The United States of America is a union of fifty states and is the third largest country in the world

Vocabulary

English	Russian	Uzbek
Slightly	немного	sal-pal
Plain	равнина	tekislik
Heavy	обильный	kuchli
Snowfalls	снегопад	qor yog'ishi
Prairies	степь	cho'l, dasht

Say true or false
1 All Great lakes are situated in Canada.
2 People speak American English in Canada.
3 The second official language in Canada is Spanish.
4The capital of the country is Ottawa.
5 There live 18 mln people.
6 In size Canada is the second in the world after Russia.
7 Canada consists of two states and six territories.
8 Machine-building became the first important industry in Canada.
9 Canada’s natural resources are not rich.

1. 
   Read the text and decide which answer a, b, c, d best fits each space.
   

The early period of Canadian history 1)______ in the struggle between the two 2)_______: France and England. The French played the main role in the early 3) ______ of Canada. In 1605 Samuel de Champlain 4)____ the settlement of Port Royal, around which the French colony of Arcadia grew up, which later was 5) attacked by the English. In 1608 Champlain founded the township of Quebec which later became the centre of a large French colony 6)____ New France.

The two largest 7)_____ of Canadian Indians, the Algonquins and the Iroquois, were 8)______ enemies and 9)_____ at war with each other. They too became 10)____ in the struggle, the Algonquins on the French side and the Iroquois on the British side.

	a	b	c	d
1	moved	walked	ran	passed
2	powers	governments	colonies	teams
3	industrialization	organization	colonization	development
4	landed	founded	grew	found
5	repeatedly	never	lately	recently
6	sounded	titled	named	nicknamed
7	parts	teams	crews	tribes
8	alive	hardly	dead	deadly
9	permanently	constantly	never	hardly ever
10	influenced	changed	involved	invited

True or false T F

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  The capital of Canada is Ottawa _____ _____
  
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  Canada is situated in the south part of Northern America _____ _____
  

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  There are two official languages in Canada _____ _____
  
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  The population of Canada is 55 million people _____ _____
  
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  Canada has 22 Nobel Laureates in physics, Chemistry and medicine _____ _____
  

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  Canada is one of the poorest country in the world _____ _____
  
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  The head of Canada is B. Obama _____ _____
  
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  The French were the first settlers in this country
  
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  Many settlers came to Canada from England, Scotland and Ireland,
  
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  Today more than 40 per cent of the people of Canada came originally from Britain,
  
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  About 30 per cent from France and 20 per cent from other countries. 
  
  
  

2. 
   Put the correct numbers into the gaps in the sentences 
   

25,000, 24 mln., 20, 40, 330,000, 30.
1. In the country there are ____ Indians and _____ Eskimos, who live mostly in the north.
2. Today more than ____ per cent of the people of Canada came originally from Britain
3. The population of Canada is over ______ million people.
4. About_____ per cent from France and _____ per cent from other countries. 


3.Put the words in the right order 
1. The, Indians, there, in, country, 330,000, are
2. national, two, Canada,, English, French, has, and, languages
3 first, country, settlers, French, the, the, in, were, this.


4. Do you agree or disagree . “ True or False”
The French were the first settlers in this country
Many settlers came to Canada from England, Scotland and Ireland,
Today more than 40 per cent of the people of Canada came originally from Britain,
About 30 per cent from France and 20 per cent from other countries.
Answers:
1. Otawa is the capital of the country)
2Who is at the head of the Government?( prime minister)
3What is Canada washed by? (Canada is washed by the Arctic Ocean in the North, by the Atlantic Ocean in the east, by the Pacific Ocean in the west)
4What country does Canada border on in the south? (Canada borders on the United States of America)
5 7What animal is the national emblem of Canada? (beaver)
6What are Canada’s national languages? (English and French)
7What is the national tree in Canada? (the maple)
8What is the national currency?( Canadian dollar)
9How many provinces and territories are there in Canada? (the federation is made up of ten provinces and three territories)