How to compare Sweden to Australia

Here are a few areas you can think about when comparing Australia to Sweden:

• Climate
• Size and population
• Traditions
• School system
• Food
• Government
• People
  
• Houses/buildings
• Jobs
• History
• Geography
• Religon

Australian traditional days

• Christmas Day 25 December every year 
• Boxing Day, after Christmas Day,
• Australia Day, 26 January, is the day Australians celebrate the founding of the first European settlement in Australia in 1788.
• Anzac Day, 25 April, the day Australian soldiers landed at Gallipoli in Turkey in 1915 during WWI. This day is in memory of those who fought for Australia and those who lost their lives in war. The day has ceremonies, the laying of wreaths and military parades.
• Melbourne Cup Day, on the first Tuesday of November each year, is a public holiday Melbourne. The Melbourne Cup is a world-famous horse race which brings Australia almost to a standstill. For a few minutes, most people stop to watch the race on television.

Useful links

• http://www.audleytravel.com/destinations/australasia/australia/country-guides/australia-for-the-first-time-visitor.aspx
• http://www.australia.com
• http://www.1yearoff.com.au
• http://www.mintur.se/resmal/oceanien/australien

My trip to Australia

You are going on holiday to Australia and are going to visit three different places in this fascinating country. During your holiday your job is to share your experiences with everyone else through your very own travel blog. In your blog you will write and share pictures, but you have also decided to post a video diary. This is what you need to think about before and during this assignment:

• Plan your journey from Sweden to Australia; When are you leaving? How long ia the flight? Do you have to make any stop overs?
• Where do you want to go and what would you like to experience? Cities, the outback, beaches, adventures, shopping, museums etc.?
• Spend a day with an Australian family: How do they live their lives? What do they eat? Activities and sports? Traditions? Differences between how they live and how you live?
• Be creative in writing and use a lot of pictures (but legal pictures - pictures you are allowed to share with others)
• If you need help creating your blog, Roberto will be available after lunch on Tuesday 26 November. You can of course ask other students to help you as well.

Have a nice stay in Australia!

Possessive Pronouns

The grammar part of our project is going to be about the possessive pronouns. Here below you can read about it, but you can also find this information in your text book (the grammar pages).

We use possessive pronouns to refer to a specific person/people or thing/things belonging to a person/people (and sometimes belonging to an animal/animals or thing/things).

We use possessive pronouns depending on:

• number: singular (eg: mine) or plural (eg: ours)
• person: 1st person (eg: mine), 2nd person (eg: yours) or 3rd person (eg: his)
• gender: male (his), female (hers)

Below are the possessive pronouns, followed by some examples. Notice that each possessive pronoun can:

• be subject or object
• refer to singular or plural 

number	person	gender (of "owner")	possessive pronouns
singular	1st	male/female	mine
	2nd	male/female	yours
	3rd	male	his
		female	hers
plural	1st	male/female	ours
	2nd	male/female	yours
	3rd	male/female/neuter	theirs

• Look at these pictures. Mine is the big one. (subject = My picture)
• I like your flowers. Do you like mine? (object = my flowers)
• I looked everywhere for your key. I found John's key but I couldn't find yours. (object = your key)
• My flowers are dying. Yours are lovely. (subject = Your flowers)
• All the essays were good but his was the best. (subject = his essay)
• John found his passport but Mary couldn't find hers. (object = her passport)
• John found his clothes but Mary couldn't find hers. (object = her clothes)
• Here is your car. Ours is over there, where we left it. (subject = Our car)
• Your photos are good. Ours are terrible. (subject = Our photos)
• Each couple's books are colour-coded. Yours are red. (subject = Your books)
• I don't like this family's garden but I like yours. (object = your garden)
• These aren't John and Mary's children. Theirs have black hair. (subject = Their children)
• John and Mary don't like your car. Do you like theirs? (object = their car)

Australia - down under

Have you decided which places in Australia you can visit on your pretend trip? Here´s a tourist information video you can watch to get some inspiration. Find more clips on youtube on your own!

AUSTRALIA

Our next project is going to be about the english speaking country of Australia. This is the Time frame for the project with information about homework and important dates:

Week 45 (7/8 november)

• Introduction – What do you know about Australia?
• Text – ”Botany Bay” + new words
• Textwork – Exercise 9,10 and 11
• HOMEWORK; Read ”Botany bay” and learn the new words

Week 46 (14/15 november)

• Homework test
• Listening comprehension – Facts about Australia (ex. 12)
• Geography quiz – exercise 13, 15 and 16
• GRAMMAR; Possessive pronouns

Week 47 (21 november)

• Homework test
• The map of Australia
• YOUR ASSIGNMENT; create your own travelblog and write about your trip to Australia

Week 48 (28/29 november)

Work on your travel blog – remember to record av videoblog as well!

Week 49 (5/6 december)

Finish your blog! Last day!