Australia
​Use all three worksheets together to create a full one-hour lesson - or use them individually as needed.
​Approx 5-10 minutes
​Getting Ready
A small group of visitors is listening to a wildlife park guide. Watch the video and answer the two questions:
1. How tall are some Red Kangaroos?​
2. How fast can a Red Kangaroo hop?
​(Script and answers are found at the bottom of this page.)
​Getting Ready 2
Discuss these questions with a classmate:
1. What is the strangest animal you have ever seen? 
2. Why do you think Australia has so many strange and interesting animals?
​Approx 20 minutes
​VOCABULARY PREVIEW
​AUSTRALIA
​A. Match
1. Uluru
2. kangaroo
3. hot air balloon
4. shorts
5. backpack
6. bucket hat
7. cap
8. grass
​B. Missing words
1. The girl taking a picture is wearing a bucket hat.
2. I wonder how many people are in that hot air balloon.
3. The people in the picture are standing in tall grass.
4. Wow, look! There's a large kangaroo in the bottom-left corner of the picture.
5. Uluru is a large, sandstone rock in Australia. It's a famous landmark.
6. Three of the people in the picture are wearing large backpacks.
7. The people wearing backpacks are also wearing caps on their heads.
8. It must be hot; they are all wearing shorts.
​Approx 20 minutes
​SPOT THE DIFFERENCES
AUSTRALIA 
Activity Notes & Answer Key attached on Page 2
​Approx 20 minutes
WRITING/SPEAKING
​AUSTRALIA
​Activity Notes and Role Play Suggestions attached on Page 2
VIDEO SCRIPT
Park Guide:
​G'day! This is the Red Kangaroo, the largest marsupial in the world. 
Visitor:
​Is it the biggest in Australia?
Park Guide:
​Absolutely! A male can stand six feet tall. 
Visitor:
​Can they run fast?
Park Guide:
​They don't run. They hop. Forty miles an hour. Look at those powerful legs.
​Getting Ready 1 Answers
​1. How tall are some Red Kangaroos?                                         
​ANSWER: six feet tall
​2. How fast can a Red Kangaroo hop?                                         
​ANSWER: forty miles an hour