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Welcome to Australia

A Ride around

Sydney

2010-2011

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Contents

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The Clacsons

Hello! Welcome!

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Personality

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Picture Dictionary

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Welcome to Australia

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Report

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Christmas Play

A Surprise Dinner

The Supermarket

Green Shopping

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The Christmas Competition

Katie Ormerod

Do you want to learn English with us? Let’s start! In Merry Team you will find lots of news, games and cartoons…

Have fun!

A Ride around Sydney Play with let’s Start In Britain

November: Guy Falkes’ Night

The Merry Team editorial team

Hi! I’m Grammy!

In this edition of Let’s Start you will learn:

The dancing penguin is back!

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True or False?

Mambo is an emperor penguin.

What do you know about these animals? Answer the questions.

1 Emperor penguins are the largest type of penguins. T F 2 They live in the most northern point of the Antarctic. T F 3 They can’t swim very well. T F 4 They are in danger of extinction.

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Answers on page 2.

SOLUTIONS - Page 2: 1. true, 2. false (in the most southern point), 3. false, 4 false. Page 4-5: A) 1 biscuits, 2 meat, 3 toothpaste, 4 detergent, 5 fruit, 6 milk, 7 toothbrush, 8 vegetables B) 1 price; 2 detergent; 3 receipt; C) 1 meat; vegetables; fruit. 2 toothbrush; toothpaste; soap; D) How much is it? Pages 6-7: 1 recyclable, 2 pollution, 3 rechargeable, 4 aluminium, 5 plastic, 6 environment, 7 rubbish, 8 waste: Curitiba. Page 12: 1. trampoline 2. gymnastics Page 13: 1. cyclists, 2. Australia, 3. Sydney, 4. bike, 5. November, 6. harbour, 7. charity, 8. park. Hidden city - CANBERRA Pag. 14: True or False?: 1 true, 2 false, 3 true, 4 true, 5 false. Verb Wheels: be, see, participate, do, begin, ride, raise, hope. Katie Ormerod: showed, began, got, was, won - HALIFAX

Mambo, the dancing penguin from Happy Feet, is back and he’s a real tap champion! The director of Happy Feet 2 is still George Miller but this time the film is in 3D! Mambo’s voice is once again the voice of the American actor Elijah Wood, and with him Brad Pitt and Matt Damon also star. The first Happy Feet film won an Oscar and a Golden Globe and earned more than 500 million dollars.

• present simple • present imperatives • there is/there are • prepositions of movement • relative pronouns • past simple regular and irregular verbs

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A Surprise Dinner Tonight we’re going to cook!

We’re going to surprise Mum!

A bottle of milk…

Dad, I’ve got the soap!

What a funny smell…

Let’s get a trolley.

Sarah, let me see the shopping list…

Some meat…

Would you like some plastic bags?

Let’s buy some fruit and vegetables…

Some bread …

Sarah, where are you?

No thanks, I’ll take some paper bags.

Now I understand!

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Green g n i p p o Sh

You can help the environment even when you go shopping.

Here are 10 tips to make your shopping “green”.

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Buy water, milk, yogurt and fruit juice in glass bottles: glass is recyclable!

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Buy biscuits in paper packets: they cost less and the paper is recyclable.

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When you go shopping, instead of using plastic bags, use cotton shopping bags: they don’t break and they can be used again!

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Buy fruit, vegetables and meat locally: the delivery lorries have to travel less so they create less pollution.

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Don’t buy single small packets of products (eg. butter or jam). When we throw away many small packets we create more rubbish.

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In Snowflaketown, everything is ready for the NonCompetition”. comprare frutta e verdura chiuse “Christmas in confezionitree di plastica.

The best Christmas will win the competition.

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The mayor Seofpuoi, fai la spesa online, così non Snowflaketown wants to e inquini meno. usi l’automobile win again this year!

He’s sure that he’ll win!

But is this the true meaning Conserva i cibi nel vetro e non of Christmas?

