Sample Chapter - Mohammad Hashemi, Reel Canada

Scope and Sequence
Writing
Listening
Reading
Chapter 1
Apology Letters
“Leonard Cohen
“Apology and
Looks Back”
Forgiveness” Leonard Cohen,
Creative Writing:
“Bird on the
Poems Wire“ 1
Apology and
Forgiveness
Chapter 2
Complaint Letters
“Buying a Home”
“Renting an
Apartment”
Sarah Harmer,
Creative Writing: “Basement
Greeting card
Apartment” 17
messages
Housing
Chapter 3
Process Essays
“Hockey
“The North American
Superstitions”
Hockey Rink” Stompin’ Tom
Creative Writing: Connors, “The
Fan mail
“How to Play Hockey”
Hockey Song” 33
Sports
Chapter 4
Eulogies
“Superheroes”
“The Life and Death
of the Hero” Crash Test Creative Writing: Dummies, Songs
“Superman’s Song” 49 Heroes and
Superheroes
Contents
Chapter 5
Classification and
“Paranormal
“Angels”
Division Essays
Phenomena”
Sarah McLachlan, “Angel” 65
Creative Writing: Editing and
Paranormal
expanding a
Phenomena
paragraph
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Speaking
Academic
Skills
Grammar
Cultural Notes
Apologizing
• note-taking
• present perfect tense
• metaphorical
language
How to Apologize
Like a Canadian
Complaining
• interviewing
• prepositions
How to Speak
about Your House
Like a Canadian
Giving Instructions
• colloquialism
• definite and indefinite articles
Explaining a Process
Canadians Love
Hockey
Expressing Sympathy
• understanding • would
text organization
Canadian Heroes
and Symbols
Religion in Canada
Contents
Expressing Certainty
• dealing with • gerunds and
or Uncertainty homophones infinitives
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Scope and Sequence
Writing
Listening
Reading
Chapter 6
Argumentative
“Why Is It Called the “The Horrifying Truth
Essays
Greenhouse Effect?” about Climate Change”
Joni Mitchell, Creative Writing: “Big Yellow Short stories
“The Big Lies about
Taxi” 83
Climate Change”
Protecting the Environment
Chapter 7
Descriptive Writing
“Paul Anka Hits the
“Finding Happiness
(cover letters)
Top of the Charts”
Your Way”
Paul Anka, “My Way” 99
Creative Writing: Letters
Personality
Chapter 8
Narrative Essays
“The Strange Case
“Chemistry Lessons”
of Bryan Adams” Bryan Adams, Creative Writing: “It’s Only
Acrostic poems
Love” 115
Love and
Relationships
Chapter 9
Interpreting Visual
“Brian Costello:
“The Million-Dollar
Data
Helping Kids Save”
Mindset” Barenaked Ladies, Creative Writing: “If I Had
Songs/poems
$1,000,000” 131
Financial Fitness
Contents
Chapter 10
Comparison and
“April Fool’s Day
“Irony”
Contrast Essays
Used to Be Alanis New Year’s Day. Morissette, Creative Writing: No, Really.”
“Ironic” 151
Cartoon captions
Irony
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Speaking
Academic
Skills
Grammar
Arguing for or
• summarizing
• noun clauses
against an Idea
• alliteration
Describing
• understanding
• adjective clauses
Personality collocations
(job interviews)
Cultural Notes
Canadians and the
Environment
Canadians Are
Happy
Weddings in
Canada
Negotiating
• editing
• conditional
sentences
Are Canadians
Rich?
Using Humour
• mind-mapping
• subordinating conjunctions of
time
Canadian Ironists
Contents
Telling a Story
• making
• active and timelines passive voice
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Chapter 3
Stompin’ Tom Connors
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The Hockey Song
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Introduction
Sports: Self-Test
Below you will find specialized terminology related to some of the most popular sports in
Canada. Look at the table and see if you recognize which sport each group of words refers to.
