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