Australia Training April 27

1. Warm up

• What is your all-time favorite movie?
• What is your favorite movie?
• Are there any kinds of movies you dislike?
  • If so, what kinds?
  • Why do you dislike them?
• Do you like to watch horror movies?
• Do you prefer fiction or nonfiction movies?
• Do you usually watch movies at home or at a movie theater?
• Have you ever seen the same movie more than once?
  • If yes, name it (or them).
• Have you ever seen ___? (Insert the name of a movie.)
• How often do you go to movies?
• How often do you rent videos?
• If a book has been made into a movie, which do you prefer to do first, see the movie or read the book? Why?
• What is the best movie you have ever seen?
  • Who was in it?
  • Why did you like it?
  • Who was the director?
• What is the scariest movies you have ever seen?
  • What's the funniest?
  • What's the most romantic?
• What is the worst movie you've ever seen?
• What was the last movie you saw?
  • Was it good?
  • Who did you see it with?
• Which do you like better, action movies or comedy movies?
• What movie star would you most like to meet?
• Who is your favorite actor or actress?
• What do you think of reality shows?
• Do you think that films can be educational?
• Is there a movie you could watch over and over again?
• Who's your favorite director?
• How much does it cost to see a movie in Taiwan?
• What's one of your favorite movies?
  • What kind of movie is it?
  • Who's in it?
  • Who directed it?
  • Why do you like it?
  • When did it come out?
  • Where was it filmed?
  • How many times have you seen it?
  • Would you recommend it? Why?
• Do you think movies have been developing technology or technology has been developing movies?
• Are addicted to watching movies?
• Do you think action movies are bad for children?
• Which do you prefer, to watch movies or to read books?
• How much money do you spend when you go to movies?
• What do you prefer, animated movies or real movies?
• What is your favorite movie soundtrack?
• Do you think historical movies are educational?
• Do you like documentaries?
• Who is your favorite movie hero?
• What do you think about comic book movies?
• Can you remember the name of the first movie you saw that made you cry?
• What is your favorite classic movie?
• Do you ever download movies?
• Do you like foreign films that are dubbed in your mother tongue or do you like watching the film in its original form?
• Do you think there should be more movies made in your country?
• What is something that you have never seen happen in a movie?
• What things happen too often in movies?
• What is the name of a boring movie you have seen. Is there a way to make it better?
• Which two movie stars would you like to have for your parents?
• If a movie star wanted to marry you, would you divorce your spouse?
• If you could be a movie bad guy, which one would you be?
• Which famous person would you like to have for a best friend?
• How often would you go to the movie theater if you always had free tickets?
• Which actor or actress would be you in a movie about your life?
• Do you want your children to be actors or actresses?
• Do you think there is too much nudity in movies, or not enough?
• Do you think there is too much violence in movies? Does it affect children?
• Would you rather be in a movie, or be given $500.000?
• Would you like to be in a television drama?
• What kind of character would you like to play in a television drama?
• Would you be willing to be on a TV show in only your underwear
• If someone were to make a movie about your life, what would you
• want included? Include AT LEAST three points !
• Have you ever fallen asleep in the middle of a film? Why?
• Do you remember which one it was?
• Do you choose a film for the plot/story or the actors?
• Do you usually choose which films to watch?

2. Review -- vocab, history, ideas

retrieval practice -- words and history


3. Songs

Waltzing Maltida
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SewUqqZbQxY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltzing_Matilda

Wild Rover No More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_4KboYi40I

Botany Bay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEYseM_R6Hk

Click go the shears
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFYD-W2VHpg

Brisbane Ladies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzIawaJ1C2k

Australian Aboriginal Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1pDPuetPdg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didgeridoo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jEySIFBfwQ

4. Poems

Judith Wright "the conscience of Australia"
https://compendium.vuduc.org/poem15.html

AD Hope
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8509645-Australia-by-A-D-Hope

Bill Scott
https://ozpoemaday.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/thunderbolt-by-bill-scott/


Noonuccal (aboriginal poet)


"Gifts"
‘I will bring you love’, said the young lover,
‘A glad light to dance in your dark eye.
Pendants I will bring of the white bone,
And gay parrot feathers to deck your hair.’