Sport
Terms
1.
bully, puck, rink, power play
2.
kickoff, cleat, field, nil
3.
point guard, basket, court, slam dunk
4.
cradling, crosse, field, scooping
5.
curler, stone, sheet, broom
6.
tee, club, course, putt
7.
pitcher, batter, field, catcher
7. baseball
3. basketball
6. golf
2. soccer
5. curling
1. hockey
4. lacrosse
Answers
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Now, in groups of two or three, see how many of the terms you can define.
Singer-Songwriter Profile
Singer, songwriter, and musician Charles Thomas Connors was born on February 9, 1936, in St.
John, New Brunswick. The nickname Stompin’ Tom was given to him because of his habit of
stomping the heel of his left boot when singing. Stompin’ Tom usually writes about Canadian
history and folklore. Some of his popular songs include “Bud the Spud,” “Big Joe Mufferaw,”
“The Black Donnellys,” “The Martin Hartwell Story,” “Reesor Crossing Tragedy,” “Sudbury
Saturday Night,” and “The Hockey Song” (which is often heard at NHL games in Canada).
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The following passage is abridged from Tom’s autobiography, in which he describes
how his 1972 “Hockey Song” suddenly became popular twenty years after it was first
recorded. The tone of Tom’s writing is very conversational. Look at the underlined
colloquial words and expressions in the text and see if you can replace them with more
formal synonyms.
Another interesting thing happened in the fall of ’92. Andy Burgess, the guy responsible for
playing the taped music during the Ottawa Senators’ hockey games, opened the season with a
brand-new twist. Instead of playing the usual high-powered rock songs during the commercial
breaks, he popped on an old country song by Stompin’ Tom “just to see how it would go with the
fans.” And wonders never cease. The old song became an instant hit with everybody, and “The
Hockey Song” was reborn.
The next thing you know, Pat Burns, coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs, heard the song while the
Leafs were playing the Senators and decided to try it at the Gardens. The fans took to it right
away.
Now a lot more teams were hearing it and taking it back to their home rinks, and pretty soon
“The Hockey Song” had become the main theme at every hockey game throughout the NHL. And
not only in Canada and the States, but a lot of European countries were playing it as well. The
fans were taking to it everywhere, and this prompted other groups to record it.
So what was really happening here? That was the question that was on my mind. I had written
and recorded “The Hockey Song” some twenty years before all this took place. And had it been
played on radio twenty years before? No. And like all other Stompin’ Tom songs, radio completely
ignored it ….
No matter which way you look at it, for twenty years they have deprived the Canadian public
of hearing a song that would have been liked equally well back then as it is now. And you know
what? Now that it’s well known that “The Hockey Song” has finally become popular with the
people, they still won’t play it ….
I’m speaking about what happened in 1992. And a lot of hockey has been played since then.
There’s a lot of new hockey players, a lot of new fans, and a lot of new coaches and general
managers.
Song Warm-Up Questions
1. What is the most popular sport in the world?
2. What are the two official sports of Canada? Which of the two is more popular in
Canada? Which is older?
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And as times have changed, we now see Ken Dryden as the general manager of the Toronto Maple
Leafs. He happened to be another Stompin’ Tom fan. And although Ken, or anybody else, still
can’t hear this twenty-eight-year-old “Hockey Song” on the radio, he and another few million
can get to hear and enjoy it around the world wherever hockey is played. (Kudos for hockey and
kicks for radio.)
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The Song
The Hockey Song
1.
Hello all there, we’re on the air,
It’s hockey night tonight;
Tension goals, the
And the
blows,
goes down the ice.
jumps, and the players
The
burp,
And the fans all go insane;
Someone rolls “Bobby
At the good old hockey game.
!”
Oh! the good old hockey game,
Is the best game you can name;
And the best game you can name
Is the good old hockey game!
Third period . . .
, too!
Last game in the
Oh, take me where the hockey players,
off down the
,
And the Stanley
is all filled up,
For the chaps who win the drink.
Oh! the good old hockey game,
Is the best game you can name;
And the best game you can name
Is the good old hockey game!
,
And one gigantic screen;
Second period . . .
is in—the home team wins
The
The good old hockey game!
