Script 10 to exercise two, listen to the texts Australia and match the names of Australian animals with their characteristics.0:02
Firstly, Australia is big.0:16
It is the biggest island in the world.0:19
In fact, only five countries in the world are larger than Australia.0:23
Secondly, Australia is low and flat.0:30
It is hot and dry too.0:34
In the west and the center, the average temperature is often 35 degrees above zero in the summer months.0:37
In some parts of Australia it sometimes does not rain for years and a lot of it is empty.0:46
This enormous country has only about 17 million people and most of them live in the south and south east parts of the country.0:55
If you want to see extraordinary animals, birds and plants, Australia is a good place to go.1:05
The kangaroo is one Australian animal that everybody knows.1:12
The biggest of the 50 different kinds is is the red kangaroo.1:18
They can jump more than four metres and travel at 70km an hour.1:24
Kangaroos eat grass and leaves and live in groups about 12.1:31
Everyone loves the sleepy grey koalas.1:38
Like kangaroos, they have a kind of pocket on their fronts for their babies.1:42
It is called a pouch.1:49
Baby koalas spend the first six months of their lives in the pouch and after six months there, they ride on their mother's back.1:52
They live in eucalyptus trees, sleeping for 18 hours and eating one kilo of leaves each day.2:03
They drink almost nothing.2:13
The word koala means no water.2:17
In the seas and rivers of northern Australia you can find crocodiles that are five or six metres long.2:22
They eat fish, animals, kangaroos and sometimes people.2:30
Finally, two very strange animals, the echidna and the platypus.2:38
Their babies are born from eggs but drink milk from their mothers.2:47
No other animals in the world do this.2:54
The echidna eats ants, which it catches with its long, fast tongue.2:58
The platypus has a wide bill like a duck's and wide flat tail.3:05
It swims well, but it can only stay underwater for a few minutes and it shuts its eyes and ears first.3:12
The dingo is Australia's native dog.3:24
It's thought to have arrived in Australia around 6,000 years ago and was domesticated by aboriginal people.3:28
It differs from the domestic dog in that it howls rather than barks and breeds only once a year rather than two.3:37
There are more than 800 kinds of birds in Australia.3:48
The emu, which is 2 meters tall, is the second largest bird in the world.3:53
It cannot fly at all, but it can run at 50 kilometres an hour.3:58
Then there is the kookaburra, whose cry sounds like someone laughing.4:05
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