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Week 8 – Australian History A
1. Listening Activity – Fill in the missing words.
In Britain’s Georgian times
There ………… so many crimes
No time to hang each crook guilty of a felony
Cos …………. no room to jail you
…………. send you to Australia
………… in our new-fangled penal colony
Think that sounds like heaven?
In 1787, it …….. that kind of once in a lifetime trip
First fleet took the journey
Months at sea so churny
Over ……… died while they were on the ship
……. that lived were plucky
Plucky, plucky, plucky
Crammed on board ………… rats and vermin, cockroaches in bed
Stench inside was sicky
Yucky, yucky, icky
Lice not very nice, ……… get them out of my head
Landed Bay of Botany
Convicts’ life ……… rotteny
…………. food and shelter but everything failed
Trees too strong for felling
Stagnant water smelling
A real step back in time in New South Wales
Soil too poor for budding
Huts ……….. up by flooding
Plans for building houses came to sticky ends
The best of all their labours
Attacked …… local natives
And that is when your neighbours ………….. good friends
2. Writing Exercise – Write a paragraph about Australian History. Use present
tense, present progressive tense and past tense.
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