Lake Eyre – one of the wonders of the world – exercise 1
After watching this video and listening to what is said about this phenomenon, can you link the words below with what is said about them? There are no questions about the animals because the speakers do not pronounce the mammals’ names very clearly*. The questions go up to the point when there is talk of holding a sailing regatta.
* Mammals such as the bilby (formerly the greater bilby, but known now as the bilby since the lesser bilby became extinct).
Exercise 1
1 How many times in this video do you hear the word ‘outback’?
2 How is the idea conveyed that the long dry period has ended?
3 What is pointed out as being strange about the fact that there have only been 6 millilitres (6mls) of rain here in the last 5 months?
4 What is the size of the largest non-government protected area in Australia?
5 What two phrases indicate the reporter’s disbelief or shock?
6 What are the conservationists trying to recapture or recreate?
7 What is the rhetorical question asked that means you would never find this anywhere else?
8 What 3 things ‘explode’ into existence?
9 In what two recent years did Bob spend weeks sailing on ‘the biggest lake in the country’?
10 Someone speaks of a strong chance there may be a regatta this year, if the floods are sufficient for the lake to fill. When was the last regatta?