Unit 11 - Australian stories

Good afternoon!

Today we looked into secret Australian stories. I wanted to put here the text, the questions and the video, so you can study the new vocabulary. Enjoy!

When you were small your parents told you tales before you went to sleep. You enjoyed nice dreams and learned how to be brave. Now you read books and watch films. These adventures teach you new things and make you smarter.

Other people have their stories, books and films. But Australian aboriginal people are quite different. They don't have T.V. or books, but they have a lot of perfect stories they tell their children. These stories are called “The Dreamtime”.

The Dreamtime stories are very, very old. Children and parents enjoy them and have been telling them for a very long time. When an adult told a story to a child, the child told it to others and everybody learned it.

Dreamtime stories are full of magic and wisdom. Their character are hunters, animals and nature. With stories, children learn about history, their country, like you do in school. They also learn how to hunt, how to find water and how to travel with the help of the stars. A fortune in wisdom.

The Dreamtime stories were secret, but not anymore. Today you can read some of them in books, listen to them in records or watch them in video.

Answer the questions with "Yes" or "No":

• Aboriginal people from Australia have their own stories. [Answer]
  Yes.
• The Dreamtime stories are very old. [Answer]
  Yes.
• Aboriginal Australian children learn stories from books. [Answer]
  No. (They are told the stories from their elders).
• Dreamtime stories teach children maths and music. [Answer]
  No.
• Dreamtime stories were secret. [Answer]
  Yes.

Answer the questions:

• Which country are aboriginal people in the text from? [Answer]
  The aboriginal peope are from Australia.
• What two things aboriginal stories are full of? [Answer]
  Aboriginal stories are full of magic and wisdom.
• What does an aboriginal child when a story is told? [Answer]
  The child tells the story to other children.

And of course, the text and video

It was a [Adjective]

beautiful

day.
Cloudskipper decided to visit Cloudy, his wise old [Noun]

friend

.
He had brought him a special gift.
A [Noun]

dance

from Brolly Bird.
Cloudy [Verb]

was

delighted!
His grin created a [Noun]

rainbow

!.
The friends climbed aboard.
Danced!
Using the rainbow helter skelter [Pronoun]

they

slid down to the ground.
So whenever you see a rainbow...
...you know a cloud is grinning watching a [Noun]

bird

dance.
If you are [Adjective]

lucky

you may see them sliding down.

Great stories, right?