Research about Australia

Tuesday, December 18^th

 AUSTRALIA AND FAMOUS AUSTRALIANS

A- The flags:

This is the flag of the Aborigines. It’s red, black and yellow.

Red represents the earth.

Black represents the Aborigines.

And yellow represents the sun.

This is the flag of Australia.

There is the flag of the United Kingdom and 6 stars.

The little stars represent the Southern cross and the big star represents

the Commonwealth.

This is the flag of the Commonwealth.

There is a planet in the center with sun rays around it.

The sun rays represent many countries.

This is the flag of the Olympic games.

It’s blue, black, yellow, green, and red.

The circles represent the five continents.

B. Questions about Australia:

The Aborigines are the first people in Australia, before the colony.

The Commonwealth is a group of united nations around Great

Britain.

Today, Queen Elizabeth II (the second) is at the head of Australia but

the prime minister rules the country.

The Olympic Games were in Sydney in 2000.

At the beginning of the colony, Britain used Australia as a prison.