加拿大 英文介绍课件

1、The Canadian MosaicMosaicn.马赛克，镶嵌图，拼花The difference between the USA and the Canada:the USA: (melting pot ) receive the immigrants who throw off their old customs , languages and tradition in favor of becoming “American”.Canada: (mosaic )also a nation of immigrants , but they do not throw their old w

2、ays of life and they adapt themselves to the new environment .1.Officially , Canada refers to itself as multicultural . This was an idea born during the debate on bilingualism and biculturalism in the 1960s . 2.Politicians noticed that one-third of Canadians are neither English nor French, so they i

3、nvented the idea of multicultural society .3. What is Canada : a multicultural , bilingual country where efforts are made to protect ,promote and celebrate the ways of the different kinds of people . The first Canadians “the First Nations “ : “first” because they are the original inhabitants of the

4、country . “nations ” because there is no single group or culture .Inuit (Eskimo) : live in the far north , be faced with the harsh arctic climate . They live by hunting seals , whales , caribou and polar bears.Metis : emerged when French fur traders married Indian women . Canadian population grows b

5、ecause of the official immigration policy .Immigration policy depends on the labor market in Canada . Example :To settle the prairie provinces : welcome the farmers .To develop the mining industry : welcome the miners .To develop the railway : many Chinese people went to Canada .Vancouver is home to

6、 the second largest Chinese group in North-America, after San Francisco . on the west side of Canadathe third largest city in CanadaVancouver is the magnet of the rich business people form Hong Kong.1.People from Hong Kong greatly changed the way Vancouver originally looked . 2. In Vancouver , half

7、the students speak Cantonese as their first language , rather than English or French . 3. There are many Cantonese signs and shopping centers in Vancouver , which cater to Chinese people so much .During the Great Depression of the 1930s , Canadas immigration market was refused to almost everyone but

8、 Britains and Americas .Today , there are still restrictions on Asians , while Britains and Americas and people from North Europe . In 1941， Japanese bombed the Pearl Harbour .People in Canada were afraid that the Japanese immigrants would also assist their countrys invasion . so:1.The Japanese immi

9、grants were from the coasts and kept in camps of the rocky mountains .2. Some of them are forced to go back to their own country . In recent years , the limits on the Asian immigrants have not been so severe as before . But to immigrate to Canada is still not easy . The entrepreneurial skills ;The c

10、apital Quebec (魁北克)Settlers from France established communities in 1600s , so Quebec preserves the history and the culture of France .People in Quebec mainly speak French . 81.4% of them claim French as their mother tongue . 95% of them speak French .Some of them think that they separate from Canada and form an independent state .Besides Quebec , there are many others places where people speak French .In the places where people can both speak E