Country studies: Canada. Canada’s history, geography and cultural identity

УО «БЕЛОРУССКИЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ»

Н.А.

COUNTRY STUDIES: CANADA

Страноведение: Канада

Лекции на английском языке

                                                      Минск: 2012      

Рецензент: Могиленских Н.П., заведующий кафедрой межкультурной экономической коммуникации Учреждения образования «Белорусский государственный экономический университет», кандидат филологических наук, доцент

Рекомендовано кафедрой профессионально ориентированной английской речи и кафедрой межкультурной экономической коммуникации БГЭУ

Страноведение: Канада = Country Studies: Canada. Лекции на английском языке / Н.А. . - Мн.: БГЭУ, 2012.  –72с.

Предлагаемые вниманию студентов факультета «Высшая школа туризма» лекции представляет собой учебное пособие по страноведению и лингвострановедению Канады. В них приводятся интересные, полезные и новейшие сведения о прошлом и настоящем Канады, культуре, политике, экономике, т.д. Тексты информативны, сопровождаются словарем, кратким содержанием и ключевыми вопросами по теме. В каждую тему включена дополнительная информация, которая может быть использована на семинарских занятиях. При подготовке издания использованы оригинальные источники информации - в т.ч. книги, периодические издания и Интернет.

Contents

Preface…………………………………………………………………………….4

Lecture 1. Canada’s history, geography and cultural identity……………………5

Lecture 2. Canada’s government and economy…………………………………37

PREFACE

These lectures were designed to introduce the students majoring in international tourism and intercultural communication to the world of Canada’s studies. It incorporates the study of geography, economy, history, politics, and culture, Canadian stereotype and identity, population growth and structure. Lecture 2 provides a comprehensive analysis of the U.S.A. and Canada economies.

A key goal is to stimulate the students’ curiosity about Canada. While reading the students will become better informed and more experienced in understanding Canadian American culture and people. And understanding of cultural difference leads to an ability to communicate across difference, even if we don’t share the same beliefs, values, and objectives, etc.

The course brings together ideas, concepts and facts from a wide variety of sources. Structurally, it is divided into two big lectures; each lecture offers the following four tools:

First, a statement of the major themes to be found in the lecture;

Second, a list of key words and proper names;

Third, a structured text complemented by additional information under the headline Interesting to know;

Fourth, a summary of key points with a series of discussion questions.

Hopefully, with the knowledge improved and expanded by this course, University graduates will have the expertise necessary to gain employment in the field of their major.

Lecture 1. Canada’s History, Geography and Cultural Identity. 

This lecture will cover the following items: 

·  Canada’s early history

·  Canada’s  physical and political geography

·  Canada’s capital and largest cities

·  Physical environment and climate

·  Demographics

·  Culture and Canadian Identity

Key Words and Proper Names:     indigenous inhabitants, the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis, Iroquois; permafrost; John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain the St. Lawrence River, the Maritime Provinces, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, and Manitoba, the Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, the Dominion of Canada, the Great Plains, the Canadian Cordillera, and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago; the Appalachian Region, the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands, the Canadian Shield, the Quebec City – Windsor Corridor, the BC Lower Mainland, and the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor in Alberta, Toronto, Montréal, Vancouver, Ottawa, Hull, Edmonton, Canadian identity, Anglophone and Francophone Canada, the federal Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

The name Canada comes from the St. Lawrence Iroquois word kanata, meaning "village" or "settlement". In 1535, indigenous inhabitants of the present-day Quebec City region used the word to direct French explorer Jacques Cartier to the village of Stadacona. Cartier later used the word Canada to refer not only to that particular village, but also the entire area which belonged to Donnacona (the chief at Stadacona); by 1545, European books and maps had begun referring to this region as Canada.           While this explanation of the origin for the name Canada