Now the final flick of a hockey
Where players clash with
a-flash,
The home team fails behind;
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Some words related to hockey have been
taken out of the lyrics below. Fill in the blanks
with the missing parts as you listen.
and go
But they grab the
bursting up,
And they’re down across the line.
Oh! the good old hockey game,
Is the best game you can name;
And the best game you can name
Is the good old hockey game!
like bumble
They stall the
bees,
They travel like a burning flame;
We see them snide the
It’s a one-one hockey game!
2.
inside,
The person who transcribed the lyrics above misheard the words in blue. Listen to the
song again and replace the blue words with the correct words.
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Vocabulary
Find the words and expressions below in the song. Pay attention to the context. Try to guess
each word or expression’s meaning and write the definition beside it. Then, check your
dictionary or encyclopedia to see if you guessed correctly.
Term
Definition
On the air
Tension
Dash
Crease
A-flash
Trail behind
Burst up
Playoff
Face-off
Stanley Cup
Flick
Gigantic
Home team
Comprehension and Discussion Questions
1. The singer starts the song with “We’re on the air.” Why does he say we are on the air?
Does the rest of the song support your theory? How?
2. In the second stanza he says, “Bobby scores!” Considering when the song was written
(1972), who do you think Bobby is? How many famous hockey players do you know
named Bobby?
3. In the second period, the songwriter uses the image of bumble bees partly because of
the way hockey players swarm the goal. Is there any other reason for this image? Is
there a famous hockey team whose uniform makes the players look like bumble bees?
You can get a clue from your answer to the previous question.
4. What is the Stanley Cup? How is it related to winning a drink?
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In pairs or small groups, discuss the following questions.
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“!
?
...
Grammar
Articles
“
Countable Singular Nouns
Countable
Plural Nouns
Uncountable
Nouns
Definite Article
the
the
the
Example
the red rose
the red roses
the bottled water
Indefinite Article
a/an some (or no article)
some (or no article)
a rose/an apple
some roses/roses
some water/water
In general, we use the definite article the when we know which item(s) we are talking
about:
I need the red rose, not the pink one.
I need the red roses, not the pink ones.
We use indefinite articles (a, an, some) when we don’t know or don’t care which item we
are talking about:
I need a rose. It’s not important which colour.
I need some roses. It’s not important which colours.
I need some water. It’s not important if it is bottled or tap water.
The indefinite article some could sometimes be dropped with little or no change in
meaning:
I need roses.
I need water.
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When something or someone is mentioned for the first time, we usually use indefinite
articles. When the same thing or person is mentioned again, we use the definite article.
In 1891, a Canadian professor from Almonte, near Ottawa, who taught physical
education in Springfield, Massachusetts, was asked to invent a new game for his
students. The professor put together some twelve rules for the new game. The
twelve rules became the basis of modern basketball.
In the paragraph above, we use a and some for professor, game, and rules when they are
first mentioned, but we use the the second time we talk about them.
Some other common uses of the
with unique items
the moon, the sun, the North Pole, the east,
the west
with superlatives
the best game, the most beautiful place
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with a noun followed by a phrase
the game of hockey, the house on the hill
with ordinal numbers
the Second World War, the first season
with adjectives used as group nouns
the British, the poor, the rich
with all bodies of water (except lakes, falls, the Pacific Ocean, the Labrador Sea, the Ottawa
and bays) River, the Atlantic, the Panama Canal
with points of time
the beginning, the end, the past, the future,
the morning, the afternoon, the winter, the
summer, the sixties, the eighties, the Middle
Ages, the Renaissance
with mountain ranges
the Alps, the Rockies, the Himalayas
with physical positions
the top, the bottom, the back, the front, the
outside, the inside
with musical instruments
the violin, the flute, the piano
with names of institutions, political parties, the UN, the NDP, the Liberal Party, the executive,
government branches and bodies, sports the legislative, the Navy, the police, the Montreal
teams
Canadians, the Senators
with parallel comparative sentences
The more, the better! The heavier, the stronger!
Exercise A
Go back to the lyrics of “The Hockey Song” and underline all the articles. Can you find the
reason why each article was used?
Exercise B
Fill in the blanks with definite and indefinite articles.
