MY PURPOSE IN AUSTRALIA

MY PURPOSE IN AUSTRALIA


The Opera House



Sydney is one of the most exciting and beautiful destinations in the world today. To study English and know The House of the Opera would be my purposes by traveling there.

Australia has developed itself in less than 200 years from an island designated to lock away British convicts, to one of the most popular tourist destinations worldwide. A trip to Sidney will give me oportunities in various aspects: the studying of English language and having a musical and cultural experience at the same time.

The Sydney Opera House is one of the prides of the country and I want to know it. Located in a harbour, this city is absolutely beautiful and offers many things to do: attractions, restaurants, clubs and beaches. And of course, the oportunity to study and get a job.

Among the various options to travel and study, I would like to choose one: Australiante.

This is a kind of Enterprise which has schools of English language in many countries. Australiante itself makes the contacts for any kind of needings about traveling, for example airlines, visa, hotels, English courses, jobs and tourist destination.



THE WILD SWANS - Summary

THE WILD SWANS
By Hans Christian Andersen

Summary

Once upon a time, in a distant kingdom, a king, who had eleven sons and one daugther called Eliza, lived.

All of them were extremely happy together, until one day, the Queen died and the King got married again, but with  a wicked woman. This woman turned the eleven Princes into wild swans.

Eliza was very sad becuase she didn´t know what it had happened to her brothers. One day, looking to the ocean, she saw eleven swans flying and dropping beside her. Just when the sun went down, her eleven brothers stood beside her. They told her that the wicked stepmother had bewitched them: while sun shone, they stayed swans, but at sundown, they became men again.

So, all of them flew together to another country. One day Eliza had a dream: she dreamed about a fairy who came to her to say that Eliza herself could break the spell if she made shirts of nettles and threw them over the swans, but she must not speak while she was working on that.

She began to work and said nothing when her hands were wounded and her brothers asked her about the reason. The King of this country fell in love with her and wanted to marry her, but she said nothing.

Because of this "strange" attitude, people of this country thought she was a witch and wanted her to die, and almost she died by burning, but she was saved by her brothers.

In that moment, Princess Eliza had finished the eleven shirts of nettles and threw them over the swans, and her beloved brothers became men again and forever: the spell had been broken.

Then Eliza told the story of why she had been speechless so long.

From that moment on, all the people praised Eliza and also the King, her husband, who offerred a great party for her and for her eleven brothers who would never be swans again.

INTRODUCTION

"Studying in Australia" is the name of the new blog I´m going tho develop in my English course Level 4.
Australia is a beautiful country, full of opportunities for immigrants and people for working, living and studying. I´m very impressed with images of contrasting places in geography all over the country.

Let´s see together what I mean!





COUNTRY PROFILE



Australia location



COUNTRY PROFILE

Australia is a country comprising the mainland of the Oceania continent, the Island of Tasmania and numerous small islands.  It is the world´s sixth-largest country by total area.

Its official name is "Commonwealth of Australia".

Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the north; the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia to the north-east, and New Zealand to the south-east.






Australian flag

 Monetary unit: Australian dollar.

Area: 7.692.024 sq km

Official language: English.
Other languages: Chinese, Italian, Greek, Arabic, Vietnamese.

Ethnical information: Caucasian (92%)  Asian (7%)  Aboriginal and others (1%)

Religion: Protestant (27.4)   Catholic (25.8)   Others: Orthodox, Buddhist, Muslim

Total population: 22 million people



Capital City: Camberra (384.000 inhabitants)



Brisbane (1.970 million)

 Largest cities.


Sidney (4.429 million)



Melbourne (3.853 million)



Perth (1.599 million)

           




KIND OF GOVERNMENT  AND ECONOMY

As a Commonwealth of the United Kingdom, Australia´s head of state is the British monarc. It has a Governor-General, who represents Sovereign Queen as a symbolic image. Australia has also a Prime Minister. Its kind of Government is Federal Parliamentary Democracy.

Many Asutralians think the country  should end its ties to Britain and become a republic. In a vote in 1999, Australians decided against separating from the UK, but the debate continues.

Although Australia is rich  in natural resources and has a lot of fertile land, more than one third of the country is desert.

Australia is an important exporter of agricultural goods like wool, wheat, beef, fruit and wine.



mineral mine

The country is also rich in metals and is the world´s fourth largest producer of gold.
Other natural resources: bauxite, coal, iron, copper, tin, silver, uranium, nickel, mineral sands, zinc, diamonds, natural gas, petroleum.

ABOUT HISTORY AND CULTURE

ABOUT THE HISTORY

Aboriginal people arrived in Australia about 50.000 years ago from Asia across land bridges that were exposed when sea levels were lower. The hardy Aborigines had to learn how keeping alive among the harsh conditions of the outback.

Dutch explorers first landed in Australia in 1606, and the British began to settle there in 1788.  Many settlers were criminals sent to live there as a punishment..

For a short time, the newcomers lived peacefully with the Aboriginal people. But soon, fighting broke out over who owned the land.





Aboriginal people today

 In 1851, gold was discovered in Australia. A rush to find riches brought thousands of new immigrants, and by 1859 six separated colonies existed. In 1901, these colonies joined to form a British commonwealth.

PEOPLE  AND  CULTURE

Australia is one of the world´s most ethnically diverse nations. Nearly a quarter of the people who live in this country were born in other countries. They come from the United Kingdom and other European countries, but also from China, Vietnam, North Africa and the Middle East.

Australia´s warm, sunny climate and abundance of open spaces give the population a variety of expectations in activities outdoors.



diving

 



sailing



surfing



 The people are also passionate about sports, including swimming, surfing, sailing, tennis, soccer, cricket, rugby and other own invention in Australian football rules.




vegemite with bread

 

austalian open

Gastronomy in Australia is characterized by ingredients and dishes that show its historical and multicultural past: Aboriginal cooking, British and Irish cooking of the first European settlers, and Asian and Mediterranean cooking brought by immigrants after the First World War.





kangaroo steak

 

sea food



 


Pavlova





NATURE AND CONTRASTING GEOGRAPHY

NATURE  AND CONTRASTING GEOGRAPHY

Australia´s ecosystem is an unusual one because of its remote location. As a result, there are many animal species. The most famous ones are kangaroo and koala.

Australia has 516 national parks to protect its unique plants and animals.

Australia is home of many of the deadliest species of animals on planet: spiders and snakes.

There are also several types of forest: tropical, subtropical in the country.

The natural geography there is simply amazing, full of colour and contrast where visitors find a lot of options to visit and many activities to do.





Sidney Aquarium

 

Makepeace Island





Wave Rocks











  




 Great Barrier

 



Ayers Rock: the bigest monolite in the world

FAMOUS  PEOPLE

  





  



Hugh Jackman

 





Rusell Crowe





















Daniel Craig





Mel Gibson

 







Kate Blanchet

 






Movie




Nicole Kidman



Dame Joan Sutherland