QUT & Brisbane

Go to the QUT homepage and find answers to the following questions

QUT homepage

1. What does QUT stand for?

2. How many students study at QUT?

3. What is the percentage of overseas students at QUT?

4. How many faculties (学部) are there at QUT?

5. How many QUT campuses are there?

6. Where are they?

7. How far is the main campus from the city center?

8. Where is the campus you are going to study at?

9. What are "undergraduate students" and "postgraduate students" in Japanese?

10. How many semesters does QUT offer for normal undergraduate courses?

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1. What is the population of Brisbane?

2. What are the temperature ranges in summer and winter?

3. What kind of lifestyle do Brisbane people enjoy?

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4. What is the main transportation for travelling in Brisbane?

5. What is greater Brisbane?

6. What are the 2 main shopping malls in the city center?

Watch the video on Brisbane

1. What place in Japan has similar weather to Brisbane?

2. Brisbane is the "p............. capital" of Australia.

3. What is the name of the coast near Brisbane?

4. What facilities do parks in Brisbane have?

Watch the video on Lone Pine Sanctuary

5. Where is Lone Pine Sanctuary situated?

6. How many koalas live there?

7. What do koalas eat? a)Fish and chips b) grass c) eucalyptus leaves

8. What does the word koala mean?

9. What does the koala do in the day?

10. What do baby koalas eat? a)Fish and chips b) their mother's droppings (ふん) c) eucalyptus leaves

11. What other animals can you see at Lone Pine Sanctuary?

12. What does "kangeroo" mean?

13. How many species of kangeroo are there in Australia?



Map of Brisbane (PDF)

Transport Map of Brisbane (PDF)

Focus on Australia

Watch the video and answer the following questions

Section 1

1. When did the first Japanese come to Australia?
2. What jobs did they do?
3. Were Japan and Australia friends in the 1940s? Why/Why not?

Section 2

4. When did the British colonize Australia?
5. Who was living in Australia when the British arrived?

Section 3

6. Do you know the meaning of the Australian flag? Which country's flag is in the top left corner? What do the stars represent? Do you like the design?



Section 4

7. What does Australia buy (import) from other countries?
8. What does Australia sell (export) to other countries?
9. What Australian products have you bought or consumed?

Section 5

10. What is the largest state or territory in Australia by area?
11. What is the largest state or territory in Australia by population?
12. Which state or territory capital has the largest population?
13. Which state or territory capital has the smallest population?
14. Name 6 Australian cities.

Section 6

15. Which is the wettest city in Australia?
16. Which is the driest city in Australia?
17. Which is the coolest city in Australia?
18. Which is the hottest city in Australia?

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Australian Bureau of Meteorology

Section 7

19. What is the total number of students in Australia? (2001 figures)
20. What is the total number of schools in Australia? (2001 figures)
21. What is the total number of teachers in Australia? (2001 figures)

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Australian Bureau of Statistics

Section 8

22. What leisure activities are popular in Australia?
23. "The Ashes" is the name of the cricket series between England and Australia. Who holds the Ashes?
24. The 2000 Olympics were held in which Australian city?
25. How many teams are there in Australia's A-League soccer competition?

The Ashes


The 2000 Olympics

Australian A-League Soccer

Australia Video

Australia Video

Watch the video and answer the questions

1. What mistake did the High School student make?
2. Who were the original inhabitants of Australia?
3. Which country was Australia a colony of?
4. When did Australia become independent?
5. Which countries did immigrants come from after World War II?
6. Recently where have a lot of immigrants to Australia come from?
7. What economic relations have Japan and Australia got?
8. Which Australian cities did the Japanese bomb in World War II?
9. What products does Japan import from Australia?
10. How many Japanese tourists visited Australia in 1994?
11. What is the name of Australia’s most famous breed of sheep?
12. Why can a dry climate be good for sheep?
13. Which number is greater – the number of sheep in Australia or the population of Japan?
14. What materials are mined in Australia?
15. Which country is Australia’s largest trading partner?
16. What is the “symbol” of Australia according to the video?
17. In which part of the country do most Australians live? Why?
18. When did cyclone Tracy hit Darwin?
19. How can Australians in Sydney celebrate Christmas?
20. Which Japanese city is similar in area to Sydney?
21. How do students study at the “school of the air”?
22. What foreign languages do Australian students study?
23. What time does school finish?
24. What subjects does Alicia like?

Map of Australia

Map of Australia



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Source: travel yahoo

Answers

Lets Go Through the Answers

QLD = Queensland
WA = Western Australia SA = South Australia
NSW = New South Wales VIC = Victoria
TAS = Tasmania

Plus NT = Northern Territories abd Capital Territory.

Area: 7,686,850 sq km
Population: 20,090,437 (July 2005 estimate)
Capital city: Canberra
Highest Mountain: Mount Kosciusko: 2229 meters
Biggest city: Sydney approximately 4 million inhabitants
No. of universities: 40 >
Currency: Australian Dollar AUD
GDP: $30,700 (2004 estimate)
Life Expentancy: Male 77; Female 83
Infant mortality rate: 4.69 deaths/1,000 live births

Climate

1. arid
2. tropical
3. temperate
4. desert
5. subtropical

Australia Quiz

Look at the following websites to complete
the answers to the questions

1. How many States are there in Australia and what are their names?

2. What is the total land area of Australia?

3. What is the population of Australia?

4. What is the capital of Australia?

5. What is the highest mountain in Australia?

6. What is the biggest city?

7. How many universities are there in Australia?

8. What is the currency (money) in Australia?

9. What is the Gross Domestic Product per person (GDP)?: $30,700 (2004 estimate)

10. What is the life expentancy for men and women?

11. What is the infant mortality rate?

12. What is the climate (weather) like?

http://www.australia.com/

http://www.australia.or.jp/english/

en.wikipedia.org


http://news.bbc.co.uk/

http://www.about-australia.com/facts.htm

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/

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http://www.quia.com/quiz/126559.html

http://a4esl.org/q/h/9801/mg-australia.html

http://www.triv.net/html/Users9/u22592.shtml

http://www.pacificnet.net/

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