In the News

VPAU 560: Explore a current issue of significance in Australia / Explore a current issue of of international significance
VPAU505.4: Write a descriptive or narrative text



SPEAKING/WRITING: VPAU560.1: National News (video)

Watch this video in pairs and answer the questions together

1.What is the video about?
2.Who are the two men?
3.What is the Coalition?
4.What is the ALP?
5.What is a poll?
6.Who is the preferred Prime Minister?
7.What percentage of people in the poll said they would vote for the ALP?
8. What was said about women?

 LISTENING: VPAU560.2: International News (audio)
 
LISTENING: Download and print this listening comprehension quiz . Play the audio.

READING: Read the story about the Panda (and check your answers from the listening quiz)

VOCABULARY: Parts of a Newspaper

Last week we played games with the newspaper and learnt to identify parts of the newspaper.

Download this matching exercise, print and check your answers as a class or with a friend.



CLASS DISCUSSION: VIDEO

What is this video about? Is it a national story or an international story?

1) Look at these two graphics. Compare them and discuss.
2) How many arrivals by boat were there in Australia in 2013?





HOMEWORK: 

Find out some more about the issue of Asylum seekers. Watch TV, listen to radio, do an internet search and read a newspaper for the next week. Report your research to the class.

GRAMMAR : IF / IF NOT vs. UNLESS

Watch the video and complete the exercises below



Exercise 1

Exercise 2

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Australian History : Refugees

VPAM 549.4, VPAU 500.1, VPAU 496.3, VPAU 493.3, VPAU 498.1

The Vietnamese started to arrive in Australia after the Vietnam War (1975). Many came in boats on dangerous voyages. They ran away from a bad government and poverty from the war. They wanted a new life ...

Click here to read the full text and download a simple dictation


Here is the dictation ...




REFUGEES (British Council)

Here is a listening /reading exercise (difficult)about Refugees with text and task.

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Can you mark the countries from the story about refugees?


1) Vietnam

2) Cambodia

3) Laos

4) China

5) Afghanistan

6) Iran

7) Iraq

8) Sri Lanka

Do you know any others ...

9) _________

10)_________

Print out the map of Asia and the Middle East here


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Listening: Life in a New Country



1) Watch the video

2) Print this comprehension sheet


3) Watch other young refugees talking about their new lives in the UK.

Edmund (Uganda)


Kamran (Iran)


Exercise 2: You be the teacher! Make a comprehension sheet about Edmund from Uganda or Kamran from Iran

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African Refugees in Australia ... where we come from, who we are




Question: How many hours do the women spend collecting water?

Vocabulary: a well / collect / fetch / round trip


Understanding Graphs & Charts (Talking statistics)

Look at the following graphs about the Somali, Ethiopian and Sudanese communities in Australia.

Somali Community

Ethiopian Community

Sudanese Community

How many Somalis / Ethiopians / Sudanese were there in 1991 and 2006?

What was the rate of increase?

What would you say about the graphs?

Find out more about one of these communities on the museum victoria website.

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