Make Your Way 7, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

If you put all the trees cut down in Canada • in one year onto a single train, that train would be 55,000 km long. Canada has the world’s longest coastline • (nearly a quarter of a million km). Canada is one of the coldest countries in the • world: The average annual temperature is 5.6 degrees below freezing. The coldest it ever got was 63ºC in February 1947. The second largest nuclear power station in the • world is in Canada. Canada is the world’s second largest country: • it is 119 times the size of Austria and has 4 times Austria’s population. Work in pairs to decide whether these statements about Canada are true or false. The Canada Quiz Canadian superlatives 2 true false   1   60% of Canadians live in the country.   2   97% of all Canadian homes have colour TVs.   3   45% of Canadian homes have computers.   4   Only 50% of the population have English as their mother tongue.   5   80% of all Canadians live near the border with the United States.   6   The Rocky Mountains run down the west coast.   7   Father Christmas is a Canadian citizen.   8   The largest Canadian city by population is Toronto.   9   All of these are Canadian inventions: telephone, insulin, radio, TV, snowmobile, basketball, kerosene. 10   There are more computer programmers in Canada than the USA (per head of population). 11   Grizzly bears are found in the US as well as in Canada. 12   First Nation Canadians (“Indians”) were only given the vote in 1960. 13   90% of Canada are uninhabited. 14   British Columbia and Alberta are on the east coast. 15   50% of the world’s fresh water is in Canada. 16   The “Xfiles” were filmed in Canada. 49 3 Extensive unit 3: Canada Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv