Part I AUSTRALIA

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Part I AUSTRALIA

Text 1

Watch the presentation 1 about Australia. Translate the slides.

Answer the questions, find geographical objects on the map and show them to the group.

1. By whom was Australia discovered and when did it happen?
2. What is the official name of Australia?
3. What landscape is typical of Australia?
4. Name the greatest rivers of Australia.
5. What animals live in Australia?
6. Name big cities of Australia.
7. What is the capital of Australia?
8. Why is Australia called “the upside down of the world”?
9. What oceans and seas wash the continent?
10. Describe the flag of Australia.
11. Name the states and the territories of Australia and their capitals. Show them on the map too.
12. Name the climatic regions of the continent. Compare the seasons in Australia with those in Russia (for the NS institute).
13. What is Australia’s highest point?

Home task: look through the edition “Australia” and make a brief reference of the book presenting the general information about Australia.

Text 2

Exercise 1. Before reading the text look through the scheme of the system of education in Australia. Compare it to the Russian educational system.

Most children in Australia go to district schools. But about twenty thousand children live too far from a district school. That is why they have to work through correspondence courses until the end of the secondary school stage. The children's work is checked by one or both parents and then posted to the capital. In addition to the correspondence courses there are twelve Schools of the Air, which cover twelve million square miles.

Beginning in 2008, the Northern Territory introduced middle schools for Years 7–9 and high school for Years 10–12.

Primary

· Kindergarten (QLD) 3–4 year olds

· Pre-school / kindergarten / prep

· Kindergarten / preparatory / pre-primary National Curriculum this year-level will be renamed: Foundation Year

· Grade/Year 1: 5–6 year olds

· Grade/Year 2: 7–8 year olds

· Grade/Year 3: 8–9 year olds

· Grade/Year 4: 9–10 year olds

· Grade/Year 5: 10–11 year olds

· Grade/Year 6: 11–12 year olds

· Grade/Year 7: 12–13 year olds (QLD, SA, WA)

Secondary

· Year 7: 12–13 year olds (ACT, NSW, TAS, VIC) (middle school NT)

· Year 8: 13–14 year olds

· Year 9: 14–15 year olds

· Year 10: 15–16 year olds (high school NT)

· Year 11: 16–17 year olds (" college" ACT, TAS)

· Year 12: 17–19 year olds

Exercise 2. Read the text about school of the air. Do the exercises given before and after the text.

Text 3 (optional)

Study the following article and do the tasks

* (Do the laboratory work on the topic “Australia”)

Part II New Zealand

Text 1.

Exercise 1. Read and translate the text.

New Zealand,