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PAGE PAGE 1 Unit 3 Australia Part One: Teaching Design Period 1: A lesson plan for reading (GLIMPSES OF AUSTRALIA and others) Aims To help students develop their reading ability To help students learn about Australia Procedures ■Warming up by leaning something about Commonwealth of Australia The Commonwealth of Australia is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the worlds smallest continent and a number of islands in the Southern, Indian and Pacific Oceans. Australias neighbouring countries are Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia to the northeast, and New Zealand to the southeast. The continent of Australia has been inhabited for over 40,000 years by Indigenous Australians. After sporadic visits by fishermen from the north and by European explorers and merchants starting in the 17th century, the eastern half of the continent was claimed by the British in 1770 and officially settled as the penal colony of On 1 January 1901, the six colonies federated and the Commonwealth of Australia was formed. Since federation, Australia has maintained a stable liberal democratic political system and remains a Commonwealth Realm. The current population of around 20.4 million is concentrated mainly in the large coastal cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. ■Warming up by looking and saying Look at the photo? What is it? Yes, it is a Tammar Wallaby. The Tammar Wallaby is a small member of the kangaroo family and is the type species for research on kangaroos and marsupials. They are found on offshore islands on the South Australian and Western Australian coast. They are classified as vermin on Kangaroo Tammar Wallabies are also found in New Zealand where they were transported from the South Australian mainland population which has since been driven to extinction by feral cats and foxes. Also known as the Darma Wallaby, the Tammar Wallabys small size (approx 8kg, similar to a