But she only shook her head.

‘I will put a child in your arms,’ he said,
‘Will be a great headman, great rain-maker.
I will make remembered songs about you 
That all the tribes in all the wandering camps
Will sing forever.’

But she was not impressed.

‘I will bring you the still moonlight on the lagoon,
And steal for you the singing of all the birds;
I will bring the stars of heaven to you,
And put the bright rainbow into your hand.’

‘No’, she said, ‘bring me tree-grubs

5. Australian rock and pop stars

Billy Thorpe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNBb7SUqSzg

Kylie Minogue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJDNaxaIU6I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld1wQXxO1Ow (w /lyrics)

Olivia Newton-John
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLi8fTlDEag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--I8NguuJho (w /lyrics)

Nick Cave (and the Bad Seeds)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDpnjE1LUvE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO9sGiVphYg (w /lyrics)

6. Comedians
Claire Hooper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb1jUZPlyEw


7. Movies
Mad Max Series
2. The Road Warrior
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hUrcGCQV1g

4. Fury Road
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRfAtCRXzps

Crocodile Dundee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POJtaO2xB_o

Breaker Morant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj8N8Nvv6ys


8. Australian Rules Football
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMZYZcoAcU0


9. Environment

Feral Cat Issue
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/magazine/australia-cat-killing.html

Henbury Craters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henbury_Meteorites_Conservation_Reserve

Global Warming
https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/how-climate-change-affecting-australia

Australia Training: April 20

MORNING

1. Conversation warmup/review from last time

INTERVIEW/DIALOGUE

Do you like to eat? Why or why not?

Are there any foods that you wouldn't eat as a child that you eat now?

Are you a vegetarian?

Are you a good cook? What food do you cook the most often? What is the last meal you cooked for someone else?

Are you concerned about your daily calorie intake when choosing something to eat?

Do you read the nutritional information on the foods you buy?

At what times do you usually eat your meals?

Breakfast?

Lunch?

Dinner?

Do you eat breakfast every day?

Did you eat lunch today?

Do you drink tea or coffee every day?

Do you eat rice every day?

Do you have a favorite cafe? If so, where is it? Why do you like it?

How often do you go out for a drink? What's your favorite drink?

Do you often eat out?

Do you like to try new food and drinks? Do you like Thai food? Spanish food? Vietnamese food? Japanese? American food? French food? Italian food? Indian? What’s your favorite foreign cuisine?

Do you like deep fried food?

Do you like to eat at fast food restaurants?

Do you like to eat junk food?

Do you like to eat some desserts after dinner?

How often do you eat seafood? What’s your favorite?

Do you prefer to eat at a restaurant or at home?

Do you think a vegetarian diet is better than a diet that includes meat? Why?

Do you think fast food, soda and sweets should be sold in school cafeterias?

Have you ever been a diet? If so, how long did you stay on it?

Why do you think most diets fail?

When you are sad, do you eat more? What do you eat when you are sad?

How often do you go shopping for food?

What is the food that you miss most from home?

What food do you hate? Why do you hate it?

What foods do you love?

What foods have you tasted which you will never forget for the rest of your life?

What fruit do you eat the most often?

What is the most expensive restaurant that you have ever been to? What did you eat there?

What is the most unusual thing you've ever eaten. Did it taste good or bad?

What kind of food do you eat between meals?

What restaurant in this city do you recommend? Why is it a good place? About how much does a meal cost?

2. Geography

From textbook...

3. Indigenous History

Basic Introduction
Slideshow
Art Introduction
Rock paintings

4. Listening
Readings
Slang II

5. Dialogues


6. Current Issues
The Great Australian China Debate
Things Australians feel are important
Taiwan-Australia Relationship



1. Conversation/Warm up/Review

Do you make friends easily?

