Dreaming city stories
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Unit A
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3 • Neighbourhoods, cities and villages
Dreaming city stories
How can Australian cities be reconciled with the world’s
oldest living culture?
Retrouvez une banque d'audios et de vidéos authentiques en lien avec cette thématique.
Toolbox
Toolbox
- celebrate a culture (exp.)
- remind s.o of sth. (exp.)
- indigenous / native (adj.) / the Aborigines /ˌæbəˈrɪdʒɪniz/ (n.)
- aboriginal art / dot painting (n.)
- contrast (between ... and ...) (n.)
- yananyi → aboriginal word for “travelling”
Get ready!
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a. Find a title for each box.
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b. In groups of four, each of you selects four words from the mind map and finds illustrations of them to create a page of a picture book for children.
c. Go to the map of Australia, and memorise as many places as possible.
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► Workbook p. 38
b. What does it reveal about the way modern Australian cities consider the Indigenous culture?
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PAIR WORK
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IDIOM
Let's learn!
Pictionary
Memorise as many words from the mind map as you can, select one and make it guess to the others by drawing it.
IDIOM of the week!
Living out in the sticks
Living out in the sticks
Living out in the sticks
In Australia, “The sticks” (or “Sticksville”) refer to the middle of nowhere, beyond the outskirts of town.
Brainstorming question
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Brainstorming question
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Australia:
a land of contrast
Australia: a land of contrast
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- swamp in the bush (exp.)
- waterhole / pound (n.)
- billabong (n.)
- moon / sun (n.)
- island / ocean (n.)
- hills ≠ mountains (n.)
- sea coast / desert (n.)
- rain / storm (n.)
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- "Mod'oz" or "fusion cuisine" (exp.) combining British, Aboriginal, Mediterranean and Asian influences.
- outdoor activities (exp.) (camping, hiking, fishing and hunting...)
- barbecues or "barbies" (n.)
- sports (n.) (surfing, Australian football...)
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- dingo (n.)
- echidna /ɪˈkɪdnə/ (n.)
- emu /ˈiːmjuː/ / ostrich (n.)
- koala (n.)
- kangaroo / wallaby (n.)
- platypus (n.)
- possum (n.)
- sugar glider (n.)
- wombat (n.)
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- didgeridoo (n.)
- dot painting (n.)
- fruit gathering (n.)
- rock engraving (n.)
- traditional ceremonies (n.)
- tribes (n.)
- the Dreamtime (n.pr.) = time when the world was created
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- blue‑ringed octopus (n.)
- box jellyfish (n.)
- bull shark (n.)
- deadly snakes, the eastern brown snake, the coastal taipan, the death adder (n.)
- funnel web spider (n.)
- giant bats (n.)
- irukandji jellyfish (n.)
- red back spider (n.)
- saltwater estuary crocodile (n.)