Module 3 My First Ride on a Train

Western Australia Northern Territory South Australia New South Wales Queensland Victoria

( 1 ) ( 2 ) ( 3 ) ( 4 ) ( 5 ) ( 6 ) 1. Which is Australia’s flag?

What do you know about Australia? Australia was discovered about 53, 000 years ago. It is possible that the first people crossed into Australia from Asia on great land bridge when the water above of the oceans was lower. In 1901, the Commonwealth of Australia was formed, with Canberra as its capital. English is its official language. Its flag shows the UK flag and a large star with seven points. Australia is famous for its animals such as kangaroos and koalas.

Capital city-- Canberra

Sydney Melbourne

The Great Barrier Beef

Kangaroos---large animals jump about on two legs carrying their young in a stomach pocket

Australian native dog --- Dingo

Koala -bears climbing trees

The duck-billed platypus is an egg-laying mammal.

What Australian animals do you know about?

Listen to the tape and choose the main idea of this passage. a child visiting her grandmother a train ride to Sydney taking the train to Australia traveling to the central part of Australia

How many parts can we divide the passage into? What is each about? Paragraph 1 She tells when and where their travel took place. Paragraphs 2-3 She describes the scenery of all the journey. Three parts.

Paragraphs 4-6 She explains the origin of the Ghan train and the means of transport for traveling a long distance in the past.

Listen and put them in the right order. Camels were trained to carry supplies back from the central part. Camels were shot because of the new railway line built by the government. They bought camels from Afghanistan. Australians needed a way to the central country. They tried riding horses, but failed

Read the passage again carefully and answer the questions. 1. Did Alice travel on the train a long time ago? 2. Was her destination on the coast of Australia? No. She travelled on the train recently. No, it was Alice Springs in the centre of Australia.

3. Was the scenery the same during the whole journey? 4. Did she study while she was on the train? No. At first there were fields, and then it was the desert. Yes. She studied Chinese.

5. Did the Australians use horses to travel to the central part of the country? 6. Do they still use camels to deliver goods? Yes, they did so at first, but the horses didn’t like the hot weather. No. They use the train now.

Multiple choices 1.From the passage, we know that Alice Thompson is from_______. A China B Afghan C Australia D Austria C

2. The sentence “And what a ride!” in the first paragraph means that______. A the writer enjoyed the long journey B the writer was made too tired by the long ride C it was a long and dangerous journey D he had nothing to see about but desert A

3. Before the 1920s,_________. A Australians couldn’t travel to the middle of the country B Australians didn’t dare to travel in the endless desert C Australians could only travel to the middle of the country by riding horses D Camels played an important part in traveling through the desert D

4.The whole passage mainly tells us______. A the importance of the desert in Australia B horses are one of no use in traveling in desert C it’s cruel to kill thousands of camels D the transport to the middle of Australia D

5. From this passage, we can conclude that_______. A the Ghan train plays an important part in life of middle areas of Australia B Camels are no longer seen in Australia C it was the Afghans that made the Ghan train D Australians used to ride horses to travel to the middle of Australia A