Cloze activity
Use these words to complete the following passage:
Akubras	barbeques	beer	bet	Bondi	
cake	coconut	corks	Cup	Done	
Drizabones	flies	footie	horse	g’day	
hello	Lamingtons	lunchtime	national	newspapers	
school	speedos	slip, slop, slap!	sweep	thongs	
3:30pm	tomato	Tuesday	two up	vegemite	
 “Studies of our multicultural world” - Focus on Australia
Lifestyle
When Australians meet each other they say  ‘______’.  It is ‘good day’ 
shortened and it means ______. In the weekend Australians play _______ with their mates or go and watch their favourite team play. Afterwards they go for a _____. Australians love swimming and like to swim at beaches. The most famous beach in Australia is _______  Beach in Sydney. People wear ‘cossies’ called ________. These days Australians are very aware of skin cancer so they use sun protection creams – they say ‘_______________’ as they apply the cream.
In Australia, sport and gambling are __________  pastimes. At every opportunity Australians play, watch and read about sport. On the first ________ in November each year a _______ race, the Melbourne _____, is held in Melbourne. Wherever people are, at home, the office, at school, at college, even on public transport, everyone stops what they are doing at about ______ to listen to or watch the race. The ___________ print the names of the horses in the race in a special format so that people can run a lucky dip, called a _______, to _____ on the race.
Australians love playing ________  which is a gambling game. This is  played in a circle. One person places two coins on a small piece of wood about the size of a 30 cm ruler and then tosses them into the air. People ______on how the coins will land, (two heads, two tails or one of  each).
Australians eat food cooked on ________, (called in Australia ‘barbies’). Prawns, steak, chops, sausages and fried onions, all served with ________  sauce, are favourites. A sausage sizzle is a common type of celebration barbie. ____________are Australia’s favourite cakes. They are cubes of sponge _____ covered in a cocoa icing and rolled in _______. No special occasion is complete without lamingtons. Children also take these cakes to _______ for recess snacks. At _________ they love to eat ________ sandwiches.
Australians wear broad brimmed hats with _______ dangling down to keep _______out of their eyes and mouths. When they’re not wearing those they wear ________. In summer they wear shorts, and ________ on their feet. When it rains Australians wear short or long coats called ___________. Australians like to wear brightly coloured clothes. A design style that Australians like was created by artist Ken ________.