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A “Language across the
Curriculum” theme.
Name ________________
Date started: __________
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Australia Language across the Curriculum Theme
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has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents
Act 1988.
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PLEASE NOTE: THE WORKSHEETS WITHIN THE THEME ARE GRADED.
THERE ARE SIMPLER WORKSHEETS AND MORE COMPLEX BASED ON
THE SAME PIECE OF WRITING AND WITH THE SAME FORMAT AND
LAYOUT. CHOOSE THOSE THAT ARE SUITABLE FOR PUPIL/S.
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Teaching Ideas that you may find helpful
As it is unlikely that this theme will be used in its entirety in a whole class situation, the following ideas pertain to
children being taught in a one to one situation eg children who are excluded, children who are in a special unit
through illness etc. children in hospital education, children who are being home educated.
Start by showing the power point slide show and discussing where Australia is in relation to the area where you
live. Discuss the differences and similarities to your way of life and culture.
Before you print the theme for the pupil, go through it and eliminate those which are either too easy or too
difficult. It is a good idea to print all the pages that you plan to use for the pupil and then staple them into a
booklet. I have found that the pupil responds well to this and feels excited about the work that will be done. You
need to explain to the pupil that there is an order in the book and that he/she can’t just hop about and do the bits
that look interesting.
Pages 6 – 10 Maps: Us this section as the GEOGRAPHY section of this Language across the curriculum theme.
Work through the maps and allow the pupil time to shade them. Discuss the various cities, oceans etc and illicit
from the pupil their knowledge of any of the places mentioned. the map on page 10 gives an opportunity to
discuss how time is different from east to west and why this is. I also allow the pupil access to a world map that
has the time zones on it and we work out how many hours ahead/behind Australia is from where we are in the
world. I then give some scenarios e.g. you are getting up in the morning. What time would it be in Australia? etc
etc.
Page 11 Many of the words in this story are difficult and many pupils may need assistance to read them. Assist the
pupil to sound out the words and explain the meanings of the difficult words. Then help the pupil to find the words
in the dictionary OR explain the meanings of the words via discussion and then let the pupil write down the
meanings.
Pages 13 – 18 Not all these worksheets need to be done. Choose those that are at a suitable level for your pupil.
When I teach common nouns I explain to my pupil that a common noun is something that you can usually see,
touch and maybe hold. You can put the word A in front of it and it makes sense. I ask the pupil to list as many
nouns as they can in the room where we are sitting and then we put A in from of them eg A table A Chair A
television and so on. Then discuss what proper nouns are and ask the pupil to suggest what these might be.
Explain about the capital letters and that we can recognize proper nouns by capital letters. However we must be
careful about words at the beginning of a sentence. They are not all proper nouns.
Pages 19-20 These 2 pages are very important. Ask the pupil to cut out all the sentences, headings and the picture.
Now place the headings in a suitable order. Which one is the heading? Which should be the next sub heading and
so on. Arrange the subheadings in a horizontal line across the desk. Then ask the pupil to sort through all the
sentences and place them under the suitable subheading. Once this has been done ask them to look at each group
of sentences and finally rearrange their order. Lastly then glue the sentences on 2 pages and read the sentences.
Page 38. This is a difficult alphabetical ordering exercise and a practical help has been given on page 39. All
instructions given on page 39.
NOTE: THE PAGES IN THE SAMPLE DO NOT CORRESPOND TO THE ABOVE.
THESE ARE THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE FULL THEME.
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Learning objectives
By the end of this theme I will be able to:
 Use a variety of books and text sources to find information
 Recognize a proper noun and know that I must use capital
letters for proper nouns.
 Use the correct punctuation in a piece of writing.
 Be able to choose the correct homophone in a sentence
 Be able to recognize the difference between direct and
reported speech and to change a sentence from direct speech
to reported speech.
 To understand when it is important to be able to use reported
speech eg giving a statement of what someone has said.
 To learn and make use of a range of collective nouns to
enrich speech and writing
 To increase vocabulary by studying a range of opposites and
using these correctly in speech and writing.