3
baseball pitcher strikeouts are what home runs are to 2
indication of letter-perfect efficiency. Last week, when 38-year-old Robert
Moses “Lefty” Grove of 4
game with 6
Boston Red Sox struck out six batters in 5
Detroit Tigers, he: 1) won his third consecutive game of 7
current season and 8
260th of his 14-year career in 9
2) pitched his team from third to second place in 10
himself in 11
batter:
American League,
pennant race, 3) benched
lofty niche reserved for pitchers who have passed 12
2,000–strikeout mark. Only six major-leaguers in 13
long history of US baseball had
attained that niche before Lefty Grove: Walter Johnson (3,497 strikeouts in 21 years), Cy Young
(2,836), Christy Mathewson (2,447), Rube Waddell (2,369), Grover Cleveland Alexander (2,184),
and Dazzy Vance (2,030).
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To 1
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Grammar Reinforcement
Editing: The paragraph below contains ten errors in article usage (a/an, some/any, the).
Find and correct the errors.
Lacrosse is the team sport played with a netted stick and some rubber ball.
The objective of game is to catch, carry, and pass a rubber ball using the stick
in order to score by shooting into the opposing team’s goal. Lacrosse can be
played both outdoors (field lacrosse) and indoors (box lacrosse).
Lacrosse is one of oldest team games in the North America. It was originally
played by First Nations people in Upper Canada as a ritual involving hundreds
of players from the different tribes. In the nineteenth century, a young doctor
from Montreal named William George Beers became interested in the game,
made any changes and designed rules to modernize the game.
Today the game of lacrosse is governed by the Federation of the
International Lacrosse (FIL) and is enjoyed by players and spectators all over
world.
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Creative Writing
Fan mail is mail that is sent by admirers to famous people such as actors, singers,
athletes, or artists. The mail could be a letter, a card, a work of art, or a combination of
some or all of these.
Write fan mail to your favourite singer or athlete. Try to be creative and original to
distinguish your mail from the thousands of other messages your celebrity receives. If
you want, you can share your letter in class with your classmates or even send it to your
favourite celebrity. Some celebrities actually do take the time to answer some of their
fan mail. Who knows? You might even get an answer back, along with an autographed
souvenir!
Assignment
There are several other popular sports songs that you have probably heard before.
A good example is the song “Eye of the Tiger” written by the American rock band
Survivor at the request of Sylvester Stallone for his Rocky III movie. Other songs
often heard in sports arenas are “We Are the Champions” and “We Will Rock You,”
both by Queen. Can you think of any other famous sports songs? Make a list of your
favourites and bring the list to class to share with others.
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Listening Comprehension
Warm-Up Questions
1. Do you believe in luck?
2. Do you know people who perform certain rituals to ward off evil?
Hockey Superstitions
Exercise A
Listen to a CBC radio interview dated April 7, 1976, in which hockey players and coaches
talk about their superstitious ways of bringing luck to their game, then write as much
information as you can about the following items or activities. What routine do players
perform with each item? What do they believe the item does for them?
Item/Activity
Ritual and effect
T-shirt/sweater
Bracelet
Socks
Skates
Packing the bag
Stick
Taping
Sweeping
Road
Photographs
Jersey numbers
Exercise B
Listen to the interview a second time and answer the following questions.
1. What kind of ritual is mentioned about medieval knights?
2. What does the father of one of the players do before every game? What is his job?
3. Which of the items in the table above is the most frequently mentioned object of
superstition?
Check the Internet to find examples of famous athletes performing superstitious rituals
before, during, or after their games.
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Hat
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Reading
Warm-Up Questions
1. What is your favourite sport? How is it played?
2. What do you know about hockey (number of players, rules, the rink, etc.)?
The North American Hockey Rink
The North American hockey rink is a rectangle with rounded corners and is 200 feet long
and 85 feet wide. The rink is surrounded by a 40-inch-high wall called the boards. There are
lines painted on the ice surface. The red centre line divides the ice in half. Two blue lines on
either side of the centre line divide the rink into three zones. The area between the two blue
zone lines (50 feet long) is called the neutral zone. The two areas behind the blue lines (each
64 feet long) are called defending and attacking zones. There is a red line behind each blue
line called the goal line. The puck must cross the goal line (11 feet from the boards) into the
goal to be counted.
