Australia — Unit 1

say

year

here

each

it’s

I’ll

we’ll

fifth

he’s

don’t

island

swan

seventh

fourth

border

you’ll

you’re

anchor

pastime

Sydney

mainland

we’re

who’s

they’re

Brisbane

governor New South Wales

Queensland

Victoria

Melbourne

Theme: Australia, You’re Standing in it — Dictation Each year I visit the city. The swans went back to the island for the fourth time. Do you know who’s the governor of Victoria?

ay ear each ate

Rhyming Words

Write the expanded form.

I’ll ________________________ don’t _______________________

we’ll _______________________ you’ll ______________________

he’s _______________________ we’re ______________________

Squeeze word Find 6 list words. it’seventhe’sayear

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Choose and circle the correct words.

1. I think (its / it’s) Jessica’s birthday today.

2. He said, (his / he’s) going to the park.

3. (Whose / who’s) that man?

4. (You’re / your) going camping tomorrow.

5. “(Who’s / whose) book is this?” asked the teacher.

6. Please put (your/you're) homework over (their / there / they’re).

7. (There / their / they’re) friend was sick so they took her home.

8. (They’re / there / their) going to the movies tomorrow.

Change one letter to match the meaning. e.g. city - to feel sorry - pity.

year - to be afraid - __ __ __ __

say - to give money for something - __ __ __

here - an animal related to a rabbit - __ __ __ __

Find smaller words in these words.

year here fourth

don’t island fifth

Write 2 sentences about where in Australia you live.

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Rule: Contractions - a combination of two words, using letters from both and an apostrophe.

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Draw a map of NSW Add the places in the list. Add another 10 places you would visit to the map. Use an Atlas.

Ordinals Change these numbers in to ordinals. e.g. two = 2nd/ second.

1. four = __________________ 7. five = __________________

2. nine = __________________ 8. twelve = ________________

3. twenty one = _____________ _________________________

4. fifty five = _______________ _________________________

5. seventeen = _____________ _________________________

6. thirty nine = ______________ _________________________

Lismore

Broken Hill

Sydney

Bathurst

Cobar

Write three funny sentences about a place in New South Wales.

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Use a word from the box to answer the questions.

1. The capital of NSW _______________

2. Land surrounded by water. _____________

3. Place after third. _______________

4. Brisbane is the capital of? _______________

5. Graceful bird. ________________

Queensland Sydney fourth island swan

Answer the questions then find the answer in the grid.

1. Capital of Victoria. _________________

2. Used on boats. ________________

3. Land surrounded by water. ________________

4. A graceful bird. ______________

5. Represents the queen. ________________

6. The edge of two states. ________________

a n c h o r i v b o r d e r o a r

n o m e l b o u r n e s w a n r e

g o v e r n o r t i s l a n d h c

How many words can you make from the letters in BRISBANE? ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ 8 = good, 12 = very good, 16 or more = excellent.

Writing Ideas Plan a holiday around Australia. Write a description of some of the places you would visit.

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May

hope

June

April

trip

sigh

high

night

right

drive

visit

plains

behind

picture

reached

thigh

highest

coast

lighting

fighting

capital

Pacific

buried

brightly

tightly

tablelands

carriage

agriculture

Wangaratta

Adelaide

Theme: Australia, You’re Standing in it — Dictation April, May or June are the right months to go on a trip. We reached the coast right behind the others. Is Adelaide near the Tablelands or the Pacific?

Missing Letters The first two letters of each word are missing.

__ __pe __ __ip __ __ive __ __ril

__ __ne __ __sit

Missing Vowels Add in the missing vowels.

h__gh n__ght h__p__

__pr__l r__ght J__n__

} igh words

h r

n igh

m

s s ight

th t

l

ight words

} Unjumble these words.

pohe prAli yaM

nuJe gish ignth

igrht ersedt dniheb

Tricky Triangles - add letters to match the clues.

