f. What is the role of the British Queen in Canada?
g. Who formed the first colony in Canada?
h. What is Canada’s national symbol?
i. What can you tell about the industry?
j. How can you characterize the population there?
k. What do you know about Canadian sports? What is Canada's national sport?
l. What is “POGG”?
V. VOCABULARY FOCUS.
A.Find words or phrases in the text which mean the following:
a) separate (par. 2);
b) thickness (par.3);
c) to picture (par. 5);
d) as an extra factor or circumstance (par. 12);
e) able to be maintained at a certain rate or level (par. 12);
f) commerce (par.11);
g) compulsory (par.13);
h) governor (par.7);
i) the ability to read and write (par.13).
B.Match the words on the left with the words on the right to form nine phrases:
1. world's most voluminous
2. boreal
3. the longest
4. the world's second-largest
5. potentially active
6. population
7. a temperate
8. maple
9. at the federal
10. according to
11. Commonwealth
a) density
b) of Nations
c) the 2001 census
d) level
e) waterfalls
f) forest
g) country
h) volcanoes
i) coastline
j) climate
k) leaf