida.
也许明年夏天 你可以说服家人去加拿大而不是佛罗里达
You could visit Ottawa (the national capital) or Toronto (the largest city), but let’s face it, Vancouver is the prettiest place to be in the summer.
温哥华是夏天最美的地方。
You’d love it.
你会喜欢的。
Can’t wait to hear about Omaha and the United States next month.
下个月,
Take care.
小心点