All Down Under - cool site with all things traditionally Aussie. Look in the 'Uniquely Australian' section to find resources on events, slang, food, and style. Quizzes and history also available.
English Oz lessons on Jason Renshaw’s (@englishraven) blog
Brisbanism – another good site…I’m assuming there’s a Melbournism and Sydneyism…not sure about Canberraism and Perthism (@elkysmith)
Tiny Texts: Read, listen & learn a little English - interesting news items with reading texts and audio, plus a gap fill worksheet, and usually an accompanying video and links to related articles. Building a nice collection of texts from Australia and New Zealand:
Australian stories (with audio with Australian accents):
Refugees' Australian Stories - a celebration of refugees positive contributions to Australia. Read and or listen to the stories of a group of refugees who have all made a big impact on some sector of Australian society. Inspiration for this page came from Karen MacNamara, and Mike Smith from Brisbane.
Many Stories - One Australia - Harmony Day e-book with stories by Navitas English AMEP Distance Learning students (migrants and refugees).
Australia Network - a great site for learning about Australia as well as learning English. You'll find a ten-part series on life in Australia but there are plenty of other things for students to do here. This could also be filed under culture and lifestyle!
Celebrate the Australian Year - for the Australian teacher-librarian, teacher or parent who wants to add some more celebrations to children's lives.-
OMG so much you could do here. Cultural aspect a given, but also jigsaw reading, paragraph matching, narrative tenses, writing transfer...Yay! Can you put it up Kristin? And let us know if you or your Brissie teacher friends develop any worksheets for it :)
Comments (7)
Kristin Walters said
at 8:55 pm on Feb 11, 2013
Hi - do you think this might be a worthwhile addition to the page? http://www.ras.unimelb.edu.au/Refugees_Australian_Stories/
This came via 2 Brisbane teachers - Mike Smith and Karen Macnamara
Lesley Cioccarelli said
at 9:47 pm on Feb 11, 2013
I think so. Good find!
Sophia Khan said
at 1:17 pm on Jun 6, 2014
Hi Lesley, sorry, this is random! Just testing the thread system… :)
Sophia Khan said
at 1:17 pm on Jun 6, 2014
It's good!
Lesley Cioccarelli said
at 2:17 pm on Jun 6, 2014
Well done :-)
Sophia Khan said
at 9:52 pm on Feb 15, 2013
OMG so much you could do here. Cultural aspect a given, but also jigsaw reading, paragraph matching, narrative tenses, writing transfer...Yay! Can you put it up Kristin? And let us know if you or your Brissie teacher friends develop any worksheets for it :)
Kristin Walters said
at 6:17 pm on Feb 16, 2013
Sure, will do, Sophia - when am at at the office on my bigger computer on Monday. It's a great site, isn't it :-)
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