What am I? I have two vowels. I am a girl’s name. I am a month. I start with the first letter of the alphabet. I am ________________ (How many clues did it take you to solve the What am I? ___)

To tear

A journey

To take off

You do this on a chair. To go and see

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Rule: igh words


Capital Cities Match the Capital cities to their correct state or territory (draw a line between the state and the capital).

Syllables - Put these words into the correct syllable groups. agriculture sigh May June highest West high hope behind

Tablelands Wangaratta Adelaide picture reached

Writing Ideas Write a letter to someone in Adelaide describing you and where you live.

New South Wales Perth Australian Capital Territory Melbourne

Western Australia Sydney South Australia Adelaide

Queensland Hobart Victoria Brisbane

Tasmania Darwin Northern Territory Canberra

Abbreviations (To make words shorter or briefer). Write the abbreviation for these states and Territories. South Australia Northern Territory

Tasmania Australian Capital Territory

Queensland New South Wales

Victoria Western Australia

One syllable Two syllables Three or more

Letter In Add a letter to each of these words, then rearrange the letters to spell out six list words. The letters to be added are: b, f, g, p, s, c.

latcai acipci tcoa

druie iuetpr thyitl

Write words to match the meanings.

Capital city of South Australia

Pulled by a horse

Plateau

Farming

Town in Victoria

Cross out all of the letters that have been used twice to spell a city in Australia.

u a z b e u y z i f t c e b s w y x d c m n s x m r t f ___________________________________________________


map

key

son

opal

site

edge

ridge

bridge

knife

lodge

ledge

fridge

mistaken

badge

dodge

tongue

country

piece

movable

porridge

beautiful

Canberra

Brewarrina

Nullarbor

Tasmania

Lachlan

waratah

plateau

Macquarie

Innisfail

Theme: Australia, You’re Standing in it — Dictation The key on the map took us to the bridge near the opal mine. We went to the country to find a piece of a broken badge. Who discovered Tasmania? Was it Tasman or Lachlan?

Illustrate

map key knife bridge

Unjumble

alpo nos ribdge gdbae

nifek golde dege rfidge

These words have been written without the vowels. Write them correctly in the space below.

knf brdg ldg ky

pl st mp mstkn


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Rule: dge only follows a short vowel

Write sentences for 3 of them.

1. _______________________________________________________

2. _______________________________________________________

3. _______________________________________________________

Write 5 words with a silent d.


Word Find

1. A baby boy ____ 2. Shiny stone ____ 3. Used to open a lock

______ 4. _____ and fork 5. Used to cross a river

_________ 6. Two words rhyming with

hedge _______ ________

s o n s t e

o p a l a f

n l d c b i

e d g e e n

b r i s t k

b r i d g e

l e d g e y

peice piece pieace

beautiful bewitful baeutiful

Brewarrina Breewarna Brewarina

nife knif knife

Macqurie Macqarie Macquarie

Circle the correct spelling. Write it correctly.

Use all the letters in the box once to make 8 list words.

Writing Ideas Write a travel brochure for tourists going to Canberra or Tasmania.

dge words To duck

Pinned on your clothes

A holiday house in the snow

A narrow shelf on a cliff / building

An edge (long raised strip)

1. c__ __ __ __ __ __

2. p__ __ __ __

3. t__ __ __ __ __

4. d__ __ __ __

5. p__ __ __ __ __ __ __

6. l__ __ __ __ __ __

7. C__ __ __ __ __ __ __

cccc oooo eeeeee uu rrrrr ttt b pp y ddd

nnnn ggg ll aaaa h ii

Fit the words into the puzzle.

Canberra beautiful Nullarbor plateau porridge piece

Illustrate

Waratah Lachlan Macquarie A plateau


ago

art

give

care

hate

skate

smoke

snake

thick

water

guess

Perth

giving

caring

hating

skating

balance

plentiful

disappear

Indian

arriving

Darling

Darwin

Hobart

mountain

territory

geographic

Kalgoorlie

Torres Strait

Kosciuszko

Theme: Australia, You’re Standing in it —Dictation Long ago I saw some art work of a snake in thick smoke. In Perth the water is plentiful. The territory on the mountain near Kalgoorlie was a geographic disaster.

