Австралия — страна наоборот

Австралия — страна наоборот

Она располагается под нами.
Там, очевидно, ходят вверх ногами,
Там наизнанку вывернутый год.
Там расцветают в октябре сады,
Там в январе, а не в июле лето,
Там протекают реки без воды
(Они в пустыне пропадают где-то).
Там в зарослях следы бескрылых птиц,
Там кошкам в пищу достаются змеи,
Рождаются зверята из яиц,
И там собаки лаять не умеют.
Деревья сами лезут из коры,
Там кролики страшней, чем наводненье,
Спасает юг от северной жары,
Столица не имеет населенья.
Австралия — страна наоборот.
Ее исток — на лондонском причале:
Для хищников дорогу расчищали
Изгнанники и каторжный народ.
Австралия — страна наоборот

Галина Усова.

 

ПОЛОЖЕНИЕ

Цель: творческое саморазвитие личности средствами иностранных языков.

Задачи:

- повышение языковой компетенции;

- развитие интереса к английскому языку;

- приобщение к мировым культурным и духовным ценностям;

- активизация деятельности учащихся посредством повышения их самооценки;

- развитие навыков работы со справочными материалами, Интернетом;

- выявление детей, одаренных в области страноведения.

Участники конкурса-олимпиады :

В конкурсе принимают участие учащиеся 5-11 классов.

Порядок проведения конкурса-олимпиады:

Каждая школа предоставляет 5-6 учащихся. Задания конкурса направлены на более глубокое знакомство учащихся с культурой Австралии, ее историей, литературой, искусством и традициями. Организационный взнос за каждого участника – 10 руб.

Место проведения – МОУ СОШ № 4.

Дата проведения – 8 января 2010года 10.00.

Этот список некоторых сайтов по страноведению – «не догма, а руководство к действию»! Помните, что умение работать с источниками дает серьезные преимущества на пути к победе в нашей викторине.

Сайты:

Australia in Wikipedia – история, география, политическая жизнь Австралии

Australian Government. Culture Portal – подробная историческая, культурная, этнографическая и другая информация о стране

Australian Government. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade – много интересных и полезных фактов

Koala Net Australian Slang – словарь австралийского сленга

 

Types of tasks:

1.  Do Word Search Puzzles.

2.  Guess the riddles.

3.  Do word pieces puzzle.

4.  Match the names of states and territories with their capitals.

5.  Complete the top list of facts with the name (e. g. The longest/highest/smallest etc…).

6.  Read the description of the city and guess its name.

7.  Give the Australian to British equivalents of the underlined words.

8.  Fill in the missing letters

9.  Combine the parts into the words.

10.  Read the facts about Australia and say if it is true or false.

11.  Complete the sentences.

12.  What is wrong in the sentences? Correct the facts.

13.  Choose the right answer.

14.  Answer the questions.

15.  Fill in the gaps with the geographical names to complete the poem.

16.  Unscramble the letters to find the words.

17.  Cross out one word that doesn't match in each line.

18.  Match the facts.

19.  Classify the facts in the right column.

20.  Translate the idioms associated with Australian continent.

21.  Read some latest news about Australia and match them with the titles

22.  Solve the rebuses about natural disasters in Australia

23.  What are the Australian to British equivalents of the underlined words

Examples of tasks:

1. Write the Aussie words in the right columns and add your own examples:

 

Jumbuck, bities, bikkie, boozer, joey, bitzer, kindie, servo, uni, hook, cockie, unit, bluey, sanger, cook, strides, snag, polly, bathers, digger, feral, barbie, stickybick.   food

clothes

people

animals

places

“Cities in Aystralia”

.

 

3. Complete the poem about Australia

__ __ , a well known
Australian song
but it is not Australia's anthem,
if you thought that, you're wrong!
Its national anthem's called
____ ____ ____

4. Guess the riddle about the animal in Australia

Scary claws and biting jaws,

We lived long ago with the dinosaurs,

We’ve a big strong tail and skin like mail

and we’re still around today.

5. Food is part of a country's culture. Each country is known for certain foods. Research the foods that are popular in Australia and answer the

questions below.

What are some of the major food products of Australia? Name some popular foods of Australia.

Questions to answer:

1.  What is the official name of the country?

2.  Where is Australia situated?

3.  When was the state formed?

4.  What kind of state is Australia?

5.  What is the capital of Australia?

6.  Who is the Head of the State?

7.  How many states and territories are there in Australia? What are they?

8.  Which is the largest Australian state?

9.  What is the population of Australia? How many nationalities live in Australia?

10.  Which is the official language in Australia? Which is the second most commonly spoken language in Australia?

11.  What colour is the flag of Australia? Which are the national colours?

12.  What is the national flower of Australia?

13.  What are the national holidays in Australia?

14.  What holiday do Australians regard affectionately and patriotically mark with games of ‘two-up’ at the pub and a favourite chewy biscuit?

