Презентация, доклад к открытому уроку по теме: Australia - Австралия

образования ТОЛЬЯТТИНСКИЙ МАШИНОСТРОИТЕЛЬНЫЙ КОЛЛЕДЖ

Мультимедийная презентация
по дисциплине английский язык
«What do you know about Australia?»

Выполнила: А.А. Шашкина,
преподаватель английского языка

Тольятти 2014

– промышленные города
population - население
inhabitant - житель
huge - огромный
land – земля
desert - пустыня
harbor - гавань
federal state – федеральное государство
head of Government – глава правительства
head of State – глава государства
mining – горная промышленность
agriculture – сельское хозяйство
source of income – источник дохода
unique – уникальный
platypus - утконос
natural features – природные явления

Australia - Oz, Down Under, and the official name, the Commonwealth of Australia - but the name that the Australians like is «the Lucky Country».

lucky to the first European settlers. They were
convicts who had been transported from Britain.
However, after gold was discovered in the 1850s, thousands of free settlers left the cold, dark industrial towns of Britain to find their place in the sun.
Australia has a population of about sixteen and a half million people. In a country of over seven and a half million square kilometers – the sixth largest in the world – this is a very small population.
At least three cities in the world have larger populations than the whole of Australia.

in the south-east corner of the country between the two state capitals of Sydney and Melbourne.
Over eighty per cent of Australia's inhabitant’s are of British origin and this can be seen in many aspects of Australian life.
English is the national language, cricket is the national game, and they drive on the left.
In recent years, however, most immigrants have come from other European countries such as Italy, Greece and Poland or from Asian countries.
Only about one per cent of the inhabitants are Aborigines.

country and has a wide range of climates from the tropical rain forest of the Northern Territory and northern Queensland to the mild temperate climate of Victoria and Tasmania in the south east.
About two-thirds of the land is desert or semi-desert.

harbour, bridge and opera house, is the largest city it isn't the capital.
Australia is a federal state and, like the United States of America, it has a separate capital city - Canberra - which isn't in any of the states themselves.
The Commonwealth of Australia consists of six states (Western Australia, Queensland, South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania) and two territories (the Northern Territory and the Canberra Capital Territory).
The Head of Government is the Prime Minister but the Head of State is still the British monarch.

Australia's most important sources of income.
More recently, tourism has become important, too.
Tourists come to enjoy Australia's warm climate, to see the unique animals, such as the kangaroo, the koala and the platypus, and to see beautiful natural features like the Great Barrier Reef and the mysterious Ayers Rock.

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show the British origins of the population
four types of climate that Australia has
three things that tourists might see in Sydney
three things that they might see outside Sydney

Exercise 4. Find these numbers in the text. What do they mean?
 
1/2 7.5 million 80% 2/3
 
Exercise 5. Copy and complete these sentences:
Over … Australia's inhabitants are of British origin.
About … the land is desert or semi desert.
Over … the population lives in the south-east corner.

Exercise 6. Discussion points:
What do you think is the most interesting piece of information about Australia on these pages?
Why do you think Australia is called 'the Lucky Country'?

information do they give about these things?
Write one or two sentences about each one:
The Flying Doctor Canberra Animals Sydney

of the geographical line on the map?
Who were the first people in Australia? Where do the natives live there?
What is one of the natives' sacred places?
What does the flag of Australia look like? Why?
Why do people call this unusual continent an "upside-world"?
Where do Australian cold and hot winds blow from?
When was Australia discovered and by whom?
What is Australia's climate?
Name the animals unique to Australia?
What does the koala eat?
Did the aborigines keep any domestic animals?
What animal's name means 'I don't understand' in the aborigines’ language?
When is it colder in Australia: in November or in December?
What is the only living thing on Earth which you can see from space?
How old is the Great Barrier Reef?

16. Is Australia washed by: a) the Atlantic and the Pacific; b) the Indian and the Pacific; c) the Pacific and the Arctic oceans?
17. Who first explored Australia: a) J. Cook; b) Tasman; c) Mickloukho-Maclay
18. What is the state language of Commonwealth of Australia?
19. What island did Tasman explore: a) New Guinea; b) Tasmania; c) New Zealand
20. Koalas eat...?
21. What international sports event took place in Australia aborigines' language?
22. Australia was a colony of which country?
23. Australia was discovered in the: a) 15th; b) 16th; c) 17th; d) 19th century
24. What is the biggest river in Australia?
25. You know that Australia is full of different plants. What’s the main tree? a) acacia; b) palm tree; c) eucalyptus
26. There are a lot of: a) elephants; b) poisonous snakes; c) crocodiles; d) parrots
27. What is the nearest continent to Australia?
28. What animals can you see on the National Emblem of Australia?
29. What city solved the problem of the capital of the 5th continent?
30. Make up as many words as you can out of the word: ABORIGINES.