BPA-11
Bridge Program 2016
BPA-11: Australia Quiz
A - About this assignment
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This assignment should be fun.
It offers a chance to look at a few facts and figures about Australia (home of the Bridge Program).
There are three sections.
o Australia quiz
o Australian animals puzzle
o Three interesting things about Australia
Use one document to include all three sections.
You may choose to:
o copy this assignment document (use the MS Word format), changing the text where necessary and
deleting instructions, etc.
o or create a new MS Word document for your assignment.
B - Australia Quiz
What to do
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Read the following story carefully. It contains the answers to questions in the following quiz as well as
correct spelling of many Australian places and animals, etc.
Do not include the ‘Australia journey’ text or any instructions or questions in your answer
List your answers, as indicated below at the end of the questions.
“Australia journey”
It took such a long time to fly from Bangkok to Sydney. We left Bangkok at 6.00 pm and arrived in Sydney at
6.00 am, finding that Sydney’s time was three hours ahead of Bangkok.
The service on the Qantas flight was very good. Australians are proud of their national airline. Our flight path
took us over three of Australia’s six states plus the Northern Territory. The other territory (Australian Capital
Territory) is where the national capital, Canberra, is located, although for its first twenty-five years Australia’s
federal parliament was held in Melbourne.
As we flew across the country I was imagining the birds of Australia flying over the tree-tops: the black and
white magpie, the laughing kookaburra, the beautiful sounding bell bird and lyre bird… but not the emu
which has long legs but cannot fly.
I wondered about the animals in the bushland forests beneath us: the hopping kangaroos, the wild dingoes,
the koalas and possums in the trees, the platypus swimming in the quiet creeks and the wombats coming out
to eat in the dark of night.
Australia has such dangerous animals, too. The dangerous snakes include the taipan, tiger snake and brown
snake. Spiders too: the deadly funnel web spider and the red-back spider. And, of course, there is the
crocodile lurking in the rivers and swamps of the north.
When we arrived at Sydney airport we could see the red, white and blue of the Australian flag flying on many
buildings. Our friends took us to see the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House on the shores
of Port Jackson, or as it is more commonly known, Sydney Harbour.
Our Karen friends told us of their relatives living in Perth and Darwin, while the Karennis in Wollongong also
knew of some in Brisbane and Adelaide. There were none that they knew in the Tasmanian cities of Hobart or
Burnie.
What to do, continued
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Carefully read the questions below.
List your answers like this example:
1A
2C
3A
4B
Etc
Not like this:
1A, 2C, 3A, 4B, etc
1 - The emu can fly:
A. true
B. not true
2 - The magpie is coloured:
A. black
B. white
C. black and white
3 - Which bird makes a ‘laughing’ sound?
A. magpie
B. kookaburra
C. bellbird
4 - Which set has three dangerous animals?
A. taipan snake, possum, red back spider
B. crocodile, brown snake, koala
C. tiger snake, crocodile, funnel web spider
5 - Australia’s first national parliament was in:
A. Canberra
B. Melbourne
C. Sydney
6 - Australia’s national airline is:
A. Virgin Blue
B. Kangaroo Airlines
C. Qantas
7 - Flying from Bangkok to Sydney takes:
A. five hours
B. nine hours
C. twelve hours
8 - The Australian flag colours are:
A. red, blue and white
B. green and gold
C. red, blue and green
9 - Australia has:
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A. six states and two territories
B. seven states and one territory
C. six states and one territory
10 - Sydney Harbour is also known as:
A. Manly Cove
B. Botany Bay
C. Port Jackson
C -- Australian animals puzzle
What to do
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Fit the following animals into the table below:
 Lyre(bird), shark, possum, taipan, turtle, wombat, kangaroo, platypus, crocodile.
You can try copying the following table into your assignment answer document, or creating a table yourself.
In MS Word, go to Insert / table / etc.
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D - Three interesting things about Australia
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From your reading think of three things about Australia that especially interest you.
a. You can use get these simply from the text of ‘Australia journey’
b. Or you may use some other source. If you use another source, then indicate the name of the source
(eg Wikipedia on ‘Sydney’)
c. Use your own words. Do not copy and paste from some other source
Write 50 to 100 words on each of the three things, explaining why you find them interesting.
Use a separate heading for each section.
Give a word count at the end of each section
Example:
Sydney Harbour Bridge
I am very interested in Sydney Harbour Bridge because it is so famous and an icon of Sydney, maybe even of
Australia. I cannot think of Sydney without picturing it in my mind. One day I would like to see it and ride a bicycle
across it.
From news reports I hear that there are occasionally car or truck accidents on the Bridge. These cause major
traffic hold-ups with cars being queued for many kilometres on the roads approaching the Bridge. (84 words)
Enjoy your assignment!  (Remember your check lists!)
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