Unit 1, Lesson 1: Burke and Wills: Across Australia

1. Make sure that you can pronounce all the target words (in red) correctly.

2. Scan the whole article for key information. (Exercise G: Short answer questions)

3. comprehension questions

• How is the landscape in the outback of Australia?
• Where did the expedition team head for?
  
• What problems did the expedition team have?
• Halfway to the destination, what was the team's decision for their partner, Wright?
• What happened in their return journey?
• Did Burke and Wills complete the jouney in the end?
• What reasons could explain the journey that was not so satisfactory?

4. Look up the words in the dictionary for more sentence contexts.

• turn ... into ...
• supplies
• halfway
• get along
  

5. usage: left (line 15) vs. left (line 20)

6. collocations

• turn ... into ... (line 4)
• leave for (line 15)
• follow orders (line 20)
  
• ahead of (line 23)
• half crazy from ... (line 45)

7. Grammar
Past perfect tense
The rest of the expedition had left the day before because they thought Burke must be dead.

8. Vocabulary: SpellingCity

9. Assignments:

• Complete all exercises (A, B, C, D, F, G)
• Use your dictionary to find more sentences for the key words, phrases, collocations shown above.