Rhyming Words Write words that rhyme with the syllable on the first line.

art are ate ake

Add ing to these words. drive __________________

give _________________ smoke _________________

care _________________ dodge _________________

hate _________________ whistle _________________

skate ________________ rove ___________________

Fill in the missing words.

1. Drink lots of ________ everyday.

2. I like to paint during ________ lessons.

3. The dinosaurs lived a long time _______ .

4. The __________ was lying in the grass.

5. My nan lives in _________ in WA.

6. Always ___________ for your pets.

Use the letter pairs to make two words.

dr ha i te ve

gi ca ve re

lo gi vi vi ng ng


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Rule: When a word ends in e drop the e before adding ing. e.g. love = loving


Writing Ideas Write a list of Australia’s most dangerous snakes and reptiles.

Find the root word. e.g. Loving - root word = love

caring smoking

skating roving

whistling giving

hating taking

Proofreading Circle the mistakes and then write them correctly below. The loveing girl watched the snak slide through the smok. It desapeared into the territary on the moutain. It went to a geograpic spot near Kalgolie. 1. 2.

3. 4.

5. 6.

7. 8.

How many words of three or more letters can you make from the letters in the box? What word uses all of the letters? ____________________

d p i

s e a

a p r

8 = good 12 = very good 15 = excellent

These jumbled words have an extra letter. Unjumble the words and write the extra letter in the box. Unjumble the extra letters to spell a list word.

garDlrni Idbnain

erhtriorty atDirwn

iardosapep alcbeana

Put these words into the correct boxes. Kalgoorlie, Darling, Darwin, Indian, plentiful, mountain, balance, disappear

Two syllables Three syllables

Circle the odd one out. Darling Macquarie Murray Indian Darwin Hobart Wellington Perth fauna mountain tablelands plateau

Clue A Capital City.


Theme: Australia, You’re Standing in it — Dictation Each year, in June, we’ll visit the city. You’ll see a swan on the island near the coast unless you are mistaken. The Governor of Queensland lives in Brisbane and he’s visiting Perth soon although he comes from Brewarrina.

Jun Joon June

nife knif knife

water woter watter

peice piece pease

Circle the correct spelling and write it out.

Put these words into the correct word family. porridge we’ll right who’s loving high he’s thigh don’t lodge edge bridge they’re fridge it’s sigh

giving caring hating skating

Contractions igh words Silent d Adding ing

7th

Name each picture

Word Circle Each word ends with an e.

Word Squeeze Apriloveathicknifeachighatedge

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1. A legless reptile.

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4. A type of holiday house.

6. This comes from a fire.

5. You do this in a car.

2. Used for cutting.

3. Found on a cliff.

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Missing letter Using words from lists 1 to 4 complete these words.

__ __ate isl__ __ __ Syd__ __ __ Pac__ __ __ __

s__n bad__ __ w__t__r bal__ __ __ __

A black swan A map of Tasmania

Sydney Harbour Bridge

A sharp knife

Illustrate

tablelands Queensland island

country Innisfail pastime

disappear Nevertire carriage

Smaller words Find and write smaller words below these list words. Expand the contractions

1. you’re I will

2. he’s we will

3. it’s you will

4. we’re who is

5. don’t they are

Abbreviate

Anagrams rat _____ ate ______ yam ________ coats ___________

thing _________ taste ___________

Writing Ideas Design a poster to send overseas showing one of Australia’s best tourist attractions.

Wordsearch Find these words.

fourth state court thick water Darling Hobart city anchor high capital coast may ridge piece opal

a n c h o r a h w

c o a s t z t o a

a f o u r t h b t

p i e c e s i a e

i c o u r t c r r

t c i t y a k t o

a h i g h t i m p

l r i d g e t a a

D a r l i n g y l


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