Guess the Country...

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Guess the Country...
(The information in this lesson is not required
for the exam).
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Koala
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Kangaroo
Marsupials
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Emu
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Echidna
Mammals which lay eggs.
Platypus
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Australia
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Australian Cities

• 85 live in cities (very high)
• more than 90 live on the coast
• many families prefer houses to apartments

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Climate and Land

• Centre is desert dry, hot days, cold nights
• North is tropical hot and humid
• South is pleasant

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History

• 40 000 years ago (or more) aboriginal people
  arrive
• 1788 British prisoner colony
• 1900 the states become a country

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Politics
John Howard (Prime Minister)
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Uluru
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Sydney Olympic Games 2000

• Previous Australian Olympics were in Melbourne,
  1956
• Australians felt proud of the Games in Sydney
• I hope Beijing 2008 will be a similar success!

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Waltzing Matilda

• not the national anthem
• words written by an Australian poet, Banjo
  Paterson in 1895

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Swagman
or Matilda
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Billabong
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Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong Under
the shade of a coolibah tree And he sang as he
watched and waited til his billy boiled You'll
come a waltzing Matilda with me Chorus Wholl
come a waltzing Matilda my darling, Who'll come a
waltzing Matilda with me And he sang as he
watched and waited til his billy boiled You'll
come a waltzing Matilda with me
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Down came a jumbuck to drink at the billabong Up
jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee And
he sang as he stowed that jumbuck in his tucker
bag You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me
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Up rode the squatter mounted on his
thoroughbred Up rode the troopers one two
three With that jolly jumbuck you've got in your
tucker bag You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me
squatter land owner thoroughbred a good
horse trooper policeman
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Up jumped the swagman and sprang into the
billabong Youll never take me alive, said
he And his ghost may be heard as youre passing
by that billabong You'll come a waltzing Matilda
with me
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Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong Under
the shade of a coolibah tree And he sang as he
watched and waited til his billy boiled You'll
come a waltzing Matilda with me Chorus Who'll
come a waltzing Matilda my darling Who'll come a
waltzing Matilda with me And he sang as he
watched and waited til his billy boiled You'll
come a waltzing Matilda with me
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Down came a jumbuck to drink at the billabong Up
jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee And
he sang as he stowed that jumbuck in his
tuckerbag You'll come a waltzing Matilda with
me Chorus Who'll come a waltzing Matilda my
darling Who'll come a waltzing Matilda with
me And he sang as he stowed that jumbuck in his
tuckerbag You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me
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Up rode the squatter mounted on his
thorougbred Up rode the troopers one two
three With that jolly jumbuck youve got in your
tuckerbag You'll come a waltzing Matilda with
me Chorus Who'll come a waltzing Matilda my
darling Who'll come a waltzing Matilda with
me With that jolly jumbuck youve got in your
tuckerbag You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me
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Up jumped the swagman and sprang into the
billabong Youll never take me alive, said
he And his ghost may be heard as youre passing
by that billabong You'll come a waltzing Matilda
with me
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Who'll come a waltzing Matilda my darling Who'll
come a waltzing Matilda with me And his ghost may
be heard as your passing by that billabong You'll
come a waltzing Matilda with me Youll come a
waltzing Matilda with me