15.  Who discovered Australia?

16.  Who are the Australian natives?

17.  When did Europeans settle in Australia?

18.  What place turned out to be a curse for those who were unlucky to get there in 1787 in spite of its innocent-sounding name? An old Australian song with the same title describes their despair.

19.  When and where was gold discovered in Australia?

20.  Whose house, built in North Yorkshire, was relocated from England and reassembled in Melbourne brick by brick to commemorate his vast contribution to the exploration of Australia?

21.  Which is the hottest \ coldest month in Australia?

22.  In which season do Australians celebrate Christmas?

23.  What is “outback”?

24.  Where can Australians go skiing?

25.  What stretches for over 5,614 km in the south-east part of Australia?

26.  What forms of natural disaster and sever weather does the continent suffer from?

27.  What is the largest sandstone monolith in the world?

28.  What is the Australia highest peak (the lowest point, longest river, etc)?

29.  What famous rocks in New South Wales share their name with the play by the Russian short-story writer and playwright Anton Chekhov?

30.  Why are these mountains called Blue?

31.  What island, a part of the Commonwealth of Australia, owes its name to the day on which it was discovered?

32.  What English poet is the easternmost point of Australia named after?

33.  What big river has the name often used as a term of affectionate address?

34.  What geographic area is mentioned in the title of a member of the Royal family? In Australia it is accompanied with the words which are the opposites of “old” and “North”.

35.  What animals can be seen on Australia’s coat-of-arms?

36.  What are Australia’s best-known animals?

37.  What does Koala eat? What does the animal’s name mean in Aborigine language?

38.  What mammals lay eggs in Australia?

39.  Can emus fly?

40.  What type of an animal is the kookaburra?

41.  What are the wild dogs that live in Australia called?

42.  What animal is there on the logo of Qantas, the largest in the country and the world’s oldest continuously operating company of its type?

43.  What animals were “invited” because of their very special qualities: endurance, simple tastes, the ability to work hard in extreme conditions? They played an important role in the exploration of remote desert regions of Australia at the end of the 19th/beginning of the 20th century.

44.  What trees did Aboriginals live in, eat and use as a cure for diseases? The most famous one also had a punitive function.

45.  What tree is known as “an exam tree”? Though it is not native to Australia, is it often associated with Queensland.

46.  What is a famous Aborigine musical instrument?

47.  What is the weapon of Australian Aborigines?

48.  What is the Australian national food (clothes, slang)?

49.  What city is called Paris of the Pacific?

50.  What are the capital cities in Australia?

51.  What is the Australia’s sunniest city?

52.  In what cities were the Olympic Games held?

53.  Which Australian city is named after the wife of William VI?

54.  In whose honour did they call the cities of Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane?

55.  The people who live in London are called Londoners, those who live in Liverpool are Liverpudlians, the inhabitants of Moscow are referred to as Muscovites. What do they call those who live in Sydney?

56.  What city was build in the middle of desert to mine precious opals? To escape from the searing summer heat which reaches 45 degrees and the freezing cold winters, people have moved below ground.

57.  What building in Sydney is surrounded by water from its three sides?

58.  What is the main occupation in Australia?

59.  Who wrote the famous Australian song Waltzing Matilda?

60.  On what occasion was Advance Australia Fair first played internationally as the national anthem?

61.  What Australian celebrity has been described by Luciano Pavarotti as the "Voice of the Century"?

62.  Where in Australia were British satellites launched in early 70s?

63.  What service was invented by John Flynn in Australia?

64.  What did President Carter apologize to Australia about?

65.  What people did Kevin Rudd, the Prime Minister of Australia, call the Stolen Generation?

66.  What Australian murderer, arsonist, leader of bank robbers was adored by the poor? A great number of novels, films, documentaries and poems are dedicated to his short but spectacular life.

67.  Who were the first Australian group to sell a million records?

68.  What girl’s name is a type of Australian throwing stick?

69.  Who was the 1st man to fly solo across Australia?

70.  What is Australian money?

71.  What is Coat Hanger?

72.  What Russian poet visited Australia and wrote the poem “Black swan”?

73.  What other famous Russian people visited the country (a traveller, a ballet dancer, a singer, a sailor)?

74.  How do the Australians call their natural countryside?

75.  What classic tale has been read to Australian children for almost one hundred years? It describes the adventures of cute human-like creatures as they compete for a sweet treat that will never end.

76.  Who was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for the contribution to Australian literature? Her best-known poem is My Country.

77.  What hand-sized food is incredibly popular in Australia, being a national pride, the subject of an annual national competition and a bare necessity, especially at sporting?

78.  What footwear originated in Australia has the name derived from the word ‘ugly’?

79.  Why could not THIS competition be held in Australia and had to be “relocated” to Sweden at the 1956 Olympics?

80.  In the US it is 911, in the UK 999, what is its number in Australia?