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To my friend
We haven’t exchanged messages for a long time. Recently I’ve got more and more interested in Canada for the following three reasons.
The first is that I have just read an article in a Chinese magazine, whose title is “Canada’s Choice”. In the writer’s opinion, although Canada and the United States are in the same continent, they chose different ways in their development. The US, after its independence, drove many English settlers to the north—Canada. It has had such a powerful military force that when the Canadians had to choose a place to set up their capital in, the first matter they cared about was whether it was distant enough to be invaded by the Americans. So the then Queen Victoria accepted her courtiers’ advice that the capital be set up where now its name is Vancouver because it was far from the US at that time, with large and thick forests and inconvenient transport. After that within about 100 years the both countries developed in different ways. The Americans expanded positively and quickly but the Canadians were comparatively conservative. The Americans have attracted many of the intelligent and gifted people from other parts in the world and owned the strongest military force in the world and has been left as the only super-power in the world. In the meantime, however, Canada has become one of the wealthiest countries in the world, which cares much more about its people’s welfare and has its people have a comparatively equal share of its profits.
As for the second reason, I’d like to say something about the magazine “CNG” which stand for Chinese National Geography. I still remember I showed you one issue of it last year when you paid a visit to my home and we talked about the different words used in “American National Geographic”. You reminded me the American one uses the word “geographic” but the Chinese prefers “geography”. We had only a short talk in such a hurry that I forgot to ask you why and whether they have some differences. Can you do me a favor to tell me why and for what they chose the different words? And in last year’s 12th issue of CNG, there was a special scheme about Canada with some good articles and photos, for which you can visit the website cng.com.cn. and sina.com. After reading them, I found I have known much more about that country, about which in our childhood we knew it only because Chairman Mao’s famous article “In Memory of Dr. Bethune” We memorized it and always remembered that Norman Bethune helped us in the 1930s. Besides that, we knew very little about Canada, its people, its landscape, its culture, history and other useful and worthwhile information. In that issue I read some interesting essays about the Great Lakes, the Niagara Falls, the Rocky Mountains, which I used to mistake only in the US, and especially the capital Vancouver. If I’m not mistaken, you and your family are living there. How lucky you are! And I even envy you.
The last reason is that I’m going to teach my students a new unit in their new edition of textbooks. At first I felt quite curious why they gave it such a title as “A trip on The True North”. Later, preparing the teaching note, I came to know that The True North is the name for an express train. You may have remembered that when you were in China, teaching together with me, we taught a unit about Canada but it was only about the population, the size, the climate, the natural resources and such things on and on. And now I’ve got an idea that we should teach our students more about its people, culture and history. Since now we are laying more and more emphasis on intercultural communication, we’d better tell them more about the people who have lived and are living in those English speaking courtiers. I’m still impressed by the title “We, the people” of the book, which is just a history of the United States in simple English and written very briefly. And of course, now that you’re in Canada and have lived there for some time, would you please try to find some information and pictures about Canada and send them to me and let my students to share with me?
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Dear Mr Shen,
Nice to hear from you and thank you for the articles and pictures about Canada. I tried to call you on your home phone about 1:30 pm Beijing time today but failed to reach you.
I had never heard that Vancouver was recommended as the capital of Canada. I need to read more about the history of Canada when I have time.
I remember we talked about the names of the Chinese and American magazines on geography. I think the American one's full name should be "National geographic Magazine" but the word "magazine" is omitted in practice.
The Rocky Mountains are actually not far from Vancouver. When I drove here from Minnesota four years ago I passed by the Rockies on the US side. I had a plan to tour the Rockies on the Canadian size but so far I've only seen it from airplane for a couple of times. This coming May I will attend a conference in Toronto and I'll see if I can find time to visit the Niagara Falls.
After reading your email message, I explored a little bit on the Web and found this site
http://www.culture.ca/explore-explorez-e.jsp?category=200
Take a look when you have time. Looks there are some interesting resources there.
