Linda Came from Australia

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Linda came from Australia

by Juliette Pallas, Sarah Savoca, Lea Courcelle, Charlotte Pédersol,

Fanny Raffin et Laura Mathurin

The Champollion’s students received, October 20th, an Australian, Linda paul came to answer the numerous questions of hundred very curious pupils.

Australia is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the Mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It’s the world’s sixth-larged country by total area. For at least 40000 years before European settlement in the late 18th century, Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians, who belonged to one or more of roughly 250 language groups.

Linda Paul was born in Brisbane and lives today in Melbourne which is famous for her weather conditions. The expression “for seasons in one day” is a part of the local popular culture and is easily cheekedby numerous visitors of the city. In spring, Melbourne usually benefits from long periods of mild weather and from a clear sky. Melbourneis also knavn to have very hot and dry summers with maximal temperature over 40. COAT OF ARMS

CATHY FREEMAN

Linda Paul told us about the fabulous story of Cathy Freeman, this Aborigine who wanted to win an Olympic gold medal.

CHRISMAS DAY

For Christmas, while many families celebrate this day, under the snow in negative temperatures, Linda Paul, can celebrate it on the beach, with a barbecue and sea food, never theless she eats the famous pudding with custard.

OPERA HOUSE

The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts center in the Australian city of Sidney. It was made a UNESCO world. Heritage site on 28 June 2007.It is one the 20th century’s most distinctive buildings and one the most famous performing art centres in the world.

ULURU

Australia is an immense beautiful country of twenty two million inhabitants, which is bigger that Europe, we can visit lots of things like Uluru it’s wonderful but very dangerous to climb on, some people fall.

THE GREAT BARRIER REEF

The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest reef system composed of over 2900 individual reef and 900 islands stretching for over 2000km. The reef is the Coral Sea off the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia. Linda Paul, saw sharks when she went but they were not dangerous.

ABORIGINAL CHILD

You should not forget that during four hundred years the Aborigines lived in Australia, today they represent no more than two percent of the population, in Australia. Don’t learn the Aboriginal history. They have here a victim of slavery, inhumanity. They were the “stolen generation” because the child were torn from their mothers to be educated and the use the “white”.

THE TEN VERY DANGEROUS ANIMALS

Australia is not a quite beautiful country;numerous animals’ species can be very dangerous and provoke the death as the ten followingnes:

#1 The funnel web spider #6 The red back spider

#2 The salt crocodile #7 The taipan

#3 white sharks #8 The jelly fish

#4 The stonefish #9 The blue rind

#5 The octopus #10 The tiger snake