1.expedition

2. incident

3.background

4.dilemma

5.parcel

6.swoop

7.portable

8.departure

9.compulsory

10.secure

11.aawkward

12.precise

13.accelerate

14.random

15simplify

16.gradual

17.deposit

18.tendency

19.dusk

20.reliable

Warming up:

Look at the pictures below.What do you see in the pictures?Can you recognize them?

Sydney Perth

Kakadu Canberra

Uluru

Great Barrier Reef

Melbourne

Sydney

Perth

Kakadu

Canberra

Uluru

Great Barrier Reef

a

b

c

d

ef

Melbourne g

a.a postcard from someone on holiday

b.part of a text in an encyclopedia

c.part of a tourist brochure

d.a newspaper article

e.an advertisement

Text 1

Text 2

Text 3

Text 4

Text 5

First reading

Match each reading passage with a description below.

1.The south-eastern coastal area of Australia.2.Canberra3.20 million4.26 January5.4352 kilometers6.147.a few coastal areas.8.Most people do not climb Ayers Rocks out of respect for the Aboriginal people who consider the rock to be scared.9.Cradle Mountain National Park and Uluru.

Second reading (finish exercise 1 on page 24)

1.barrier

2.adequate

3.associate

4.defence

5.policy

6.brochure

7.celebration

8.ecology

9.federal

10.tolerate

11.citizen

12.nation

13.superb

14.migrant

15.homeland

1.Australia is a popular destination with tourists from all over the world who come to experience its unique ecology.

2.However, Australia has a federal government responsible for matters that affect people all over the country , such as defence , foreign policy and taxation.

3.As you travel from Adelaide to Darwin via Alice Springs, you’ll observe some of Australia’s most spectacular landscapes – from the rolling hills surrounding Adelaide to the rusty reds of Australia’s centre and the tropical splendour of Darwin.

4.A popular attraction for active tourists is the 80-km walking track that joins the southern and northern ends of the park.

Do you understand the sentences?

exercise 3 on page 69

1.defensive

2.defend

3.defence

4.desperately

5.desperate

6.desperation

7.tolerable

8.tolerant

9.tolerance

10.tolerate

11.reserved

12.reservation

13.reserve

14.recoverable

15.recover

16.recovery

exercise 4 on page 69

1.birthplace

2.citizen

3.homeland

4.heritage

5.celebrations

6.fortnight

exercise 1 on page 70

1.run

2.finding/to find

3.painting/to paint

4.closed

5.reserved

6.staying

7.to stay

Discussion1.Each year large numbers of people become Australian citizens. If you have the chance will you choose to become an Australian? Why ?2.If you have a chance to travel Australia where will you travel?Why?

Check yourselfAfter reading carefully underline any information about Australia that you don’t know before, and then tell others with your books closed.

1. enormous number of2. be made up of3. a federal government4. come from overseas5. different cultural and social b

ackgrounds6. migrants’ homelands7. view some unique scenery8. spot a fascinating variety of w

ildlife9. most spectacular landscape10.the rolling hills surrounding 11.the tropical splendour

12.World Heritage Sites

13.a vast flat sandy

14.at dusk

15.day-to-day life

16.out of respect

17.a range of

Exercises 2 on P28

1.115 different kinds of snakes and most of the 2000 different kinds of spiders.Only a few kinds of spiders and snakes are capable of killing humans.

2.Most jellyfish can cause severe pain to anyone who touches them but only the box jellyfish can kill a human.

3.160 different kinds of sharks but 2 or 3 kinds are likely to attack humans.

4.The saltwater crocodile.

1.more than

2.venomous

3.paralyze sb/sth

4.a few varieties

5.feel threatened

6.a poisonous bite

7.medical treatment

8.vary in size

9.all but

10.less than

11.From time to time

12.be aware that

13.no more than

14.attack (n.)