Australian Stories What do you know about Australia? Do you know any Australian animals? Have you ever heard an Australian story? This website asks you to read two Australian stories, and do some exercises to help understand them.

 

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Do you know what a Kangaroo is? Have you ever heard of a wombat?

What about a didgeridoo?

Open a new document in Word, and, together, write down what you know about these three things. Click the links above if you need help, and remember to save it when you're finished!

• Talk to your partner, and choose one of these stories each:
  • How the Kangaroo Got its tail
  • The Story of the Didgeridoo

• Do you know all about your story? Read it again, and make sure you understand it, and know it.

Tell you partner the story you read. Don't read it - tell it in your own words. Try not to look!

• Do you know both stories now? Click on the exercise for your partner's story:
• How the Kangaroo Got His Tail Exercise
• The story of the Didgeridoo Exercise

Choose the right sentence to make the whole story. Ask your partner if you need help!

• How much do you know about kangaroos, wombats, didgeridoos and Australia now?

Open the word document you wrote at the beginning. What can you add to it?

• What did you think of the stories? Did you like them? Do you want to know more now?
• Write about it on the Class Blog!

Finished? Congratulations! If you have extra time, try one of these exercises too! Click on the one for the story you read first, and try to guess all the words without looking at the story. How the Kangaroo Got His Tail The Story of the Didgeridoo And here is another Kangaroo Video, just for fun! Can you hear the didgeridoo too?

CREDITS:

Clip-Art from UVic's Language Teaching Clipart Library and Clip Art Review

Exercises made with Hot Potatoes from Half Baked Software, and Rhubarb and Sequitor from Tex Toys