Have you made any friends over the Internet?

How often do you write to them?

Have you ever met them in person?

Can you describe one of your closest friends.

What do you usually do with your friends?

What is the longest friendship that you have had?

What factors may result in the breakdown of a good friendship?

Do you have any childhood friendships that are still strong today? Tell us about them.

Do you have any long distance friends?

How do you keep in touch with your long-distance friends?

How often do you see your long-distance friends?

Do you think it is a good idea to borrow money from a friend? Why or why not?

Has a friend ever let you down?

How are your friendships different now than they were when you were a child?

How do you maintain a good friendship?

How do you make new friends?

How many people do you consider your "best friends?"

Do you have any friends from a different generation than you? Describe one.

There is a saying "To have a good friend, you need to be a good friend."

How can you be a good friend?

What is a friend?

What is a best friend?

What makes friends different from family?

What qualities do you think are important in a friend?

What things should friends never do?

Why do you like your best friend?

What are some things you like about your best friend?

Where is a good place to meet new friends?

Where is a good place to meet a new boyfriend/girlfriend?

Do you think it is possible to have a best friend of the opposite sex without becoming a girlfriend or boyfriend?

Do you think it would be possible for you still be friends with an ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend?

There is a proverb that says, "A friend in need is a friend indeed." Do you agree?

Do you believe that there is an end to any true friendships?

Do you believe your parents should be your friends?

What do you do if you receive a friend's call but you forgot his/her name?

Friendship is the most important relationship. Do you agree? Why? Why not?

What do you like best about your best friend(s)?

What are some ways your best friend has influenced your life in a positive way?

How close do you get to your friends?

Why do you need a friend?

What do you do when you have a misunderstanding with your friend?

Do you trust all of your friends? Why?

What is the best time for making new friends?

What was your best friendship?

Are you still friends with him or her?

What life lessons did you learn from this relationship?

What qualities do you appreciate in your friends? What makes someone special or best friend?

Why are friendships important for you? Do you still maintain friendships from the past?

How long have you known your best friend? Where did you meet and what did you have in common?

What are some good opportunities to meet new people?

How can you get to better know a person?

What is the relationship between love and friendship?

Who is the most interesting person you have ever met?

Do you think famous people are happier than ordinary people? Why?

What type of people do you get along with best?

What quality do you admire most in people and which one do you find the most objectionable?

What behavior of others hurts you most? When you have upset someone by your actions, what do you try to do?

What do you consider to be your good and bad qualities?

What qualities help you to have good relationships with others?

What traits or actions make an interpersonal conflict worse?

Are relationships among people better or worse than a few years ago? Why? Give some examples.

Do you think that dysfunctional family life contributes to worsening relationships in society?

Is getting along with others a natural ability from birth or does it have to be learnt?

How important is forgiveness in human relationships?

What are friends for?

Can you be friends with your student if you are a teacher?

To what extent can you be friends with your child?

What was your best friendship? Are you still friends with him or her? What life lessons did you learn from this relationship?

Do you tell your best friend everything?

Do you have a close group of friends?

What do you usually do together

Is it easy for you to make friends?

Talk about friends you've made in this country.

Are you good friends with your family members?

Do you fight with your friends?

How often do you talk with your friends?

What is the difference between friendship and 'kinship' (blood relatives)?

Do you have different groups of friends who never meet one another?

Are you a different 'self' with each group?

Do you think these groups would get along if you

introduced them to one another?

Would you want these friends to mix, or do you get something different from each set of relationships?

There is a saying that "to lose a friend you need to start sharing a flat with him/her". Do you agree? Why/Why not?

What would you do if your best friend asked you out on a date?

Do you think you can find eternal friendships through the internet?

