Vocabulary and Speech Exercises

І. Read the following transcriptions. Write them in words and give their Ukrainian equivalents.

['pxpjVq'njH'gInI]; ['Jst'tJmL]; ["IndqV'nJzIq]; ['sPlqmqn'aIlqndz]; ["vxnV'RtH]; ['njH"kxlI'dqVnIq]; ['njH'zJlqnd]; ['njHsaVT'weIlz]; ['kwJnzlqnd]; [txz'meInIq]; ["Rrq'fHrq'sJ]; ['nLzqn'terItqrI]; [pq'sIfIk'qVSn]; ['IndIqn'qVSn]; [Gq'pxn]; ['kxnbqrq]; ['sIdnI]; ['melbqn].

II. Match the word-combinations with their translation.

1. East Timor a. Верховний суд Австралії

2. Queen of Australia b. Рада федерації

3. House of Representatives с. Південний Тимор

4. Federal Council d. королева Австралії

5. Australian Capital Territory e. генерал-губернатор

6. High Court of Australia f. прем’єр-міністр

7. Minister of State g. Територія столиці Австралії

8. Federal Government h. Палата Представників

9. Governor-General i. державний міністр

10.Prime Minister j. федеральний уряд

III. Fill in the gaps with the words given in brackets.

1. Australia is an enormous nation in the Southern Hemisphere, comprising its own … .

2. It covers 7,741,200 sq km, making it nearly twice as large as the state of Alaska, and the sixth-largest … on the Earth.

3. Australia is … near New Zealand, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and a number of Polynesian island nations.

4. Australia was first … by people at least 45,000 years ago, with some research suggesting the date to be closer to 70,000 years ago.

5. Europeans first definitively sighted Australia at the … of the 17^th century.

6. A British penal colony (колонія для кримінальних злочинців) was set up at Port Jackson (what is now Sydney) in 1788, and about 161,000 transported English … were settled there.

7. Free … and former prisoners established six colonies: New South Wales (1786), Tasmania (then Van Diemen’s Land) (1825), Western Australia (1829), South Australia (1834), Victoria (1851), and Queensland (1859).

8. At the dawn of the 20^th century the continent was … together as the Commonwealth of Australia, under the British crown.

(Located, nation, settlers, beginning, continent, prisoners, joined, settled)

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