Gold! is a package of reading material at three successive levels of difficulty to encourage timid readers to go beyond their normal comfort zone. We use the terms Easy, Medium and Hard, rather than the more conventional professional terms to distinguish the three levels because students know these simple words and are not distracted from the text trying to work out the meanings of more difficult terms. The text covers the history of gold in Australia, including discovery, early mining methods, problems on the goldfields, including the Eureka Stockade and anti-Chinese riots, and gold in Australia today.
Thousands of men Thousands
of men left their jobs Men from all over Australia and from many other
parts of the world abandoned their jobs and rushed to seek their fortunes in
The reading texts are accompanied by Gold! Workbook
which contains:
There is also an audio CD to support students who like to "read along" and to help with general listening and detailed auditory processing problems. As well as the texts read by Lyndal Reid, an extremely experienced Australian ESL teacher, the CD contains The Gold Song, written by Lyndal Reid and John Davidson and performed by Keith Davidson to the tune of Waltzing Matilda. Gold! ISBN 0 9757593 0 2 Gold! Workbook ISBN 0 9757593 1 0 Gold! sound CD ISBN 0 9757593 2 9 For copies of package, see list of bookshops under Available from. |