coast. It is the largest deposit of coral in the world. It is also the world's largest living structure. Australia's national sport is Cricket. Cricket is a little bit like baseball but it is played with eleven players and wickets. Australia won the Cricket World Cup in 1999 and 2003. Another favorite sport in Australia is Australian Rules Football. It is a little bit like soccer and rugby. Rugby and soccer are also extremely popular. Australia is also famous for the boomerang. The aborigines used the boomerang as a weapon. Today, children use it as a toy. it's got deadly spiders, snakes and sharks, but they don't stop people from coming here, never mind living here Australian food traditions have been shaped by those that have settled in Australia. Australian cuisine was based on traditional British food. Later food began to reflect the influences of Mediterranean and Asian cultures , introduced by many immigrants who arrived in Australia during this period
There are six states and two territories in Australia. It has a population of 20.3 million. The currency is Australian Dollars. Animals in Australia Sea Habitat · Just off the coast of North Easr Australia you will find the Great Barrier Reef. · Lots of different types of animals live here. Aboriginals · Native Australians are called Aborigines. · They were the first people to live in Australia. · One of their most famous hunting weapons is the boomerang. · The didgeridoo is an old musical instrument that the Aborigines play. Uluru · Uluru also called Ayers Rock is the most famous landmark in central Australia. · It rises 348 meters above the surrounding plains and the base measures 9 km. · The rock appears to change colour during sunset. The Outback · The Outback is an area of very dry land. In the Outback you will find red dust and red rocks. Not many people live in the Outback. Those who do live in the Outback
III Tools of Trade Batman is most often distinguished by the variety of equipment he has at his disposal. What he lacks in superpowers, he makes up with tools such as a grappling hook, explosives and smoke. The most memorable must be the batarang and the batmobile. Batarang is basically a throwing weapon that is shaped like a bat. Originally the batarang functioned much like a boomerang in that it returned to the thrower this is also the origin of the name, combination of boomerang and bat. Later, the batarang has become more like shuriken, an asian weapon that is also called the throwing star. Batarang has been a prominent weapon in nearly all major Batman television and movie adaptations. Batmobile is Batman's personal car. Originally it
Latin terms, Isac Newton and others physisists started to use English. Words like acid, electricity, gravity etc. were invented by them. Scientist gave us words like penis and vagina. In the 16'th century the British empire started to expand. First to the New World, America, the natives gave new words like canoe, cannibal etc. Also they went to places like India, Africa and Austlia. From India they got words like yoga etc. In Africa they picked up zombie, voodoo. In Australia nugget, boomerang, walk about. In the colonies the official language was English. And because of the large number of speakers and limited contact with British Isles, language started to change there. Soon there came new types of English like American- English, Chinglish, Hindi-English etc. Now there are only 1.5 billion native speakers of 7 billion humans and youngsters use English terms in their own languages in everyday speech.
bemmican, totem, papose, squaw, tomahoow, igloo, kayak, opossum, squash, mugwump, alaska, arizona, chesapeake bay, cheyenne, chicago, connecticut, dakota, cansas, massachusetts, michigan, mianiappolis, milwaukee, minnesota, mississippi, niagara, ohio, oklahoma, pontiac, seattle, wiaoming, jazz, blues, rythm and blues, rock and roll, jukes lang, cakewalk, jive, banana, jelly, jam, tote, vodoo, banjo, reggae, ska. AUSTRALIA- kangaroo, kookaburra, boomerang, dingo, coolibah, wallaby, koala, billabong, jumbuck, budgerigar, wombat, currawong, corroboree, barramundi, jackeroo. 4) Etymologycal doublets Wors that have the same etymological roots but have entered the language differently. One of two or more words derived from one source for exsample. Cattle-chattle, road-raid, guarrantee-warranty- guaranty. 5) Folk etymology First of all commonly held misunderstanding of the original word. Rosmarine- rosemary, somblind- sand-blind
dant parental control, and toward the role of adult, with all of its attendant rights and duties. Not surprisingly, adolescents tend to focus less on the duties than on the rights they feel they have as young adults. Not surprisingly, again, imposing tra- ditional parental authority at these times is often counterproductive; teenagers will sneak, scheme, and fight to resist such attempts at control. Nothing illustrates the boomerang quality of parental pressure on adolescent behavior quite so clearly as a phenomenon known as the "Romeo and Juliet effect." As we know, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet were the ill-fated Shakespearean characters whose love was doomed by a feud between their families. Defying all parental attempts to keep them apart, the teenagers won a lasting union in their tragic act of twin suicide, an ultimate assertion of free will.