Englisch – Klasse 9 · Unit 1
Australia
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Everything for Unit 1 – our topic is Australia. Start with the Grammar Check-up, then choose a topic.
Grammar Check-up
Find out what you already know: tenses, if-clauses, reflexive pronouns, passive voice and participle constructions, from easy to challenging. No solutions shown – test format.
Go to check-up →Vegemite Review
Step 1: Try Vegemite, give it stars and write a short review. Step 2: Read the story of Vegemite and revise all five tenses – with words from Vocab Checks 1 & 2, flashcards and feedback.
Start →Text Types
Australia’s social media ban for under-16s: headlines and charts to talk about, then six texts – advert, open letter, personal letter, infographic, website, testimony – to match, sort and read.
Start →used to
Growing up in the Outback: find used to in Lily’s story about the School of the Air, learn the rules, negatives and questions – then build and write your own sentences.
Start →Venomous Creatures in Australia
Snakes, spiders, jellyfish – is Australia really so dangerous? Guess and reveal surprising facts, talk about them with your partner, then read the text on page 14 in your book and answer the questions on the worksheet.
Start →The didgeridoo
Learn about Australia’s oldest sound: read the text, find words, match headings, true/false – then revise tenses, used to, word families and keyword transformation.
Start →Aussie English
Watch a funny TV interview from Australia and find out what happened. Put the story in order, learn Aussie words like mate and bloke and retell the story.
Start →Stay safe Down Under!
Sun, Outback and beach safety: reading, mediation, tenses and used to, text types, speaking – plus vocab practice (pages 147–150), word families and keyword transformation. Practise what is still difficult for you.
Start →used to vs. be used to
used to go or be used to going? Find both forms in Jarrah’s story, work out the rules, practise step by step (Round 1: Simple Present, Round 2: other tenses) – then play Boomerang Catch! 🪃
Start →Increasing your vocabulary
Collocations (do, go, play), synonyms and antonyms, sports idioms – plus tips, mind maps, word lists and AI prompts to build your vocabulary outside school.
Start →Coast to Coast
A boy on the beach in Darwin: warm-up, reading in your book, tasks on the story and the new words – and what happens next?
Start →Vocab Checks
One vocab check per date, each with its book page and word range – scan the QR code, answer the tasks, then submit to see the solutions.
Go to Vocab Checks →Vocab Practice
All the words from Unit 1, one card at a time: meanings, synonyms, opposites and word forms. Wrong words come back more often – and at the end you get tips on what to practise.
Start →Use of English
Surf lifesavers and explorers in Australia: Word Families (help, suggest, secret, explain, illegal, employ, explore, immediate, recover, warn, nerve), tricky words like people/peoples, sheep, fish – and your first steps in Keyword Transformation.
Start →✅ My revision plan for the test on 29 October
Tick what you have done – your ticks are saved on this device.
- Grammar Check-up: do it again and compare with my first try
- Vocab Checks: learn the words from the Unit 1 checks
- Vegemite Review: tenses text – Level 1 without help, then check my feedback
- Vegemite Review: learn the flashcards (signal words, adverbs)
- Text Types: advert, open letter, personal letter, infographic, website, testimony
- used to: rules, negatives and questions – all tasks correct
- Use of English: Word Families (flip the cards!) and Tricky Words
- Use of English: Keyword Transformation
- Look at my mistakes again and do the tasks one more time
💡 Don’t revise everything the night before! Do a little every day.