To my friend
We haven’t exchanged messages for a long time. Recently I’ve got more and more interested in Canada for the following three reasons.
The first is that I have just read an article in a Chinese magazine, whose title is “Canada’s Choice”. In the writer’s opinion, although Canada and the United States are in the same continent, they chose different ways in their development. The US, after its independence, drove many English settlers to the north—Canada. It has had such a powerful military force that when the Canadians had to choose a place to set up their capital in, the first matter they cared about was whether it was distant enough to be invaded by the Americans. So the then Queen Victoria accepted her courtiers’ advice that the capital be set up where now its name is Vancouver because it was far from the US at that time, with large and thick forests and inconvenient transport. After that within about 100 years the both countries developed in different ways. The Americans expanded positively and quickly but the Canadians were comparatively conservative. The Americans have attracted many of the intelligent and gifted people from other parts in the world and owned the strongest military force in the world and has been left as the only super-power in the world. In the meantime, however, Canada has become one of the wealthiest countries in the world, which cares much more about its people’s welfare and has its people have a comparatively equal share of its profits.
As for the second reason, I’d like to say something about the magazine “CNG” which stand for Chinese National Geography. I still remember I showed you one issue of it last year when you paid a visit to my home and we talked about the different words used in “American National Geographic”. You reminded me the American one uses the word “geographic” but the Chinese prefers “geography”. We had only a short talk in such a hurry that I forgot to ask you why and whether they have some differences. Can you do me a favor to tell me why and for what they chose the different words? And in last year’s 12th issue of CNG, there was a special scheme about Canada with some good articles and photos, for which you can visit the website cng.com.cn. and sina.com. After reading them, I found I have known much more about that country, about which in our childhood we knew it only because Chairman Mao’s famous article “In Memory of Dr. Bethune” We memorized it and always remembered that Norman Bethune helped us in the 1930s. Besides that, we knew very little about Canada, its people, its landscape, its culture, history and other useful and worthwhile information. In that issue I read some interesting essays about the Great Lakes, the Niagara Falls, the Rocky Mountains, which I used to mistake only in the US, and especially the capital Vancouver. If I’m not mistaken, you and your family are living there. How lucky you are! And I even envy you.
The last reason is that I’m going to teach my students a new unit in their new edition of textbooks. At first I felt quite curious why they gave it such a title as “A trip on The True North”. Later, preparing the teaching note, I came to know that The True North is the name for an express train. You may have remembered that when you were in China, teaching together with me, we taught a unit about Canada but it was only about the population, the size, the climate, the natural resources and such things on and on. And now I’ve got an idea that we should teach our students more about its people, culture and history. Since now we are laying more and more emphasis on intercultural communication, we’d better tell them more about the people who have lived and are living in those English speaking courtiers. I’m still impressed by the title “We, the people” of the book, which is just a history of the United States in simple English and written very briefly. And of course, now that you’re in Canada and have lived there for some time, would you please try to find some information and pictures about Canada and send them to me and let my students to share with me?
回复
Dear Mr Shen,
Nice to hear from you and thank you for the articles and pictures about Canada. I tried to call you on your home phone about 1:30 pm Beijing time today but failed to reach you.
I had never heard that Vancouver was recommended as the capital of Canada. I need to read more about the history of Canada when I have time.
I remember we talked about the names of the Chinese and American magazines on geography. I think the American one's full name should be "National geographic Magazine" but the word "magazine" is omitted in practice.
The Rocky Mountains are actually not far from Vancouver. When I drove here from Minnesota four years ago I passed by the Rockies on the US side. I had a plan to tour the Rockies on the Canadian size but so far I've only seen it from airplane for a couple of times. This coming May I will attend a conference in Toronto and I'll see if I can find time to visit the Niagara Falls.
After reading your email message, I explored a little bit on the Web and found this site
http://www.culture.ca/explore-explorez-e.jsp?category=200
Take a look when you have time. Looks there are some interesting resources there.
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