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

Solve the eight across clues to find a very Canadian word. 3 Read this text about the image of Canada by famous Canadian writer Robertson Davies. Write in the adjectives where they will go. There are two adjectives that you should not use. 4 bad brave brilliant curly fair heavy inferior loud picturesque sweet 1 The Canadian flag has a _____________ leaf on it. 2 The Canadian national game. 3 This part of Canada would like to be independent. 4 Her first name is Celine and she is a Canadian singer. 5 The capital of Canada. 6 A kind of bear you find in Canada. 7 The Head of State of Canada. 8 A word meaning remote, wild parts of the country. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Today at luncheon I was reading the New Yorker when I came across an advertisement in (1) ____________ colour, inserted by the Canadian Government Travel Bureau in order to lure tourists to our (2) ____________ land. The attractions of Canada, according to this representation, comprise Mounties, totem poles, moose, Scotchmen (with bagpipes), Indians, rabbits, squirrels, deer, bears, (3) ____________ old ladies with spinning wheels, and goats with (4) ____________ horns. This is the sort of thing that makes a Canadian like myself conscious of his lack of (5) ________________ charm; I am useless as tourist bait, and to that extent I am a (6) ______________ citizen. I suppose I could learn to work a spinning wheel, and in a (7) ______________ disguise I might pose as an old lady if no tourists stopped to investigate me too searchingly. Lots of my friends could pass as totem poles of (8) __________________ workmanship. If thousands of Americans come up here expecting gaudy wonders, the least we can do is help our Government in its pious fraud. National duty luncheon [ }lUnSWn ]: Mittagessen Mounties (infml.) : Bezeichnung für Polizist/innen der Royal Canadian Mounted („beritten“) Police to work a spinning wheel: ein Spinnrad bedienen gaudy [ }gO:di ]: schrill, knallig, protzig pious [ }paçWs ] fraud: frommer Betrug (Täuschung in vermeintlich guter Absicht) What picture of Canada do you get from this text? How does it compare to the class picture you arrived at in 1 ? 50 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv