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Walkabout James Vance Marshall
About the author James Vance Marshall wrote Walkabout in the 1950s. He was born in 1924 and lives in Surrey, England. A film adaptation of Walkabout was made by the director Nicholas Roeg in 1971 and the photograph on the front cover of the book is taken from this film.
Summary The story is about the changing relationships between the two American children and an Aboriginal boy as they make their way through the Australian desert. Chapter 1: Two American children, Mary and Peter go to visit their uncle, Keith, in Adelaide. On their way they get lost in the Australian outback after a plane crash. They don’t know where to go and how to find food in the desert. At night, strange animals are interested in them but don’t attack them. On the following day, they climb a mountain and Mary, the elder child, realises they are far away from the sea. Chapter 2: The next day, as the children are gathering food, they discover that a sixteen-year-old Aboriginal boy is watching them. Mary is afraid of the black boy because of her South Carolina upbringing and because the boy is naked. However, Peter soon becomes friends with him when he starts sneezing and the bush boy copies the sounds he makes. Talking with their hands, the children ask the boy to take them to a place where there is food and water. Chapter 3: The bush boy shows them a place where there is water, makes a fire and cooks for them. Peter follows the boy everywhere and Mary starts feeling jealous because she cannot control Peter. The following day Mary finds Peter playing with the bush boy with no clothes on. She orders c Pearson Education Limited 2008
him to dress but she only gets him to wear his trousers. The bush boy teaches Peter to make a fire, cook and dance around it. The boy can sense that Mary is afraid of him but he thinks it is because she can see his imminent death. He is on his walkabout, the six-month journey into the desert that each boy of his tribe must make alone in order to pass from childhood to manhood. Suddenly, the bush boy misunderstands Peter’s look and thinks he can also see his death. As the boy is about to leave, Peter stops him and the boy decides to stay. Chapter 4: The bush boy knows that he has to walk into the desert and take the children to a safe place before he leaves them on their own. After a day’s walk, they find a river and decide to stay the night near it. They walk for days across the desert. Peter sneezes all day because of the cold he has. The bush boy doesn’t understand what sneezing means until he sneezes for the first time in his life. They decide to stop to let Peter rest and recover from his cold. The next day Peter feels better and the boy teaches him to catch fish. After eating the fish, the boy starts dancing around the fire. Suddenly the boy can’t stop sneezing and starts feeling cold. He has caught Peter’s cold. That night the bush boy can’t sleep and the next morning he can’t find the strength to get up. When Peter insists that they continue their journey, the boy finally stands up and guides them across the Australian desert. The next day, the boy is very ill and decides to ask Mary for help just when she is swimming naked in the river. Mary gets very scared and shouts at him so the boy decides to die on his own. Mary wants to leave but when Peter finds the bush boy agonising under a tree he refuses to go with her. Mary refuses get near the bush boy while the bush boy points Peter the way they have to go. Finally Mary gets worried when Peter tells her that the boy is dying. She holds the boy’s head in her hands, the boy looks at her, smiles and dies leaving Mary and Peter alone once more. Mary sees how stupid she has been and realises that in this world we are all one. Chapter 5: Peter and Mary make the bush boy’s death bed and leave the place. The bush boy has already taught the children the survival skills they need to live in the desert and they can find food and water on their own. As they walk, the desert slowly disappears. They find trees and a baby koala pulls Mary’s clothes. This time Mary is happy not to be wearing clothes. The children come across an Aboriginal family that shows them the way to their world by drawing a map on the ground. Before they reach their Walkabout - Teacher’s notes
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Walkabout destination, Mary, almost regretting that they have to return to their own world, praises the beauty of the place, while Peter suggests going home.
Background and themes
Death: Exposure to the common cold, an illness unknown amongst the bush boy’s people and he has no natural resistance, coupled with his misinterpretation of Mary’s reaction to him, causes the bush boy to stop caring for himself. The walkabout ends in death for the bush boy.
Walkabout is a story of contrasts – the contrast between the three children’s experience of life:
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Civilisation vs. lack of civilisation: Technology lets the children down, when the plane crashes, and they are left to face the harsh realities of the natural world from which they have been protected. The Aboriginal boy has been brought up in the bush. He is in harmony with nature and is able to survive in its harsh conditions. As a fellow human being, but one with the skills needed to survive, he acts as a bridge between the children and the bush. Age: Peter is young enough to accept things at face value. He hasn’t yet acquired the preconceptions that being brought up in the racist society of 1950s South Carolina has given his sister. As a result, he is better equipped than her to survive the clash of cultures. Epiphany: After the bush boy’s death, Mary comes to realise that she has been wrong and that the world is one, not divided into black and white. As a result of this, she is able to look at the world with different eyes and praise its beauty. Rite of passage: The bush boy’s walkabout is a ritual journey: his tribe have sent him out alone, but with the skills he needs to survive. He interrupts his walkabout, which is supposed to be performed alone, to rescue the children. However, in so doing he loses his own life. Mary and Peter, on the other hand, have also been sent on a journey, but when their plane crashes, their journey turns into a form of walkabout and one which they have not been provided with the survival skills needed to undertake. Nevertheless, with the help of the bush boy they do survive and in the process they gain some maturity. Peter becomes more self-sufficient, more responsible and less dependent on his sister. The greatest change, however, is in Mary. She is initially self-conscious about her body and disapproving of the nakedness of the boys. She comes to see the bush boy’s friendliness and openness as a sexual threat. However, with the help of the bush boy she becomes less inhibited, able to walk around naked without embarrassment, and also gains an appreciation of the natural world around her.
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Before reading 1 Guess and pair work: In pairs, have students look at the cover and: a Describe the picture: What do you see on the cover? How old do you think the boy is? Where do you think the story takes place? b Read the title: What is a ‘walkabout’? 2 Research: Ask students to bring a map of Australia and have them colour with yellow the Great Australian desert and find Adelaide.
Introduction While reading 3 Discuss: Have students talk about the walkabout. a Ask students to read the first paragraph of the Introduction and circle the words used to talk about the Aboriginals. What is a man-child? What do the Aboriginals do when a child is sixteen? Do you have any celebration when you turn sixteen? b In pairs have students write, in their own words, a definition for ‘walkabout’. 4 Research: Have students look for information about the animals mentioned on page 6 and ask them to complete this chart: Animal
What I want to know
What I learned
Chapter 1 While reading 5 Read carefully and write: Have students re-read the first paragraph of page 1 and write an article of the plane crash with the following heading: PLANE CRASHES, NO SURVIVORS. 6 Role play: Have students re-read the second paragraph of page 1. Uncle Keith has to tell Mary and Peter’s mother about the plane crash. In pairs, have them act out the telephone conversation. 7 Discuss: Have students talk about being lost in the desert. What would you do if you were Peter and Mary? How would you find food or water? 8 Read carefully and write: Mary can’t sleep the first night they spend in the desert. Have students re-read the paragraph that starts ‘Peter was quiet again …’ on page 3 and write what Mary is thinking about. Walkabout - Teacher’s notes of 3
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Walkabout 9 Read carefully and artwork: Have students re-read the paragraph that starts with ‘In the east …’ on page 3 and then draw what is described in the paragraph. 10 Read carefully and write: Have students read page 4 and describe the children from the kookaburra’s point of view.
After reading 11 Read carefully and write: Have students complete the following table about page 1: Who?
Where?
What happened?
Why?
12 Artwork and write: Mary and Peter’s parents don’t think the children are dead. Have students draw missing posters for Mary and Peter. 13 Write: Mary thinks Peter doesn’t understand the problems (page 6). Have students write an event in Chapter 1 from Peter’s point of view and show how much he understands and how much he doesn’t.
Chapters 2–3 While reading 14 Research: On page 12, we are told that ‘At home in Charleston, South Carolina, no black person came near white people.’ Have students find information about how blacks were treated in South Carolina before the 1950s, when the Walkabout was written. 15 Pair work: Peter talks to the bush boy with gestures. Have students play Peter and the bush boy and ask each other things using mimicry. 16 Discuss: Have students talk about languages. Have you ever gone to another country when nobody spoke your language? How did you feel? 17 Discuss: Have students talk about clothes. The bush boy feels Peter’s clothes. Why do people of different places wear different clothes?
After reading 18 Write and group work: Divide students into three groups. Group 1 will write Mary’s thoughts about the bush boy. Group 2 will write Peter’s thoughts about the bush boy. Group 3 will write the bush boy’s thoughts about Mary and Peter. Once they finish, have students read their character’s thoughts aloud. 19 Guess: Mary and Peter don’t know if they are going to find Adelaide and the bush boy thinks Mary can see his death. Ask students to predict what will happen: What will happen to the three children?
Chapter 4 While reading 20 Guess: Mary neither goes near the bush boy nor looks at him. Have students discuss about this: Is Mary afraid of, angry at or in love with the bush boy? 21 Write: The children walked the next day, and the next day, and the day after that. Have students write what happened during the three days as three separate diary entries. The diary entries can be written from any of the character’s point of view. 22 Discuss: Have students talk about having a cold. How do you feel when you have a cold? Do you feel like walking? How would you feel if you were to cross a desert? 23 Discuss: The mugga-wood is a sad tree. Have students discuss the following: Why does the bush boy want to die there? Will the boy die there or will the children help him? Why/Why not? 24 Role play: Have students imagine that suddenly Mary and the bush boy can speak the same language and Mary has the chance to talk to the boy before he dies. In pairs, students role play Mary and the bush boy. What does she tell him? What does he tell her?
After reading 25 Artwork and write: Mary and Peter put rocks and wood over the dead boy. Have students draw the tombstone and write the inscription.
Chapter 5 While reading 26 Read carefully and artwork: Have students re-read page 37 and draw the map that the Aboriginals draw on the ground. 27 Discuss: Have students talk about language. Mary asks herself why we use language. How important is language? What can we talk without language?
After reading 28 Guess: Ask students to guess the following: What did Uncle Keith do when the children were lost in the desert? 29 Discuss: Have students talk about the walkabout. An Aboriginal boy goes on a walkabout as a child and should come back as an adult. In this story who else goes on a walkabout? 30 Write: The children have changed in the story. What were they like at the beginning of the story and what are they like now? Have students complete the following table. Now
Then
Mary Peter
Vocabulary activities For the Word List and vocabulary activities, go to www.penguinreaders.com.
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Activity worksheets
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Walkabout While reading Chapter 1 1 Who said this? Work in pairs. Imagine who said the sentences below. a ‘I’m hungry.’ b ‘It’ll be better in the morning.’ c ‘I’m coming too.’ d ‘What are you doing?’ e ‘Why didn’t you get dry first?’ f ‘Here’s some chocolate.’ g ‘They’re only ants.’ h ‘I don’t like this place.’ i ‘Let’s climb to the top. Perhaps we’ll see the sea.’ j ‘I’m very, very sorry.’ 2 You are Peter. Complete what you say. You have the first letter of each word to help you. a ‘My l………… hurts.’ b ‘W………… are we?’ c ‘I want to go h………… .’ d ‘When will it be lunch-t…………?’ e ‘Let’s c………… to the top.’ f ‘I can s………… .’ g ‘I’m h………… .’ h ‘The c………… is very small. Is that all?’ 3 You are Mary. Answer each thing Peter says in activity 2. For example: Mary can say ‘It’ll be better in the morning’ for sentence a. 4 What is the animal? Match the sentences with the names in the box. marsupial tiger cat wombat kookaburra ants
a The …………… wanted food – a small animal, or some insects. b The …………… pushed the sleeping children with his nose. c The …………… only ate plants. d The …………… opened his mouth and made a loud noise. e The ……………’s young babies couldn’t eat the children. f The …………… were all over Peter’s legs. g The …………… looked at the children for a minute or two.
Chapters 2–3 5 You are Peter. Tell how you met the bush boy using these phrases to help you. They are in order. c Pearson Education Limited 2008
Photocopiable … were eating red fruit … was watching us … was black and naked … wanted to run away … was young and friendly … wasn’t dangerous … carried dead wallaby
… felt our face, hair and clothes … kicked the ground … turned red … made a strange noise … sneezed … laughed
6 Underline the wrong information in the sentences and correct them. a In South Carolina, no white person came near black people. b Mary was happy because she wasn’t in charge. c Mary wanted help from the bush boy because she was afraid. d The bush people were often hungry because the desert is very hot. e Mary felt she was Peter’s little sister again when he took her hand. f Trees are yellow when there’s water near. 7 Peter and Mary don’t know how to make a fire. Put the instructions in order. a c Move it round and round very fast. b c Put some very small pieces of wood on the rock. c c Put the end of this into the small pieces. d c Take a long piece of wood between his hands. e c Find a flat stone. 8 There is a life plan for the bush boy and for his tribe that never changes. Put the words in order. After that, you walk alone, on your walkabout. After the walkabout, you become man. And after that, you die. and then you walk with your tribe. Every day is dangerous for you. First, you are born, In the walkabout you have to live in the desert alone for six months. When you are a man, you live with a woman. You have to find food and water. Walkabout - Activity worksheets
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Walkabout 9 What is the bush boy thinking about? Complete what he thinks.
I can see something in the girl’s (a) e……… . It is (b) d……… and (c) s……… . She is (d) a……… . To me, that can mean only one thing: the girl sees my (e) d……… . Now her (f ) b……… is looking at me in the same way. So the boy can see my death (g) t………! I’ll walk into the (h) d……… .
Chapter 4 10 How do you catch fish? Put the words in order. a A rock find and it throw as hard into the water as you can. b Of fish the top watch water the for c Take of water dry fish throw on out and the dead them to the rocks. d Fish with hit rock the head the a. 11 Without looking at activity 10, tell a friend how to catch a fish. Use the words: first, next, then and last. 12 When it was dark, Peter and Mary slept. But the bush boy stood on the rocks and looked out at the desert again for a long time (page 28). What was the bush boy thinking? What were the children dreaming about?
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Photocopiable Chapter 5 13 Are these sentences right (3) or wrong (7)? Correct the wrong sentences. a Mary and Peter made a bed on the ground for themselves. b When a person died in the Australian desert, everybody went to church. c The bush boy’s lessons helped them because they knew the desert now. d ‘When we die, there are many for us,’ Mary said. e Mary tried to give the baby koala back to its mother, but it caught her dress and pulled until it came off. f The family of Aboriginals knew they were lost and told them where to find more bush people. g The black man made a map on the ground and showed them where to find trees, rivers and hills.
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After reading 14 Who did this in the story? Work in pairs. Imagine who did the following in the sentences below. a first swam in the river. b first met the bush boy. c first sneezed. d laughed with the bush boy. e drank little water. f helped the bush boy make a fire. g played alone in the river. h put his or her hand on his or her stomach. i danced. j slept very little. k fell ill. l threw a small rock at somebody. m wanted to leave quickly. n took the bush boy’s head in her hands. o finally fell asleep.
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Progress test
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1 Choose the right ending for these sentences. a Mary and Peter walk into the desert because ….. 1) they have to look for water. 2) they have to look for food. 3) they have to get away from the animals. b Mary puts her dress on very quickly because ….. 1) she is cold and doesn’t want to get ill. 2) she remembers that she has no clothes on. 3) she finished swimming. c It is good that Peter doesn’t understand the problem so that ….. 1) he doesn’t get worried. 2) he likes Australia. 3) he enjoys the journey. d From the top of the high ground they see ….. 1) Adelaide. 2) the sea. 3) the desert.
