1 Do the Australia quiz.

• Circle the right answer.

1	What is the official name of the country?	6	Why is the Great Barrier Reef known all over the world?
	a) Australia		a) It is very beautiful.
	b) The Commonwealth of Australia		b) It is the longest coral reef in the world.
	c) The Commonwealth of Nations		c) It is the best source of corals.
2	What is the capital of Australia?	7	What is the most popular tree in Australia?
	a) Melbourne		a) eucalyptus
	b) Canberra		b) pine tree
	c) Sydney		c) palm tree
3	What branch of the economy is best	8	What is the hottest month in Australia?
	developed in Australia?		a) July
	a) agriculture		b) March
	b) industry		c) January
	c) tourism
		9	What is the official currency in Australia?
4	What animals are the symbol of Australia?		a) Australian dollar
	a) kangaroos		b) pound
	b) possums		c) American dollar
	c) koala bears
		10	In which Australian city were the 2000 Olympic Games
5	Who discovered Australia?		held?
	a) Christopher Columbus		a) Melbourne
	b) Vitus Bering		b) Canberra
	c) James Cook		c) Sydney

2 Answer the questions and match the Australian territories and their areas.

1. What is the area of the Northern Territory, if it is the third biggest territory in Australia?

2. What is the area of the Australian Capital Territory, if it is Australia’s smallest territory?

3. How large is the state of Western Australia, if you know that it’s the country’s biggest?

4. Victoria is Australia’s third smallest state. What is its area?

5. South Australia is the fourth biggest state in the country. What is its area?

6. If Tasmania is the second smallest state in the country, what is its area?

227,600 km²

984,377 km²

2,432 km²

801,600 Tom/²

200. Ы;

8,525,500 km²

200. km²

6 7,800 km²

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Read these clips from a Russian tourist brochure.

• Translate the underlined phrases into English.

Щ ЛТ RUSSIA!

Турагентство “Звезда” предлагает путешествие в город Томск и Томскую область.

Томск — (~п третий по величине город в Западной. Сибири. (2) один из старейших городов Сибири, крупный промышленно-экономический и научно­культурный центр на востоке страны...

...Томск — (3) один из самых значительных (significant! экономических и административных центров Сибири...

... (4) Важнейшая отрасль промышленности в Томской области — деревообрабатывающая...

...Основанный в 1888 году, томский государственный университет — (5) старейший в Сибири...

... (6) Один из крупнейших и богатейших садов_ мира — Сибирский ботанический сад университета является научным учреждением, роль и значение которого постоянно возрастают...

... (7) Наиболее интересной достопримечательностью Томска являются его деревянные терема, украшенные причудливой резьбой.

... (8) Самое живописное место в городе — университетская роща, основанная известным ботаником П. Н. Крыловым.

^esson 3 “Boarding game”

4. Look at the ticket and answer the following questions:

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TIME

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1. Who is flying?

2. What is the date of the flight?

3. What is the flight number to Sydney?

4. What time does the plane leave?

5. How much baggage is a passenger allowed to carry free?

6. When does the passenger return home?

5. Read this extract from Mr Douglas’s diary about travelling to Australia via Singapore.

• Fill in the gaps with the appropriate words in the box.

information desk flight lost property office baggage check-in desk excess gate boarding cards customs departures duty free shop/store terminal

We arrived at the airport in plenty of time. We put our (1)

onto trolleys and headed into the (2) At the

3. we asked where the (4)

. area was and first went to the (5) They looked at

my ticket and weighed my baggage. It was 25 kilos. I was only allowed 23 kilos so I paid for my

5. baggage. We got our (7)

and went to (8) and passport control. An officer

asked me if I had any guns or drugs with me. I tried to say no in Chinese but the officers were quite competent in English and we continued in English.

We decided to go to the (9) and I bought some souvenirs.

We went to one of the airport bars when my wife noticed she didn’t have her handbag with her. She was very upset. We looked around but without any success. After fifteen minutes we decided to go to the (10)

We didn’t really think it would do any good so we were really

surprised when they had my wife’s handbag! This made her so happy that she forgot about her fear of

flying. At that moment they called our (11) We found our

(12) , showed our boarding cards and passports again and got

on the plane.