1. AUSTRALIA

2. What comes to your mind…..? (about Australia)
A city
An activity
A building
An animal
A famous person
A reptile
A place/sight
A musical instrument

4. What do you know about AUSTRALIA? (basic geographical facts)
the smallest continent
the sixth largest country
situated on the southern hemisphere
between the Indian Ocean in the west and the Pacific Ocean in the east
(area: 7,69mil. square kilometres)

6. AUSTRALIA NAMES the official name is the Commonwealth of Australia
the first name of the land was New Holland
nicknames are Oz, Down Under
Australians call it the “Lucky Country“

7. AUSTRALIA - what do you know?
Who is the head of state?
A) Australian president B) Elizabeth II
What’s the currency?
A) Australian dollar B) Australian pound
What is the largest city?
A) Canberra B)Sydney
Which city isn’t located in Australia?
Melbourne , Brisbane, Auckland, Adelaide, Hobart, Darwin
What’s the official language?
A) English B) Australian

8. POLITICAL SYSTEM a federal state consisting of 6 states:
Western Australia (Perth) Queensland (Brisbane)
New South Wales (Sydney) Victoria (Melbourne)
South Australia (Adelaide) Tasmania (Hobart)
2 territories:
Northern Territory (Darwin)
Australian Capital Territory (Canberra)

10. Political system federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy
the head of state – Queen Elizabeth II, Australian queen
represented by the Governor General (Sir Peter Cosgrove)
the head of government – prime minister (Scott Morrison)

11. Flag a dark blue field with:
a British Union Jack in the upper left corner
a large seven-pointed white star symbolizing its
states and territories
five white stars representing the constellation of the Southern Cross

12. GEOGRAPHY - landscape
mostly flat, grasslands, bushes

13. GEOGRAPHY - landscape
the Great Sandy Desert

14. GEOGRAPHY - landscape
the Great Victoria Desert

15. GEOGRAPHY - landscape
semi-deserts

16. GEOGRAPHY - landscape mountain ranges situated along the eastern coast
highest peak of the land:
Mount Kosciuczko (2,228m - in the Snowy Mountains, part of the Australian Alps)

17. GEOGRAPHY - landscape
wonderful coast and beaches

20. Bondi Beach is one the most popular beaches in Australia
located near the City of Sydney

21. GREAT BARRIER REEF
world´s longest coral reef (over 2300 km long)

22. AUSTRALIA – rivers and lakes
land is dry
major rivers: the Darling, the Murray in the south-west
lakes: Lake Eyre, Lake Torrens, Lake Mackenzie
the River Darling

23. GEOGRAPHY - landscape
lowest point: Lake Eyre (16 metres below the sea level)

24. The Outback the vast, remote, dry interior of Australia
full of wildlife (red kangaroos and dingoes - hide in bushes to rest and keep cool during the heat of the day)

26. Royal Flying Doctor Service
one of the largest aeromedical organisations in the world
provides emergency and primary health care services for those living in the Outback
started in 1928
(as Aerial Medical Service)

27. School of the Air
correspondence schools for the primary and early secondary education of children in remote and outback Australia
originally the teachers communicated with the children via radio, now replaced by the Internet
started in 1951

28. CLIMATE varied tropical (north) – wet and hot
continental (interieor) - hot and dry (desert)
sub-tropical and temperate (the rest) – warm
summers and mild
winters

29. POPULATION of Australia
about 23,8 million inhabitants
the density of populatin is very low, most of western and central parts are uninhabited
half of the population live in the south-east corner of the country between Sydney and Melbourne
80% of the population
is of British origin

30. ABORIGINES
original people of Australia (606, 000 today, 2,7% of Australian population)
originally - hunters using their boomerangs for hunting animals
they were persecuted, frightened away from their land or killed

32. LIFESTYLE drive on the left favourite sports:
windsurfing rugby water sports
horse racing tennis
beach volleyball cricket
love outdoor activities – barbecue
in isolated places children study at home and use a radio to talk to their teachers (School of
the Air, the Outback)
if someone is ill the flying doctor
will visit them by plane (Royal
Flying Doctor Service)

33. AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH differs from British English in vocabulary
matilda sheep
station Briton
jumbuck farm
Pom sleeping bag
use words made by
shortening:
Aussie footy barbie ta
postie Oz
Australian
football
barbecue
thank you
postman
Australia

34. Natural wonders - ULURU

35. ULURU / Ayers Rock
a huge red sandstone rock rising 348 metres above the desert floor, in central Australia, south-west from Alice Springs, 600 mil. years old
many springs, waterholes, rock caves
and ancient paintings
the surface is covered with a crust
rich in iron and silicon and it
changes colours from yellow
to gold, red, purple during the
day
Uluru – an Aboriginal name
Ayers Rock – an English name

36. WAVE ROCK (Western Australia)
part of Hyden Wildlife Park – nature reserve
rock in the shape of a perfect wave (14m high)

37. DEVIL´S MARBLES (Northern Territory)
huge, mysterious-looking round stones
spiritual significance to the Aboriginies

38. AUSTRALIA - animals famous for its animals
they are unique, they don´t live anywhere else in the world but in Australia
they are dangerous, poisonous, they can attack people and kill them

40. The Koala a tree climbing marsupial
looking more like a children´s toy than a real animal
feeding on the eucalyptus leaves

41. Kangaroo marsupial, female has a pouch for carrying its young
large, powerful hind legs, large feet adapted for leaping,
a long muscular tail for balance,
and a small head

42. The Emu
a large flightless bird
it can run very well

43. The platypus the world´s strangest animal
has a bill and webbed feet like a duck
it lays eggs like a hen
its youngs suckle milk like mammals
it lives in fresh water
it´s a marsupial

44. The tasmanian devil
makes terrible noise

45. Wombat

46. Dingo – a wild dog
Kiwi

47. Dangerous animals
spiders
snakes
sharks
crocodiles
Black widow

48. The sheep not original animal, brought there by settlers
Australia has ten times more sheep than people
big sheep farms are called stations
Australia is the greatest world´s producer of wool (25%)

49. THE SHEEP STATION

50. HISTORY of Australia discovered by the Dutch navigator Abel Tasman
in 1642
the coast was explored by the British Captain James Cook
he landed in Botany Bay near Sydney in 1770
1st British settlement – Port Jackson

51. HISTORY of Australia
the settlement of Australia started in 1788 with arrival of about 1,000 colonists from Britain (about 750 of them were convict) => a British colony was founded (a penal colony)
gold discovered in the middle of 19th century (it increased the number of immigrants from Europe)
in Commonwealth of Australia established (under a British dominion)