At each end of the ice, there is a goal (right on the goal line) consisting of a metal frame
(6 feet wide) and a net. In front of each goal, there is a blue semi-circle called the crease.
Exactly in the middle of the rink, there is a blue face-off circle (30 feet in diameter) with a big
blue spot in its centre marking the centre of the rink. There are also four red face-off circles
(30 feet in diameter each) with red dots in their centres, two in the defending zone and two
in the attacking zone.
Exercise
200 feet
85 feet
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Based on the description above, mark all the rink lines, circles, and spots. Use arrows to
specify sizes, and label zones and areas based on the passage. The goal frames and rink
length and width arrows have already been drawn as examples.
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How to Play Hockey
Helmet
Stick
Protective
Padding
Skates
To play hockey, each player needs to have a stick, a helmet, skates, and protective padding.
Each hockey team has six players on the ice at any one time: one goalie, two defenders (right
and left) and three forwards (centre, right wing, and left wing).
To win the game, one team has to score more goals than the opposite team. A goal is scored
when the puck goes past the goal line and enters the net. A goal does not count if the puck is
thrown in by the hand or kicked in by the foot, but is acceptable if it ricochets (bounces) off a
player’s body and enters the goal by accident.
A face-off is a fight between opposing players (usually the centres) to take possession of the
puck when the referee drops the puck at the beginning of the game or any time the whistle
stops play.
Violations:
During the game, an off-side violation is called if a player from the attacking side enters the
attacking zone before the puck enters that zone. The game stops after an off-side and a faceoff is conducted.
Icing occurs when the team in possession of the puck shoots it from behind the red centre
line across the opponent’s goal line into the end of the rink (but not into the goal) and a
member of the opposing team touches it first. Icings result in a face-off.
A penalty is given to players for bad behaviour. When this happens, the player is penalized by
having to leave the game and stay in the penalty box for two to ten minutes depending on the
severity of the violation. In such cases, the penalized team (with five players) is said to be in
“penalty kill” and the team with six players is on a “power play.”
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Each game is played in three periods of twenty minutes, and the players get a seventeenminute rest after each of the first two periods. If the game is tied at the end of regulation time,
the game goes into overtime.
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Vocabulary
Based on the information on pages 42 and 43, find the terms that the following definitions
refer to. The first one has been done as an example.
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Term
Definition
Puck
A hard rubber disk used as a ball in hockey
The wall surrounding the rink
The area of the rink between the blue lines
To spring back or bounce off
A fight between two centres to take initial possession of the puck
The area in front of the goal
Protection for the body
When no team wins because they both have equal points
The normal time of a game (without extra time)
Extra time added at the end of the normal game time if there’s no winner
The situation where a team has more players on the ice than the
opponent has
The situation where a team has fewer players on the ice than the
opponent has
A violation when a player enters the attacking zone before the puck
A violation where the puck is shot the length of the rink beyond the
opponent’s goal
The line that passes from one side of a circle to the other side of the circle,
through the centre point
Parts of Speech
competition (noun)
compete (verb)
competitive (adjective)
competitively (adverb)
competitor (noun)
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Read each of the following quotations carefully and fill in the blank with the correct form of a
word from the box on page 44.
“If you’re a
your shoulder.”
person, that stays with you. You don’t stop. You always look over
—Magic Johnson
“The only
of a wise man is with himself.”
—Washington Allston
“
is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely
.
Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic
it keeps us on our toes.”
and
—Bill Gates
“You were placed on this earth to create, not to
.”
—Robert Anthony
“If you’re not a
, you’ve just got to go home.”
—Venus Williams
“
else will.”
in sports has taught me that if I’m not willing to give 120 percent, somebody
—Ron Blomberg
“The idea is to build confidence, then start performing
“If you don’t have a
advantage, don’t
, then start winning.” —Chuck Priore
.”
—Jack Welch
“I’m not in
with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.”
