16 Ответьте на вопросы к тексту:

1. What is the huge interior of the country like?

2. What domestic animals are the most numerous in Australia.

3. Why do many Australian people have English ancenstry?

4. What way of live did Australians develop?

5. Why is Australia considered one of the world’s developed countries?

6. What countries does Australia have the most close ties with?

17 Закончите предложения, используя предлагаемые варианты:

1. Australia lies between

a) South Pacific and Indian Ocean;

b) Pacific and Atlantic Ocean;

c) Indian and Atlantic Ocean.

2. The Latin word “australis”

a) a very far away land;

b) southern;

c) wild and desert country.

3. The biggest cities in Australia are

a) Canberra;

b) Seattle and Marlboro;

c) Sidney and Melbourne.

4 Most of Australian people have

a) British ancestry;

b) Maori and Polynesian ancestry;

c) Dutch and Portugal ancestry.

5 Australia is one of the world’s leading producers of

a) cotton and grain;

b) wool and bauxite;

c) oil and fish.

6. The most typical animals of Australian nature are

a) elephants and monkeys;

b) lions and bears;

c) kangaroos and koalas.

18 Прочитайте текст 2с и составьте письменный план. Text 2c

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the Southern Pacific Ocean. If lies about 1000 miles south east of Australia. The country consists of two main islands – the North Island and the South Island – and several dozen much smaller islands. Most of the smaller islands are hundreds of miles from the main ones. Wellington is the capital of New Zealand, and Auckland is the largest city. The country was once part of the British Empire. Today, it is an independent member of the Commonwealth of Nations, an association of countries that replaced the empire.

New Zealand is a beautiful country of snow-capped mountains, green lowlands, beaches, and many lakes and waterfalls. No place is more than eighty miles from the coast, and in few places are mountains or hills out of view.

New Zealand’s standard of living ranks among the highest in the world. For many yeas, the country’s economy depended largely on agriculture.

Today, agriculture, manufacturing, and service industries are all important to the economy. New Zealand’s economy depends on trade with numerous countries. These countries include Australia, Britain, Japan and the United States.

The country has a long tradition of equal rights and benefits for all citizens. In 1893, it became the first nation in the world to give women the vote. In addition, New Zealand was among the first countries to provide social security benefits and old age pension for its people. Today, the nation has one of the world’s first public health programmes.

The first settlers in New Zealand were Polynesians. They probably came to the country by the country by canoes from the Cook, Marquesas, or Society islands, which lie northeast of New Zealand about AD 100. The Maoris came several hundred years later. The first Maoris lived mainly by fishing and hunting. The later Maoris developed a culture based on agriculture as well as on fishing and hunting.

In 1642 the Dutch sea captain A. Tasman became the first European to sight New Zealand. The Dutch named the island “New Zealand” after a province in the Netherlands.

Explorers from France, Spain, and other countries visited New Zealand during the late 1700’s. By 1790 the seals and whales in coastal waters had begun to attract American, Australian, and European hunters. Hunters and traders, almost all of them British became the first colonists in New Zealand. New Zealand had no legal government and it remained a lawless frontier country until 1840.

Now the people of New Zealand have a high standard of living. They have long been the best-fed people in the world. They also receive excellent health care under the government’s medical program. New Zealand today has limited or reduced many of the problems that face other countries such as environmental pollution, poverty, racial conflict, and urban overcrowding. It’s top goals include conserving the environment, creating new job opportunities for women, and helping more Maoris obtain positions of leadership in industry and the professions.