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4. Safe Travel to Nunavut
Description
Level: pre-intermediate (B1).
Time: 30 minutes (without the extension)
Skills: writing, reading, speaking
Activity: This activity offers some practical trips for future visitors of Nunavut Parks and shows
how this experience may be different from visiting a natural park in Central Europe.
Preparation: Photocopy a worksheet for each student or student pair. You may also print out a
detailed map of Nunavut to accompany the worksheet.
(http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/reference/provincesterritories/nunavut)
Procedure: Give students a few minutes to browse the text for unknown words. To complete the
activity, tell students that each gap has ONE preposition missing, which they have to supply
while reading the information. The numbers 2 and 4 in brackets mean that those items can be
used twice or four times, respectively. Advise students to cross out the prepositions they have
already used. At the end of the activity, you can play the questions game: students sit in a circle,
and, one by one, they have to ask the class one question about the text. If they cannot, or if they
ask a question someone else has asked before, they are out. The winner is the person who
remains last.
Extension/ variation: If you divide the class into two, you may ask one group to fill in the
original activity, the other group the one below. After checking the correct solutions students can
pair up and inform each other on the content of their text.
You are going to read a text how to cross streams and rivers while travelling in Nunavut Parks
in the North of Canada. Some nouns and adjectives given are missing from the text. Fill in the
gaps correctly. Use only one word in each gap.
levels - safe - course - cold - immediate - lower - flat - tumbling - crossing - major – flow - necessary
- ski pole - ability - strongest
Stream and river depths can change over the _________ (1) of a day and from one day to the next. This
creates a challenge to assess _________ (2) crossings. Rivers in Nunavut are also very _________ (3) and
must be treated with additional caution when crossing. Consider the following:
Cross _________ (4) rivers and streams early in the day, especially those that are glacier fed. Water
_________ (5) tend to be lowest early in the morning when the sun is weakest.
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