Слайд 1A Few Words about Australia
Author Shilkin Vasily
Tver, school 45
Teacher: Emelyanova
Elena
Mikhailovna
Слайд 3How Can We Get to Australia?
The total distance from Moscow,
Russia to Sydney, Australia is 9,001 miles. This is equivalent
to 14,486 kilometers or 7,822 nautical miles.
Moscow
Sydney
Слайд 4
Your travel direction from Moscow to Sydney is East (93
degrees from North). Travel Time: 18 hours by plane.
Слайд 5Time difference
When you are in Sydney, subtract:
■ 1
hour to find local time in Tokyo
■ 2 hours- in
Hong Kong
■ 9 hours- in Paris
■ 10 hours- in London
■ 15 hours- in New York
■ 18 hours- in San Francisco
Слайд 6 During your flight to Sydney you will stop at Tokyo,
Singapore, Seoul, Hong Kong or Bangkok and at last arrive
at Sydney airport.
Слайд 7GEOGRAPHY
Australia is considered to be the smallest of seven continents
and the sixth biggest state. Australia is situated between the
South Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. It is made up of two islands.
Слайд 8 Australia is extremely close to other island nations. To the
north are: Papa New Guinea, Indonesia and part of Malaysia.
Additional to the north are the Philippines and Asian mainland. Australian land mass of nearly 7.7 million km² makes it the sixth largest country in area after Russia, Canada, China, the United States and Brazil.
Sydney
The biggest cities
Brisbane
Слайд 11the Great Barrier Reef
the Harbor bridge
the Blue Mountains
Sightseeing
Ayers
rock
Слайд 12Flora and fauna
Australia is a land of many endemic animals
and birds.
Endemic is an animal which can not be found
anywhere else in the world.
The main native plants of Australia are acacia, eucalyptus, mimosa, palm, fern and cedar.
Australia is sometimes called “Kangarooland”.
The kangaroo and the emu are on the coat of arms of Australia.
Слайд 13Dingo
Koala
Brush-tailed possum
Wombat
Animals
Emu
Слайд 14National parks
Australia has over 500 national parks. Over 28
million hectares of land is designated as national park-land, accounting
for almost four per cent of Australia's land areas. In addition, a further six per cent of Australia is protected and includes state forests, nature parks and conservation reserves.
Слайд 15Australia is the flattest and (after Antarctica) the driest of
conti-nents. Huge areas of land are so dry that they
are uninhabited. There are rainforests and vast plains in the north, snowfields in the south east, desert in the centre and fertile croplands in the east, south and south west. About one third of the country lies in the tropics.
Слайд 16Mountain ranges run from north to south along the east
coast, reaching their highest point in Mount Kosciusko (7,308 ft;
2,228 m).
The Great Barrier Reef, extending about 1,245 miles, lies along the north-east coast.
Слайд 17Русско-английский словарь «Животного мира Австралии»
Б
Белка-летяга
sugar glider
Буйвол водяной
water buffalo
Большая белая акула great white shark
wallaby
Венценосный голубь
regent bowerbird
Волнистый попугай budgerigar
Вомбат wombat
blue whale
Д
Динго
dingo
Е
Ехидна spiny anteater
З
Зимородок-хохотун kookaburra
cockatoo
Кенгуру
kangaroo
Коала koala
Крокодил crocodile
rat
Кистохвостый поссум brush-tailed possum
Казуар cassowary
Л
Летучая мышь bat
Лирохвост lyrebird
numbat
П
Плащеносная ящерица
frilled lizard
С
Сумчатая куница quoll overview
Т
Тасманский дьявол Tasmanian devil
platypus
Х
Хантсман паук huntsman spider
Ч
Чёрный лебедь black swan
Э
Эму emu