Lake Eyre – one of the wonders of the world – answers to exercise 1
1 Twice if you go up to the comment about a sailing regatta – and four times if you actually watch the video for a couple more minutes to the end.
2 Night’s fallen on the long drought.
Night has fallen on something is a poetic way of saying something has ended, especially a period in time, or an era. Eg Night has fallen on our local cinema.
3 That the area is in flood – (and yet it’s in flood) / that (the) rivers are flooding / flooded.
4 670000 hectares.
Kalamoona (?) cattle station, combined with Lake Eyre National Park and Simpson Desert Regional Reserve have a combined area that is larger than the area of Tasmania.
5 ‘You’re joking!’ / ‘you’re kidding!’.
6 What Australia used to be like – they are trying to recreate pockets of how it used to be like.
7 Where else but in Australia would you find a yacht club in the middle of the desert?
8 Water, wildlife and outback characters. (‘There is not just an explosion of water and wildlife but (of) outback characters as well.’)
9 In 2000 and 2004, when the floods were big enough for him to do this.
10 In 1976.