Dreaming city stories

1

Look at the

vocabulary mindmap below.

a. Find a title for each box.

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2.

3.

4.

5.

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.

2

Look at the picture. What strikes you?

3

a. Watch the video. Be ready to present it.

Workbook p. 38

b. What does it reveal about the way modern Australian cities consider the Indigenous culture?




4

Discuss the

brainstorming questions.

Idiom

Read the

idiom of the week

below. With the photo and the note, guess its meaning and rephrase it.

• 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”

Living out in the sticks

In Australia, “The sticks” (or “Sticksville”) refer to the middle of nowhere, beyond the outskirts of town.

1

• 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.)

2

• "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...)

3

• dingo (n.)
• echidna /ɪˈkɪdnə/ (n.)
• emu /ˈiːmjuː/ / ostrich (n.)
• koala (n.)
• kangaroo / wallaby (n.)
• platypus (n.)
• possum (n.)
• sugar glider (n.)
• wombat (n.)

4

• 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

5

• 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.)