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S Worl< in pairs. Answer the quiz questions.
When did the Aboriginat people first arrive in Australia?
a about 50,000 years ago b about 25,000 years ago
c about 5,000 years ago
ln which century did Britain first cotonise Australia?
a 77th century b 18th century c 19th century
What did the British estabtish in Botany Bay?
a a cricket club b a holiday resort c a penal cotony
4 The British colonists took Aboriginal land principatly to
a grow crops. b raise livestocl<. c buitd new towns.
5 What made Australia much richer in the mid-19th
ce ntu ry?
a livestock farming b the arrivaI of immigrants
c the discovery of gold
6 Austratia gained independence from Britain in S 6d fnCO ffi Work in pairs. Listen to part of a song
a 1.851. b 1901 c 1,951. called Botany Bay, written in the 19th century. Discuss the
questions.
H S fnCO Listen and checkyour answers to the quiz.
1 Who is 'we' in the song?
H ft fnCO Listen again. Answer the questions. 2 What do they find depressing?
3 Who etse is on the ship besides them?
1 What information is given about the early indigenous
4 What warning is contained in the third verse?
peopte?
2 What unfortunate effect did the arrivaI of the European
colonists immediately have on the Aboriginat peopte? IIOUINY
3 What caused conftict between the colonists and the ITAY
indigenous peopte? It's not leaving old England we care.about, r
4 What effect did the Gold Rush have on the population?
It's the bloomin' monotony wears us out
& Complete the text with the adjectives below.
And the prospect of Boiqqy Bat
r-*ieftl*fi iir*t {re* ide;al *l.*i;;l'{:!\,rJd*d p*naI th, too-ro'ir-&:e, oo,vob-lie,'oo,,,,,roolay,
$i?*r reiurtanl us*ful Too-roo-lie, oo-roo-Iie ay; :
Too-roo-lie, oo-roo-lie, oo.roo-lay,
To o- roo -Iie, oo-roo-lie-ay.
Oh, the Captain and all the ship,s officers
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The Bo's'n and all of the creq
The first- and second-class passengers,l
Knows what us poor convicis go ttr"*ou-gfr,
y the late eighteenth century, Britain's prisons had Chorus
become very 1-, and transportation to the
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American colonies had become a punishment NoW all you young dukes and you duchesses,
Take warning from what I've to say.
for many crimes. In the 1770s Britain lost her American
Be sure that you own aII you touchesses
colonies and was forced to look elsewhere. Australia, which
Or they:Il land you in Bdtany Bayr,,ir.,,::::,...,ti .
had recently been claimed for Britain by Captain James Cook,
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was the location for a new coiony. Conditions
on the transport ships were' and many prisoners
died before reaching their destination. For the few decades
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after the arrival of the settlers, convicts made up the
majori Ly of Austra I ia's popu la tion. Approx i m ate ly I o1,700 convicts taking their jobs. It was the discovery of gold that
convicts, of whom 25,000 were womery *"." .ur-rt to Australia finally led to the abolition of transportation. Free settlers were
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between 1788 and 1868. As time went by, however, they were understandably to share the new-found wealth with
increasingly seen as a7-source of labour rather than convicted criminals, and argued that transportation was no
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simply as prisoners undergoing punishment. Opposition to longer a punishment but a ticket to riches. The last
transportation grew among the free settlers, who resented the convict ship arrived in Australia in 1868.

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