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1、The computers at Susans school are all connected to each other and the school has an online notice board where students can ask questions and give their opinions.Susan posted a question about the discovery of Australia on the online notice board.Read the questions and what her fellow students replie
2、d.Reading task on P722021/8/11 星期三1Discovery of Australia40,000 years ago People from Asia settled in the place we now call Australia.The continent was then cut off from Asia 10,000 years ago.2021/8/11 星期三21421 Some people think a Chinese fleet led by Zheng He may have visited Australia.1606 A Dutch
3、 sea captain first mapped the north coast.2021/8/11 星期三31644 Abel Tasman made a map on which he combined all known land and guessed the rest.1770 Captain Cook sailed up the east coast of the continent1802 Mathew Flinders sailed around the continent,mapped it and called it Australia.2021/8/11 星期三41.W
4、hy do you think school children in Australia in the 1950s were told that Captain Cook discovered Australia?Captain Cook claimed the land for Britain and as Australia was originally settled by people form Britain,this is the part of the history that they were taught.Discussion2021/8/11 星期三52.Why does
5、 Mary White think European explorers didnt discover the Australian continent until the 17th century?Before 1644,explorers didnt know they had found a continent.They just visited small parts of it.2021/8/11 星期三63.Why does Nick Chance think Chinese explorers reached the continent so much earlier?He re
6、ad about the Chinese explorers on the Internet.2021/8/11 星期三74.Patrick Hall says that the ancestors of the Aborigines discovered Australia at least 40,000 years ago.Why do you think the other children didnt give this answer?They may have thought that Aborigines always lived on the continent so they
7、didnt think they discovered it.2021/8/11 星期三85.Which of the students answers do you agree with and why?Remember,that you first need to decide what“discovered”means and what“Australia”means.Many possible answers will depend on how students interpret discovered and Australia.2021/8/11 星期三9Homework Since youve learned so much about Australia in this Unit,choose several aspects that you think are interesting to write a report(e.g.its animals,plants,scenery,cities,beaches,people,leisure activities,history or something else).2021/8/11 星期三102021/8/11 星期三11