Canadian Oral

[Vegeton]

Hey everyone, I'm doing a project in French class on Canada. . .yes yes I know I'm Canadian and should know more about my own country but does anyone here have any helpful tips for info about Canada or for speaking infront of the class. Man I suck at speaking infront of people I freeze up so badly. So any tips or Canada info for me anyone?

[Zune]

canada touches the US.

[FlashMage]

Oral, haha.

[Loki]

I'm French-Canadian. I will not help you because you probably hate me.

[McPaper]

At 3/28/05 04:23 PM, FlashMage wrote: Oral, haha.

So immature...Although i was expecting Canadian porn :(

[Maus]

Just look at the tops of their heads.

That whole 'pretend everyone's in their underwear' just makes it MORE awkward, IMO.

[Ozcar]

When patrotism fails, you can always trust on Google

[AbsintheClock]

Cowboy up! There's no other trick to it. Besides it's not like they're going to boo you... Unless you completly suck.

[High-Roller]

At 3/28/05 04:23 PM, Chocolate-Gnome wrote: canada touches the US.

A good start. Also:

CANADA

A country of northern North America. Originally inhabited by various Native American peoples, mainland Canada was explored by the English and the French beginning in the late 15th century. The French established the first permanent settlement at Port Royal (now Annapolis Royal) in 1605 but gradually lost control of eastern Canada, which was ceded to England in 1763 after the Seven Years' War. The Dominion of Canada was formed in 1867 and extended to the western provinces in 1905; Newfoundland formally joined the federation in 1949. The Statute of Westminster (1931) confirmed Canada's status as an independent nation within the Commonwealth. Ottawa is the capital and Montreal the largest city. Population: 23,343,181.

CANADIAN (word history)

Linguistically, mountains can be made out of molehills, so to speak: words denoting a small thing can, over time, come to denote something much larger. This is the case with Canada, now the name of the second-largest country in the world but having a much humbler origin. Apparently its history starts with the word kanata, which in Huron (an Iroquoian language of eastern Canada) meant “village.” Jacques Cartier, the early French explorer, picked up the word and used it to refer to the land around his settlement, now part of Quebec City. By the 18th century it referred to all of New France, which extended from the St. Lawrence River to the Great Lakes and down into what is now the American Midwest. In 1759, the British conquered New France and used the name Quebec for the colony north of the St. Lawrence River, and Canada for the rest of the territory. Eventually, as the territory increased in size and the present arrangement of the provinces developed, Canada applied to all the land north of the United States and east of Alaska.

Don't sleep at all the night before presenting, then drink 3 gallons of coffee in the morning. You'll be able to speak in front of the class now.

[afsdgugadouhnihdajia]

Bad title if you're asking Newgrounds...

[Ted-Easton]

Lisex votre information beaucoup temps apres vous le presenter.

Read your information lots of times before you present. Then you'll be able to talk TO the class about it, not AT them.

[RupeeClock]

At 3/28/05 04:23 PM, Chocolate-Gnome wrote: canada touches the US.

at night time?

Uh, maybe BBernal will have your answers, being british I don't know much aboot canadians, but south park has taught me that every Canadian calls everyone buddy and have cool heads, and that Ozcar is Canadian!

[T-w-i-T-c-h]

At 3/28/05 04:25 PM, ilsoft wrote: Bad title if you're asking Newgrounds...

score!
i was just about to reply that

[Ted-Easton]

Basically Canada is the U.S., but more liberal, less religious, less influential (internationally), and we haven't started a war in...forever.

[KingOfTheKill]

How about "Canada, The only country to succesfully launch an attack on American soil. We burned down the White House in 1812. w00t!!!"
<3 USA

[mightypotato]

Let's see...Canada eh? Let's see what kind of tidbits I can give.

- England won control of Canada at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham over the French (can't remember the year)
- British rulers kicked out Acadians after they would not conform to their culture. The Acadians now live in Louisiana and are now the modern "creole" people.
- Canada is home to the world's largest free standing structure, the CN Tower in Toronto
- Canada has been host to the 1976 and 1988 Olympic games ('76 - Summer, Montreal '88 - Winter, Calgary) and is host of the 2010 Winter Olympic games in Vancouver
- Canada was host to the World's Fair in 1967 to celebrate Canada's centennial year. The event took place in Montreal
- A Canadian (Dr. Frederick Banting) invented synthetic insulin
- A Canadian (Alexander Graham Bell) invented the telephone
- Canada was made a country in 1867, but did not truly achieve independance from England until the 1930's.
- Canada fought a war against the United States (War of 1812), who won is still debated
- During the War of 1812, the US burned down our capitol building in York (now modern Toronto), so we burned down the White House
- Lester B. Pearson, a former Canadian Prime Minister was the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for successfully resolving the Suez Canal Crisis of the 1950's and was President of the United Nations
- Canada shares the longest undefended border in the world with the United States
- Canada is the 2nd largest land mass in the world, behind Russia
- Canada is good at hockey, eh
- Canada has only experienced one act of terrorism on its soil which was the October Crisis of the 1970's. A Quebec separatist group known as the FLQ kidnapped and killed a member of parliament, adbucted other people and bombed various parts of Anglo Quebec
- The Canadian province of Quebec has had two separate referendums on leaving Canada. The first one was in 1980 I think and was defeated handily. The other one was in 1995 and the no side only won by 0.6%

That's all I can think of for now

[VividCG-1]

HMM, i seem to remember that canadians heads are not attached to their lower jaw, fart alot and go by names similar to terrence and philip..

[Vegeton]

At 3/28/05 04:24 PM, FBIpolux wrote: I'm French-Canadian. I will not help you because you probably hate me.

I'm from Montreal too lol. . .but I'm English, but I don't hate french canadians. I only hate french canadians who think their superior to english canadians..were equal dammit!

[shak3s]

Canada got it's name when her forfathers couldn't decide; so they pulled letters out of a hat.
"C, eh"
"N, eh"
"D, eh"
and so Canada was born.

[Vegeton]

Canada got it's name because of an indian name for a village which the british mistook as the meaning of the entire land. I know that because it was on TV, and TV never lies.