6._AUSTRALIA

Liam Hemsworth - Australian actor

- he starred in The Last Song, The Hunger Games film series or in Independence Day

*SCHOOL OF THE AIR, FLYING DOCTOR SERVICE

school of the air

- many children in Australia live in remote areas which we call "The Bush"

- many of these children have been schooled by a combination of home schooling from parents and via the School

of the Air a uniquely Australian way of getting an education by using an HF radio receiver to communicate with the

school teacher and your class mates

- on Monday mornings everyone in his School of the Air participates in an assembly using the HF radio

(the school supplies the Radio Transceiver for each family)

- instead of a blackboard, the teacher uses an electronic whiteboard to demonstrate the use of fractions, they used word documents which has been shared for all the students to access instantly on the website

- after the lesson a pupil has quiet time to work alone on his projects, sometimes a tutor will come to help him through certain subjects, each term he receives a learning package in the post with audio and videocassette tapes, library books and computer software

- once a year all pupils go to a classroom in the town for one week

flying doctor service

- the Royals Flying Doctor Service of Australia is a medical service in Australia

- it provides emergency and other health care to people living in remote areas (it is not-for-profit organisation)

- communities in the Outback and the bush are generally small, and spread over large distances -> many farms and

stations are located far away from towns -> because of this, many of these places do not have access to hospitals

- the Flying Doctor Service brings medical service to them

- people can talk to doctors by radio and in an emergency, a doctor comes to them by plane or takes them to a hospital -> these doctors are called “Flying Doctors”

the Australian flag

The Sydney Opera House

the Sydney Bridge

The Great Barrier Reef

Ayers Rock in Uluru