2016-2017学年高中英语 Unit 3 Australia课件 新人教选修9.pptVIP

Discovering Australia On May 13,1787，a fleet of English ships set sail for Australia with about 750 people.These men and women were not ordinary passengers.They were convicts being sent to Australia as punishment for their crimes. Laws in England during this period were very harsh，and people were punished severely for even the smallest crimes.A man could be sentenced to death for hunting on another man’s property or he could be put to death for chopping down someone else’s tree.For many other crimes，the punishment was “transportation”．The guilty person was shipped to a distant land where he wa