Activities
Ned Kelly – Outlaw or Folk Hero
Philip Hewitt
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1. How much do you know about Australia?
Let’s start off with a quiz. You will find the answers – and some additional
information – at the end of these activities. You can’t write on your screen, of
course, so print this page out and put a cross in the ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ box. If
you know the correct answers to the wrong statements, write them down on
your sheet.
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2. Australians drive on the left, like people in Britain.
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3. Australia is a republic within the British Commonwealth.
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4. The capital of Australia is Melbourne.
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5. Australians are very keen on football, rugby and cricket.
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6. Many Australian children do not go to school.
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7. December is the coldest month in Australia.
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8. Australian whisky is world famous.
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1. Nobody lived in Australia before the white men came.
9. Several British atomic bombs were tested on
the Australian mainland.
10. Australia’s state airline is called QANTAS.
2. Australian English
There are many differences between British and Australian English. Can you
match the ten British English words or phrases on the left with the Australian
English words and phrases on the right?
British English
Australian English
That’s exactly what I mean
toilet
hello
dunny
woman
fantastic
Englishman
My goodness!
Pommy
Strewth
genuine
friend
cobber
bonzer
apartment
Too right
sheila
unit
g’day
dinkum
3. Word families
You can build up your word-power faster if you learn not just new words but
also their ‘family members’.
We have put some of the new words from this reader into a list and would like
you to supply the missing members of the family. Print out this page before
doing the exercise. You can correct your answers by using a dictionary, but
don’t look the words up until you have tried your best to fill in the gaps. When
you look up a word in a dictionary, it is a good idea to ‘meet the family’: look at
other forms of the basic word and their meanings. We have given you a
separate column for such words.
Noun
Verb
Adjective
proud
reward
sympathize
messy
traitor
beg
suspicious
disgrace
bored
desperation
Other ‘family members’ you know
or have found in the dictionary
4. Suffixes and prefixes
As word-building often involves the use of prefixes and suffixes, you will
gradually get a feeling for what these word elements mean. For example: you
know the word ‘public’, you see the verb ‘to publicize’, you look it up in a
dictionary and find that it means ‘to make something public’, so you can
guess that the prefix ‘-ize’ has the meaning ‘to make’. If you are ‘good at
prefixes and suffixes’, you can often ‘guess’ the right forms, and the better
your guesses, the quicker you will learn new vocabulary.
Here are some useful prefixes, their meanings and a couple of examples:
Negative
dis- un- in- im- : dislike, unusual, inefficient, impossible
Repetition
re- : re-open, renovate (often with a hyphen before a vowel)
Time or position
These prefixes are use in words taken from Latin and, unlike the examples
above, are not usually associated with familiar English words, but if you know
what the prefixes mean, this knowledge may help you understand the
meaning of an unknown word:
inter- (= between) sub- (=under) super- (= above) pre- (= before) post- (=after):
interrupt, submarine, superintendent, prevent, postpone
If you do not know what the examples mean, look them up in a dictionary and
see if a similar prefix is used in your language.
Suffixes:
Forming abstract nouns from verbs
Verbs ending in –ate nouns ending in –ation: to create - creation
Typical abstract-noun endings added to concrete nouns or adjectives
-ship -dom -ery: friendship, kingdom, wisdom, robbery
Typical adjective endings added to nouns:
-like (positive) -ish (negative) -ful (positive) -less (negative):
workmanlike, childish, helpful, hopeless
People doing the action of a verb
-er/-or (male) -ress (female): driver, actor, actress
Using the above information, add a prefix or suffix to the words in brackets to
complete the sense of the sentences. Remember to use the correct tenses of
verbs.
1. (appear)
Nobody knew where she was. She had _____________
completely.
2. (child)
He trusted his friend with a ____________ simplicity.
3. (member) ____________ of this club is restricted to people over 18.
4. (child)
His bad behaviour can only be described as __________.
5. (help)
Without his mobile phone he was completely __________.
6. (help)
The lady at the Tourist Information Centre was very
_________.
7. (order)
The product you ordered is not available this week. Please
_________ it next week.
8. (patient)
He didn’t wait for the others. He was so _________ to start.
9. (celebrate) There was a big __________ for the winning football team.
10. (cook)
On of my hobbies is _________.
5. Ned Kelly crossword
Some of the clues to this crossword are very similar to the definitions of
the more difficult words at the bottom of the pages in your book. So if you
have trouble solving the crossword, just take another look at ‘Ned Kelly –
Outlaw and Folk Hero’.
Clues
Across
1 Place where wood is cut by machines
7 Land which becomes part of another country because
many people from that country have gone there to live
9 Piece of cloth hung in front of a window to keep light out
10 You need one of these to go camping in
13 Not very self-confident when meeting strangers
14 Surname of the Superintendent who caught Ned
15 Money paid to the owner of a house, farm etc. by the
person who actually lives there
17 Opposite of ‘he’
18 Solemn promise that you will tell the truth, do right etc.
19 Of a very light colour – almost white
20 To say something in a low, unclear voice
21 To have the same opinion as another person
22 Opposite of ‘well’
23 Like a finger on the end of your foot
25 Very important
27 Very bad
Down
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Abbreviation for ‘Saint’ or ‘Street’
Light fog
Surname of one of the policeman at Stringybark Creek
Small ship
A rubber ball does this when you drop it on the ground
“He left without saying good-…”
Criminal who lives in the countryside
“She stopped and thought about it before doing it” = She …….
Strong metal which is used to make weapons
Change or cancellation of a punishment ordered by a judge
First name of a Chinaman
Past tense of ‘to mean’
Every single one of a group
Opposite of ‘down’
Opposite of ‘come’
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