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Wonderland
Topic: Australia
Goal: prove that Australia is extraordinary.
Nature
(Flora and Fauna)
Geographical Position
Life Conditions
The History
Aborigines
Wonders
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Do you know that:
Australia is the biggest
island
It’s the 6th large country in the world
It’s low
and flat
The climate is
hot and dry
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The history of Australia
Aborigines
The first people in Australia
were the Aborigines, who came more than 40,000 years
ago.
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Chinese and Dutch sailors discovered
Australia first.
Abel
Tasman
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Captain James Cook,
the British sailor, when landed there
in 1770 said Australia belonged to Britain.
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The Relief
Two-thirds of Australia, mostly in the centre
and the west, is a desert.
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Outback
flat and hot centre
2/3 of Australia
population:
1000,000
sheep or cattle
stations (farms)
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Uluru
Ayers Rock in the middle of the desert
3 kms long and 348 metres high
600 mln
years old
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The Climate
is sunny and dry.
Australia's longest river, the Murray
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The Great Barrier Reef
the world's longest coral
reef
2,000 kms long
15,000 years old
1,500 kinds
of fish
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Sydney
Sydney is the oldest and
biggest city, with
3.7
million people. It is a busy, modern centre
of business.
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Sydney Opera House looks like sails (1973)
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Melbourne
the second biggest city was the capital of
Australia (from 1901 to 1927).
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Modern cities
are Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. Adelaide has
a famous festival of music, theatre and film every
two years. And in Perth about one-third of the families own a boat.
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Canberra
is the capital of Australia. It means
a 'meeting place‘.
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The Aborigines
British people came to Australia in 1788.
300,000 Aborigines lived in Australia.
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At special times Aborigines came together in big
groups. They painted their bodies, sang, danced and made
music.
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Extraordinary world
If you want to see extraordinary animals,
birds and plants, Australia is a good place to
go.
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Kangarooland
The biggest of the fifty different
kinds is the red kangaroo. They can jump more
than four metres and travel at seventy kilometres an hour. Kangaroos eat grass and leaves and live in groups of about twelve.
in eucalyptus trees, sleeping for eighteen hours, and eating
one kilo of leaves, each day.
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Echidna and platypus
The platypus has a wide bill
like a duck's and a wide flat tail.
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Their babies are born from eggs but drink
milk from their mothers.
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Emu - the 2nd largest bird
800 kinds
of birds
2 metres tall
Runs 50 kms an hour
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Kookaburra’s
cry sounds
like laughing.
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Eucalyptus
can grow to 120 metres
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Flying Doctors
People in the outback can speak to
a doctor by radio and get help by air
.
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Industry and Agriculture
Australia is a rich country thanks
to
sheep, fruit and gold
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Cattle stations
cover one-quarter of Australia.
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Famous Australians
Mel Gibson
Kylie Minogue
Jason
Donovan