Englisch Abivorbereitung Canada + Skills File PDF

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Stichwortartige Zusammenfassung über das abiturrelevante Thema "Canada" und über zu beherrschende Methodik, genannnt "Skills FIle"...

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Canada General facts

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Social & political This is Canada

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Political system Multiculturalism

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Anglophones & Francophones Foundation & Independence

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Immigration waves Black History Month

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Regional & economical geographical regions

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greenhouse effect resource water

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the Arctic oil sands

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economy Canada - USA

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destroying environment Cultural

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Indigenous People sufferings in history

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today’s life Nunavut Skills File stylistic devices

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Reading: Text types non-fictional/factual texts:

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fictional texts: Writing: overview of different text types

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Article Comment

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Essay Interpretation

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Letter Review

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Writing: Formal letter or email Writing: Essay

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Writing: Comment Mediation

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Canada General facts ● ● ● ● ● ●

2nd largest country in the world (almost 10 M/10.000.000 skm) population: ~ 35 M (35.000.000) 6 time zones 3 oceans (Atlantic, Arctic, Pacific) Capital: Ottawa, Ontario prime minister: Justin Trudeau

Social & political (e.g. issues of ethnic diversity, impact of immigration waves) This is Canada ● ●

„a land of many nations“ & „a nation of immigrants“ multiculturalism ○

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first country, which established multiculturalism to its policy (Multiculturalism Act in 1988 by Pierre Trudeau) ○ Combination of First Nations, British, French, Asian and American influences diversity, heterogeneity, multiculturalism became an important aspect of defining the identity

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in 1967: no restriction of the number of immigrants, but criterias (relatives, speaking English/French..) for immigrating were established → no formal discrimination because of religion, ethnicity or nationality

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bilingualism

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lack of identity

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society is more defined by what they are not (American)

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freedom & democracy

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the USA classifies Canada as having one of the highest living standards in the world

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sesquicentennial = 150 years of Canada (2017)

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mosaic/salad bowl instead of melting pot (...