新人教选修9 Unit3 Australia-Learning about language课件.pptVIP

Learning about language Complete the sentences with words below. 1. The majority of Australians are ________________ from many different ____________________. In fact, the only ________ whose ancestors have lived here for more than 200 hundred years are the __________ people. backgrounds nation citizens tolerance Aboriginal homelands migrants respect citizens / migrants Aboriginal citizens nations / backgrounds Most Australians believe that having people from so many different ________________________________ creates _______ and _________ and makes Australia a stronger _______ and a more interesting place to live. respect nations / backgrounds/ homelands tolerance nation 2. Read the paragraph below, paying particular attention to the underlined words, some of which may be new to you. Try to work out the definitions of these words and write them down in the second column. Then check your answer using an English-English dictionary and write the dictionary definitions in the third column. The first migrants arrived in Australia after a long voyage on small sailing ships. Life was very tough at first because they did not have adequate equipment or food. One of the first things they did was to dig the soil and sow vegetable seeds. However, it wasn’t easy to grow enough food for everyone and in the first few years they faced starvation. Despite all the hardships of those early years, many of the migrants succeeded in building a good life for themselves. In the early days, There were not nearly as many women migrants as there were males, so many of the men remained bachelors. Many dreamed of having a wife who would share their life and work alongside them as they built houses and established farms. Within a reasonably short time some had established large sheep farms and began to export meat and wool back to England. We know a lot about these early years of European settlement because most migr