—Celine Dion
Pair Work: Discuss the quotations with your partner. Which ones do you agree or disagree with?
Why? Which one is your favourite?
Speaking
Giving Instructions or Explaining a Process
When you do not know how to do something, you usually ask for instructions, directions, or
guidance. To ask for instructions you can use question words like how or what:
How is hockey played?
What is the right way to fill out tax forms?
How do you drive a manual car?
What do you suggest I do to get better marks?
How do I get from downtown to your house?
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“
take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder.
Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up.”
—Nancy Lopez
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The person giving the instructions usually puts them in order or sequence using
words such as:
First (of all),
Second/Then/Next/After that,
Last/Lastly/Finally/In the end,
First, drive south on Main Street. Then, turn left at Queen and drive two
blocks down to take the highway ramp 80 west. Drive on the highway for
about twenty minutes and take Exit 45 for Laurier Boulevard. Turn right
at Pine Street. Finally, take Jasmine Crescent on your left and you’ll see my
house on your left, beside the gas station.
The person giving the instructions might also give you warnings or advice such as:
Don’t forget to fasten the seat belt first!
Make sure the bulb is cool before touching it!
Be careful not to touch the wires before turning off the electricity from the breaker
box!
Remember to bring warm clothing with you!
Exercise: How to …
In teams of two, give and receive instructions. Give and receive warnings and
advice if necessary. Switch roles after each situation.
1. 2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
how to make an omelette
how to play your favourite sport
how to play a childhood game
how to deposit money using an ATM
how to go (on foot) from school to the nearest shopping centre
how to do a proper push up
Idioms and Expressions
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Check your dictionary and find the definitions for each of the following everyday
expressions borrowed from different sports. Try to guess the original sport that
gave rise to each idiom. The first one has been done as an example.
Expression Across the board Definition and sport
Including everyone or everything (from horse racing bets)
Ball in somebody’s court
Blow the whistle on somebody
Call the shots
Cover all of one’s bases
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Get the ball rolling
Bat for someone
Hit someone below the belt
Hit the bull’s eye
Keep an eye on the ball
Take eyes off the ball
Be on a par with
Right off the bat
Throw in the towel
Touch base with somebody
Now, use each idiom in a sentence of your own and share your sentences with your
classmates.
Cultural Notes
Canadians Love Hockey
This is the back of a Canadian five dollar bill.
Which winter sports are portrayed in
the picture?
The winters of my
childhood were
long, long seasons.
We lived in three
places — the
school, the church
and the skating
rink — but our real
life was on the
skating rink.
The words are taken from the first paragraph of a popular Canadian short story named
“The Hockey Sweater,” by Roch Carrier.
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Read the sentences in fine print in the lower left-hand corner under the number 5.
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Ancient hockey-like games were played by Canada’s Aboriginal peoples, but modern hockey
as we know it today was formed in Canada in the late 1800s, mostly by British Army officers,
and was later refined by McGill University students.
Lacrosse, the sport that was invented by Aboriginal peoples in Canada, has been Canada’s
official sport since the country was founded. However, hockey remains Canada’s number one
sport, so much so that in 1994, the government decided to name hockey the national sport
of Canada. As a result of objections by First Nations leaders, the House of Commons decided
to recognize hockey as Canada’s winter sport and lacrosse as Canada’s summer sport.
Other popular sports in Canada are baseball, basketball, football, cricket, rugby, curling, and
golf.
Exercise
1.Why do you think hockey is so popular in Canada?
2.Have you ever seen a hockey card? Why do you think hockey cards are so popular with
kids in Canada?
3.If you come from another culture, is there a sport that is as passionately followed by
people in your culture?
Writing
Process Essays
Chapter 3 • Stompin’ Tom Connors
Process essays explain the steps involved in doing something. The test of a good process
essay is its application. If the instructions are clear and well-written, a person with little or
no experience in the field should be able to follow them easily and perform the task. Review
the advice in the speaking section of this chapter before doing the exercise below.
Exercise
Write a process essay explaining how to do one of the games you played as a child. You can
refer to the reading passage “How to Play Hockey” as an example.
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