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nell’alluminio: la produzione di alluminio usa molta energia!

You will need: • A large Christmas tree with decorations.

Compra pile ricaricabili.

Aggiungi il tuo consiglio! ................................................................................ ................................................................................

8 Si trova in Brasile. Qui Gli autobus trasportano il 79% degli abitanti. Ha 200 chilometri di piste ciclabili. Chi ricicla 4 chili di rifiuti, ottiene 1 chilo di frutta e verdura. Completa le parole dello schema e trova il nome della città.

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The lights go out.

End of act two.

Grandfather: Don’t be like that. Wait!

Child: Mr Mayor, Come back!

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Child: Let me introduce the mayor’s grandfather!

Mayor (surprised): Grandad! What are you doing here?

Grandfather: You

Una città molto ecologica

have forgotten the real meaning of Christmas!

Enough is enough!

Christmas is not a competition.

We don’t need to have the biggest tree or the most expensive present!

Child: That’s why we stole the Christmas tree!

Mayor: You stole the tree? But why?

9 The mayor is very embarrassed and angry. He tries to say something but he’s ashamed and he runs away.

Grandfather: Look! Now the people from Snowymountain are your friends and they’re helping you to look for the tree. Now there’s no competition, just friendship and collaboration.

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Non sprecare: compra solo quello che mangi.

The Christmas Competition

Act three In Snowflaketown square the residents of the two towns put the tree back in its place.

Mayor di Snowflaketown: Our Christmas tree has disappeared!

Stolen!

Mayor of Snowymountain: We’ll help you to look for it. You go this way and you go that way!

Mayor of Snowymountain: You were right! The true meaning of Christmas is friendship and collaboration. Now this tree belongs to everyone!

The residents of Snowymountain look for the Christmas tree too.

There is chaos in the square. The child who was talking to the old man suddenly shouts something.

Child (shout loud): Everyone STOP!

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Mayor (very happy): Well done! These decorations are beautiful!

Resident 1: Our streets and town square look so Christmassy!

Mayor: Our Christmas tree will arrive soon and it’s enormous!

In Snowflaketown Square the residents are preparing the Christmas decorations. They are all running about and working very hard.

Act One

Act two It’s Christmas Eve, the happy residents of Snowflaketown all go to the town square.

Mayor: Today is Christmas Eve and no other town is as Christmassy as

Child: The real meaning of Christmas is being together in peace and friendship All the residents hug and wish each other merry Christmas Residents: Merry Christmas!

Snowflaketown.

Residents (surprised): Oh! Our Christmas tree has disappeared!

Resident 1: It was the people from Snowymountain! They want to win the competition this year!

Mayor: Don’t be silly!

Let’s look for the tree!

You go this way and you go that way!

They all run around, this way and that way, looking everywhere for the tree. The residents of Snowymountain arrive with their mayor.

Mayor of Snowymountain: Dear colleague, what’s happening?

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Then they all join hands and form a circle around the Christmas tree and sing: Residents: We wish you a merry Christmas, We wish you a merry Christmas,

We wish you a merry Christmas, 11 And a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Children: (clapping hands and jumping for joy): Yes! Yes! Mayor (happy): Our town will win the “Christmas Competition” again this year!

Children (clapping hands and jumping for joy): Yes! Yes! Mayor: In Snowflaketown you can feel the spirit of Christmas!

Children: (clapping hands and jumping for joy): Yes! Yes! Mayor (irritated, towards the children): Is “yes” the only thing you can say?

Children: Yes!!!!

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We wish you a merry Christmas, We wish you a merry Christmas, We wish you a merry Christmas, And a HAPPY NEW YEAR! Again they all join hands and, with the mayor, form a circle around the tree, singing:

Four people enter. They are carrying a Christmas tree on their shoulders. The tree seems very heavy!

Residents: (with the tree on their shoulders): Oh, dear! Oh, dear!!

Oh, dear!

Child 1: (pointing to the tree): The Christmas tree has arrived!