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Choose the correct answer and underline it.
1. Which ocean lies between Africa and Australia?
Indian Ocean Atlantic Ocean
2. Which ocean is above and to the right of Australia ?
Pacific Ocean Indian Ocean
3. Which ocean is below Australia?
Atlantic Ocean Southern Ocean
4. Put a circle around the word “equator” on the map.
5. Is Australia above or below the equator?
below
above
6. Do you think Australia is in the south or in the north?
North south
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Here is a short piece of text about Australia. In it there are some
rather difficult words that you may not have come across
before. Your task is to use a dictionary to look up the meanings
of these words.
Learning objective:
use a dictionary to find the meaning of
unfamiliar words;
Australia is in the southern
hemisphere. It is actually an island but
because it is so large it is considered to
be a continent. Because Australia has
not been attached to the other
continents for millions of years it has
some very strange and interesting
animals. There are no large mammals
in Australia but there are many
different types of marsupials. The
fauna and flora of Australia are also
very interesting and different to those
found in other parts of the world.
hemisphere ___________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
attached ____________________________________________________
mammals ____________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
marsupials ___________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
fauna _______________________________________________________
flora
______________________________________________________
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Add ed and ing to the ends of these words to form new words.
Remember to double the last consonant of the word. Follow the
example given.
beg
nip
dab
dip
drum
grab
hug
nag
rub
shop
sip
stab
stir
grab
whip
trim
tug
sob
stir
rip
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begged
ING
begging
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Common
Nouns
Common nouns are the names of ordinary things. There are
many common nouns in this picture. Here is a list of words.
Shade each box that has a common noun in it.
kangaroo
lying
grass
scratching
legs
listening
fur
shade
hot
paws
ears
sound
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nose
green
brown
sleep
under
eyes
whiskers
sneeze
teeth
hop
tail
grow
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Shade in all the boxes that have
a common noun.
kangaroo
delicious
yacht
desert
school
grass
eat
car
hot
boomerang
sun
live
coral
meat
seaside
river
barbeque
sunshine
surf
surfing
drive
play
sheep
pudding
ride
rain
bathroom
horses
create
swim
run
Now choose 6 nouns and write a sentence using each one.
1. _________________________________________________________
2. _________________________________________________________
3. _________________________________________________________
4. _________________________________________________________
5. _________________________________________________________
6. _________________________________________________________
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In the table below follow the example given to split these
difficult AU words into syllables to help you spell them. Once
you have split the word up then look at the word carefully.
Then cover the first 2 columns and try and write the word.
When you have completed this find the words in the word
search below.
AU spellings
Australia
Au stra lia
Australia
August
auction
author
laundry
automatic
automobile
Autumn
caught
naughty
daughter
exhausted
faulty
haunted
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Homophones are words that sound
the same but they are spelt
differently and they have different
meanings
Eg red- Blood is red
read – Yesterday I read a book
Choose the correct homophone to complete these sentences
1. In Australia the skies are sunny and _____________ (blew
blue)
2. You can ____________ (urn earn) a lot of money if you work
in Sydney.
3. The tourists ____________________(sighed side) when they
saw the ________ (sun son) set over Ayers Rock.
4. Most young people in Brisbane own a surf ________________
(bored board).
5. There are many luxury yachts that _______________ (berth
birth) in Sydney harbour.
6. Australia is a large Island so it does not __________________
(boarder border) onto any other country.
7. A kangaroo has very large __________ (pause paws).
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If you were an aborigine, here are some of
the names you might want to give your
children. All start with the letter A. Put these
names into alphabetical order in the column
on the right. If this is very difficult use the
“cards” on the next page to sort them first.
Allunga
Araluen
Arora
Allora
Arunta
Arika
Araluen
Akama
Alba
Akala
Apanie
Allirea
Arnurna
Allambee
Arinya
Amarina
Alkina
Anka
Adoni
Amaroo
Alkira
Alinga
Apari
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