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MATURITA TOPICS Canada_General facts I _13

MATURITA TOPICS Canada_General facts I _13. ANJ_Maturita. Mgr. Filip Soviš. www.zlinskedumy.cz. Canada. Basic Facts Provincies and Territories Languages Flag History Native people Political System Other. PART I. Canada. What basic facts do you know about Canada ?.

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MATURITA TOPICS Canada_General facts I _13

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  1. MATURITA TOPICSCanada_General facts I_13 ANJ_Maturita Mgr. Filip Soviš www.zlinskedumy.cz

  2. Canada • Basic Facts • Provinciesand Territories • Languages • Flag • History • Nativepeople • PoliticalSystem • Other PART I

  3. Canada What basic facts do you know about Canada? • CanadafromtheIroquois"kanata" = "village"or"settlement" • Canada'snickname"TheGreat WhiteNorth" • located in thenorthofthecontinentofNorth America • thesecond largest country by area in theworldafterRussia • part oftheCommonwealth • a mapleleaf on theflagsince 1965 (a big producerofmaplesyrup made frommaple sap) • a relativelysmallpopulationof 30 million • halfofthepopulationBritish, 30% French and the rest are FirstNations (Indians) and Inuit (Eskimos) • sixtimezones (thePacificZoneis 8 hoursbehind GMT) • rich in rawmaterials: wheat, leather, timber (halfofthe country forests) and maplesyrup

  4. Canada Canyoudividethe country? What do youknowaboutitsparts? Ten provinces • BritishColumbia (Victoria) • Alberta (Edmonton) • Saskatchewan (Regina) • Manitoba (Winnipeg) • Ontario (Toronto) • Quebec (Quebec City) • Newfoundland and Labrador(St. John's) • New Brunswick (Fredericton) • Nova Scotia (Halifax) • Prince Edward Island (Charlottetown) Threeterritories • NorthwestTerritories (Yellowknife) • Nunavut (Iqaluit) • Yukon (Whitehorse)

  5. Canada What do you know about the history of Canada? • settlementgoesback 25,000 years in someareas • theVikingsabout 1000 years ago • in the15thcenturyItalian: Giovanni Caboto in 1497 • theFrench (Jacques Cartier in 1534) up to the 18thc.  in the16thcentury"New France"(alongthe St Lawrence River) • fromthe 18thcentury, controlmoved to theBritish in thewars in 1763 anEnglishcolony • in 1812 theBritishcolonies in Canadaa waragainstthe USA • in 1867 a dominionofthe United Kingdom = independent ofthe United Kingdomexcept in foreignaffairs • in 1982 formallyseparatedfromtheUK (theCanadaAct)

  6. Canada Who are the native inhabitants of Canada?Where do they live? • camefromAsiaacross a landbridge (nowthe Bering Strait) • First Nations(in the 1980s to replace the term "Indian band"; across Canada, roughly half in Ontario and British Columbia) • Inuit (singularisInuk; the Canadian Arctic and subarctic of Nunavut; the northern third of Quebec; Labrador; theNorthwest Territories; incorrectlyand offensivelyreferred to as "Eskimos") • Métis = peoples of mixed European-First Nations ancestry

  7. Canada Whatlanguages are spoken in Canada? • a multicultural / diverse country withtwoofficiallanguages • English (about 70%) • French (about 22%) • English and French have equal status in federal courts, Parliament, and in all federal institutions • 11 Aboriginallanguagegroups (only the Cree, Inuktitut and Ojibway languages have a large enough population) • others: Chinese, Italian, German, Punjabi and Spanish

  8. Canada Could you describe the Canadian politicalsystem? • constitutionalmonarchy • headofstatethemonarchoftheUK (currentlyQueenElizabethII) - her representativeistheGovernor General • federalsystemofgovernment (nationalparliament in Ottawa) • bicameral = theSenate (theUpper House; membersappointed) and House ofCommons (theLower House; electedevery4 years) • thegovernment in the House ofCommons (the leader isthe prime minister) • eachprovince: unicameralparliament (theheadisthepremier) • a memberoftheBritishCommonwealthofNations

  9. Canada • Why is Canada popular tourist destination in your opinion? • What are some popular places to visit in Canada? • Whatistheeasiestway to travel to/in Canada?

  10. Bibliografické citace BRIDGE. Canada[online]. 2010-2013 [cit. 2013-02-28]. Soubor typu PDF. Dostupné z: http://www.bridge-online.cz/maturita/maturitni-karty BURNIE, Glen a Rob RAESIDE. FlagsoftheWorld. CRW Flags' Online Catalog [online]. 1996-2013, 2013-01-04 [cit. 2013-01-05]. Dostupné z: http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/country.html#n ALT, Tobias. PeytoLake-Banff NP-Canada[online]. 2005 [cit. 2013-02-28]. Obrázek typu JPEG, CreativeCommons. Dostupné z: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peyto_Lake-Banff_NP-Canada.jpg SMITH-DLUHÁ, Gabrielle. Angličtina: otázky a odpovědi nejen k maturitě. 1. vyd. Dubicko: INFOA, 2007, 231 s. Zrcadlový text. ISBN 978-80-7240-489-6.

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