2. History
History of Australia PPT


3. Listening
Easy English, Street
Teacher review: 50 slang words


4. Geography
From textbook


5. Dialogue



6. Issue

Australia Training: April 13

Morning

1. Introduction, class introduction

2. Conversation

At what age do most people in your country get married?

At what age do you want to get married?

Do women usually work after getting married in your country?

Are any of your siblings married? Do you get along with your in-laws?

Do you know anyone who has had an arranged marriage?

Do you think arranged marriages are a good idea? Why or why not?

Do you know someone who has gotten a divorce?

Do you know the difference between love and like?

Can you still love your partner and not like him/her?

Do you think a boy should pay for everything on a date?

Do you think getting married means giving up freedom?

Do you think if you get married that you will change?

Do you think it is better to be single or to be married?

Do you think it is okay for a couple to live together before getting married? Why or Why not?

Do you think it is okay to marry someone of a different race?

Do you think it is okay to marry someone with a different religion?

Do you think it's OK for a man to have two wives?

Do you think it's OK for a wife to have two husbands?

Do you think it's okay for a man to have a mistress?

Do you think it's okay for a man to hit his wife?

Do you think love is necessary to have a good marriage?

Do you think marriage is necessary?

Do you think marriages based on love are more successful than arranged marriages?

Do you think marriage is very stressful for women? How about for men?

Do you think people change after getting married?

Do you think religion influences marriage? If so, in what ways?

Do you think that all adults should be married?

Do you think that you can you find eternal love through the Internet?

Do you want a husband or wife who is older, younger or the same age as you?

Do you want to have children? If so, how many?

How long do you think couples should know each other before they get married?

If your husband or wife has an affair what would you do?

If your parents did not approve of a person you loved and wanted to marry, would that be a difficult situation for you? Why/Why not?

If you had to marry either a poor man/woman whom you really loved, or a rich woman/man whom you did not love, which would you choose?

What advice would you give to someone whose partner hates their best friend?

What are some of the main reasons people get divorced?

What are some qualities that you think are important in a spouse or partner?

Would you ever consider getting divorced?

What do you think of people who get divorced?

What do you think of same-sex marriages?

What is the best way to keep your spouse happy in the marriage?

What would you do if your soon to be mother-in-law seems to hate you?

What would your parents think if you don't get married?

Would you ever marry someone who has been divorced twice?

Would you live with your parents after you get married?

Would you marry someone from another country?

Would you marry someone that your parents didn't like?

Would you marry someone who couldn't speak the same language as you speak?

Do you know a happily married couple?

In your opinion is marriage for life?

Do you think it is OK if married people go out alone?

If you were married would you like to have an open relationship?

Is it better to marry someone who loves you rather than someone whom you love?

Would you marry someone of another nationality?

What are some advantages of an international marriage?

What are some disadvantages?

Do you know anyone who married someone from a different country? If yes, what is their experience like?

How would your parents feel if you married someone from a different country?

Do you think that it is good for children to have parents from two different countries? Why or why not?