The residents put the tree in the centre of the square.

The children run and jump around the tree. An old man doesn’t look very happy. Two children go towards the old man.

Child 2: Excuse me, Sir… why aren’t you happy?

Mayor: I’ve realised my mistake and now …

I’d like to celebrate Christmas with you all!

Residents (clapping): Hurray! Hurray!

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The other child whispers something in the old man’s ear and he replies. It looks like a big secret!

The lights go out. End of act one.

Residents: Welcome back, Mr Mayor!

Grandfather: At last! We’ve missed you!

The mayor arrives. The residents interrupt their song and run towards him.

Child 1: He’s the mayor’s grandfather. He’s not interested in the “Christmas Competition”.

But I am! Let’s win this year too!

The old man turns away and doesn’t reply.

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Don’t waste food: buy only what you will eat.

Don’t buy fruit and vegetables in plastic bags.

If possible, do your shopping online: you use your car less and create less pollution.

Keep food in glass containers and not aluminium: the production of aluminium takes a lot of energy!

Buy rechargeable batteries.

Add your tip! ................................................................................ ................................................................................

A very “green” city It’s in Brasil. 79% of the inhabitants use the bus.

There are 200 km of cycle paths. If you recycle 4 kilos of rubbish, you get 1 kilo of fruit and vegetables. Complete the words in the box below to make the name of the city.

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Snowboarding Champion: Katie Ormerod is the queen of the slopes!

Personality

Katie Ormerod Katie began skiing when she was 4 years old and got her first snowboard when she was just 5.

She showed incredible talent and won gold medals in lots of snowboarding competitions for kids and teens.

Now she is sponsored by big companies and she competes in adult competitions against top international snowboarders!

Game

Answer on page 2.

Katie is also very good at 2 other sports: can you find out which ones? Rearrange the letters to spell out Katie’s other hobbies.

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Katie Ormerod is an ordinary 13 year old schoolgirl from Yorkshire, in the North of England. But Katie has an extraordinary talent: she is one of Britain’s biggest snowboarding champions!

A Ride around Sydney

Welcome to Australia!

Sydney is the largest city in Australia.

There are many interesting sights to see including the famous Opera House, the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Observatory. There are also some beautiful beaches and there is, of course, Sydney Park.

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In fact, this is where the Sydney to Gong Bike Ride begins every November!

The bike ride is a 90 km cycle ride from Sydney to Wollongong. The cyclists who participate ride along the coast, through the Royal National Park to the Sea Cliff Bridge in Wollongong.

10,000 cyclists do this very long ride to raise money for charity. Each rider must raise at least $250 and the organisers hope that they will raise of a total of 4 million dollars this year!

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Complete the crossword with words from the text and find the name of Australia’s capital city in the highlighted letters.

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Have you read "Merry Team"? Now you can play!

TRUE OR FALSE? 1 You can recycle glass and paper.

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2 Small packets produce less waste.

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3 Cotton shopping bags pollute less than plastic bags.

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4 When you shop online, you protect the environment.

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5 When you buy fruit in plastic packets, you don’t create pollution. T F

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Guy Fawkes’ Night Remember, remember the fifth of November … it’s Guy Fawkes’ Night in Britain!

Traditions In 1605, thirteen men planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London because they wanted to kill the King of England. But the plan failed when Guy Fawkes, one of the 13 men, was caught on 5th November that year. The English people were very happy that their king was safe and they celebrated by lighting bonfires (small fires made with wood and sticks) around London. Now, every year, on 5th November, British people celebrate Guy Fawkes’ Night.

On 5th November, all around the country, people meet to watch amazing firework displays and they see the bonfire burn. They cook potatoes and sausages on the bonfire and eat a traditional dessert called Parkin cake.

Children also learn the Guy Fawkes’ nursery rhyme which goes like this: “Remember, remember the fifth of November Gunpowder, treason and plot.

I see no reason why gunpowder, treason Should ever be forgot”

Can you learn the rhyme too?

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