Teacher’s notes
Suggested activities
1.	Class discussion
When discussing the completed cloze make, or elicit from the class, the following points:
-just as not all Australians do the things outlined in Focus on Australia, not all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, Chinese people, Greek people etc, do the things commonly listed in outlines about their cultural heritage and contemporary lives that are commonly presented in such activities.
-often there is more diversity to be found among the members of a particular cultural or linguistic group than there is between the group and other groups.
2.	Grammatical features
Grammatical features of the language used when generalising include:
modality- 	no qualifiers
tense-		 habitual (or general) tense 
3.	Joint construction
Discuss adverbial clines and add modifiers to the text where appropriate. Eg
frequency- 	never, seldom, sometimes, often usually, always
quantity- 	no, a few, some, many, most, all
Additional strategies
In classes with students from culturally diverse backgrounds it may be appropriate to encourage students from similar backgrounds to work together. This may highlight(see above) that often there is more diversity to be found among the members of a particular cultural or linguistic group than there is between the group and other groups.
There are many cultural book series My home in, A visit to, I come from, etc which lend themselves to this exercise.  

Cloze answer sheet
“Studies of our multicultural world “
Focus on Australia
Lifestyle
When Australians meet each other they say ‘g’day’.  It is ‘good day’ 
shortened and it means hello.
On the weekend, Australians play footie with their mates or go and watch their favourite team play. Afterwards they go for a beer. Australians love swimming and like to swim at beaches. The most famous beach in Australia is Bondi Beach in Sydney. People wear ‘cossies’ called speedos. These days Australians are very aware of skin cancer so they use sun protection creams – they say ‘slip, slop slap!’ as they apply the cream..
In Australia, sport and gambling are national pastimes. At every opportunity Australians play, watch and read about sport. On the first Tuesday in November each year a horse race, the Melbourne Cup, 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 3:30 pm to listen to or watch the race. The newspapers print the names of the horses in the race in a special format so that people can run a lucky dip, called a sweep, to bet on the race.
Australians love playing two up 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 bet on how the coins will land, (two heads, two tails or one of each).
Australians eat food cooked on barbeques, (called in Australia ‘barbies’). Steak, chops, sausages and fried onions, all served with tomato sauce, are favourites. A sausage sizzle is a common type of celebration barbie. Lamingtons are Australia’s favourite cakes. They are cubes of sponge cake covered in a cocoa icing and rolled in coconut. No special occasion is complete without lamingtons. Children also take these cakes to school for recess snacks. At Easter Australians eat hot cross buns and Easter eggs.
Australians wear broad brimmed hats with corks dangling down to keep flies out of their eyes and mouths. When they’re not wearing those they wear Akubras. In summer they wear shorts, and thongs on their feet. When it rains Australians wear short or long coats called ‘Drizabones’. Australians like to wear brightly coloured clothes. A style that Australians like was created by artist Ken Done.