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Australia's geography
Australia's geography
Work in pairs where student A finds a map of Australia on the Internet and has to describe it in such a way that student B can draw the country on a piece of paper. No looking at the screen! To be put up on the walls in your classroom. (product)
Try to get these details right:
The overall shape of the coastline.
The location of the island of Tasmania.
The location of eight of the biggest cities.
The borders between the states (there are six states, including Tasmania).
As an associate professor at the Department of Culture and Identity at Roskilde University, Lars Jensen teaches, conducts research and writes articles about globalization and the third world, post-colonial studies, and Australian cultural history.
An overview of Lars Jensen's research and publications can be found at rucforsk.ruc.dk.
Non-academic Danes may also benefit from Lars Jensen's expertise and personal insight into Australia's history and culture if they pick up Politiken's Turen går til Australien, which Lars Jensen is the author of, or his translation of David Day's Australiens historie.
Lars Jensen travels all over the globe, but probably feels most at ease enjoying a pint of amber fluid (beer) and a sanger (sandwich) at a bar overlooking Sydney Harbour.
Poetry - This Land
Poetry - This Land
Theme: Relationship between culture and the harsh land
Theme: Relationship between culture and the harsh land
Pre-reading: This Land
Pre-reading: This Land
Describe the picture using words from the glossary for the poem. (product) Hand in in ElevFeedBack
Pair work: Imagine what it would be like to live in such a place: Student A loves it, student B hates it!
Now read the poem aloud a few times.
Translate the poem and use a dictionary for the difficult words - not AI or google translate. (product) Hand in in ElevFeedBack
This Land
This Land
Give me a harsh land to wring music from,
brown hills, and dust, with dead grass
straw to my bricks.
Give me words that are cutting-harsh
as wattle-bird notes in dusty gums
crying at noon.
Give me a harsh land, a land that
swings, like heart and blood,
from heat to mist.
Give me a land that like my heart
scorches its flowers in spring,
then floods upon its summer ardour.
Give me a land where rain
is rain that would beat high heads low.
Where wind howls at the windows
and patters dust on tin roofs
while it hides the summer sun
in a mud-red shirt.
Give my words sun and rain,
desert and heat and mist,
spring flowers, and dead grass,
blue sea and dusty sky,
song-birds and harsh cries,
strength and austerity
that this land has.
Ian Mudie: This Land. 1935). Jindyworobak Publications. Her efter Barbara Dunn and Lene Thorborg: A Look Down Under, Futurum, 1985.
You can hear the poem read aloud in Australian language Ian Mudie: This Land (1935)
Adjektiver i This Land (product)
Find 4 eksempler på adjektiver, der beskriver substantiver. Noter både adj og subst.
Find 1 eksempel på et adjektiv, som står som subjektsprædikat.
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