3. Dialogue practice: Have the guts
following, memorizing, vocabulary


4. Listening: Aussie accent
https://youtu.be/ZnioDeQNlxQ

Fifty Slang Terms
https://youtu.be/Ei7230KxvCg


5. Learning Australia -- Northern Territories
By threes!


6. Talking about Taiwan

Lunch break

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AFTERNOON

1. Conversation

• Are you a member of a health spa or gym?
• Are you afraid of needles?
• Are you healthy?
• Are your parents healthy?
• Do think that you need to lose weight?
• Do you always eat healthy food?
• Do you bruise easily?
• Do you catch a cold more than once a year?
• Do you consider alcohol a drug?
• Do you drink a lot?
• Do you eat a lot of vegetables?
• Do you eat lots of fruit?
• Do you eat vegetables every day?
• Do you ever get headaches?
  • Do you know anyone who suffers from migraine headaches?
• Do you ever read magazines or news articles about health? If yes, what subject(s) do you find the most interesting?
• Do you exercise?
  • What kind of exercise do you do?
  • How often do you exercise?
• Do you go for regular medical check-ups?
• Do you go to the dentist's twice a year?
• Do you have a lot of stress?
• Do you normally go one doctor in particular or any available doctor?
• Do you have any allergies?
• Do you have any scars?
  • Where are they?
• Do you know anyone who suffers from backaches?
• Do you know anyone with false teeth?
• Do you smoke?
• • If so, do you smoke more than two cigarettes a day?
  • Do you think smoking is not bad for your health?
• Do you take medicine when you are sick?
• Do you take vitamins or mineral supplements?
• Do you take vitamins?
• Do you think it is unhealthy to keep a cat in your home?
• Do you think nuclear power is safe?
• Do you think pets are good for a person's health
• Do you think that the tobacco companies should be held responsible for a person's addiction to nicotine?
• Do you think you are overweight?
• Do you think you will live until a very old age? Why or why not?
• Do you use an alarm clock to wake up?
• Do you usually get enough sleep?
• Do you watch your weight? What foods do you think are healthy?
• Have you ever been hospitalized?
• Have you ever been to an acupuncturist? What do you think of acupuncture?
• Have you ever broken a bone?
• Have you ever burned yourself with hot water?
• Have you ever donated blood?
• Have you ever gotten a black eye?
• Have you ever had braces on your teeth?
• Have you ever had stitches?
• Have you ever sprained your ankle?
• Have you ever taken a sleeping pill to get to sleep?
• How can you reduce stress in your life?
• How have you been feeling lately?
• How many hours of sleep do you get a night?
• How many hours of sleep do you usually get?
• How often do you eat junk food?
  • What kinds of junk food do you eat?
• How often do you exercise?
• How often do you get a cold?
  • (How often do you catch a cold?)
• How often do you get sick in one year?
• How often do you go to the doctor's?
• How often is garbage collected in your neighborhood?
• How would you recommend treating a cold?
• If you were President of Taiwan, what would you do to improve Taiwan's health?
• Should smoking in restaurants be banned?
• What are some things people can do to keep healthy?
• What are some things that cause stress?
• What are some ways to deal with stress?
• What disease frightens you the most? Why?
• What do you do to stay healthy?
  • (What are some things you do to keep healthy?)
• What do you do, if you can't get to sleep?
• What do you think is the most serious health problem in Taiwan?
• What do you think of cosmetic surgery? Do you know anyone who has had cosmetic surgery? Would you ever consider having cosmetic surgery?
• What kind of pollution is the most risky?
• What time did you go to bed when you were a child?
• What's the best way to stop smoking?
• What's the highest temperature you've ever had?
• What's your blood type?
• When was the last time you were sick?
• When you were in high school, how many days of school did you miss each year because of sickness?
• Who is the healthiest person in your family? Who is the least healthy?
• Would you consider donating your organs after your death?
• What do you think of the health service in this country?
• How can the health service be improved?
• What do you know about AIDS?
• What do you know about the common cold?
• What is alternative medicine?
  • Have you ever practiced alternative medicine?
• What treatments or remedies do you follow when you have a cold?
• Do you clean as often as your parent cleaned when you were a child?
• Which parent did/does most of the cleaning in your household?
• How often do people in your country shower?
• Have you ever ended a relationship because your partner cleaned too much or too little?
• Have you ever ended a relationship because your partner had bad hygiene?
• Do you enjoy cleaning? Which kind of cleaning do you enjoy most?
• How often do you brush your teeth?
• Do you think traditional medicine is a good alternative to modern medicine?
• In what circumstances should traditional or alternative medicine be used?

3. Dialogue practice

A. review morning dialogue
B. New dialogue: Class time


4. Activity -- describing images


5. Listening -- Aussie accent 
https://youtu.be/TafO43sy88E


6. Learning Australia -- New South Wales


7. Stress and You