5 Number these things in the order they happen in the story. a c The bush boy and the children get to a river. b c The bush boy dies. c c Peter feels ill. d c Mary holds the bush boy’s head and smiles at him. e c The bush boy feels ill. f c The bush boy has an idea: he will take them to the rivers-under-the-mountain. g c The bush boy lies under a mugga-wood tree. h c The bush boy sees Mary naked in the water. i c Peter tells Mary the bush boy is dying.
Chapters 2–3 2 Are these sentences right (3) or wrong (7)? Correct the wrong ones. a Peter sees the bush boy first. c b In South Carolina, white children and black children are friends. c c Peter teaches the bush boy English words. c d Mary is afraid of the bush boy because he is a young black man. c e The bush boy thinks Mary is afraid because she knows he is going to die. c 3 Choose the right answer. a Why does Mary tell Peter to put his clothes on? ….. 1) She thinks it is wrong to be naked. 2) She thinks he will get a cold. 3) She thinks he will lose his clothes. b When is Mary frightened by the bush boy? ….. 1) When he makes a fire and cooks the wallaby. 2) When he plays in the water with Peter. 3) When he dances and looks at her. 4 Write M (Mary), P (Peter) or B (the bush boy) next to these sentences. a This person learns some words of the bush boy’s language. ….. b This person plays in the water alone. ….. c These people find food and make a fire. ….. d This person is afraid of the bush boy. ….. e This person walks into the desert alone. ….. f This person asks the bush boy to come back. ….. c Pearson Education Limited 2008
Chapter 5 6 Are these sentences right (3) or wrong (7)? Correct the wrong ones. a The bush boy was wrong: at the bottom of the hill, everything was green. c b ‘This is great!’ Peter shouted to Mary when he climbed a tree. c c c The mother koala pulled Mary’s dress. d When the children were swimming in the water, they remembered Adelaide, Uncle c Keith and their old life in South Carolina. 7 These sentences describe what happens in the story. Put the words in brackets into the past tense. Mary and Peter’s aeroplane (a) ………………… (crash) in the middle of nowhere. They (b) ………………… (survive) the crash and (c) ………………… (run) away from the plane. They (d) ………………… (have) some chocolate and there (e) ………………… (be) a river so they (f ) ………………… (have) water. They (g) ………………… (walk) down the river. The river (h) ………………… (go) south. A bush boy (i) ………………… (find) them and ( j) ………………… (help) them. Peter (k) ………………… (like) the bush boy, but Mary (l) ………………… (be) afraid of him because he (m) ………………… (be) a naked black man. The bush boy (n) ………………… (teach) them how to live in the desert. When he (o) ………………… (get) Peter’s cold and (p) ………………… (die) they (q) ………………… (start) to walk again. They (r) ………………… (see) an Aboriginal family. The Aboriginals (s) ………………… (show) Mary and Peter the way home. Walkabout - Progress test
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Walkabout Book key 1 Open answers 2 a Aboriginals lived in Australia before Europeans arrived. b On a walkabout, an Aboriginal boy has to live in the desert. He is alone and nobody helps him. He has to survive in the desert for months. c There isn’t much food or water there because it is desert. It is very hot. d Open answers e make a lot of noise: kookaburra, cockatoo marsupials: wombat, wallaby, koala, tiger cat move slowly: wombat, koala 3 a bush, desert, hill b ant, insect, plant 4 a 7 b 3 c 7 d 3 e 3 f 3 g 3 h 3 i 7 j 7 5 a Chocolate is the children’s only food for the first two days. b When the children are sleeping, a wombat and tiger cat come near them. They can be dangerous. c A kookaburra wakes Mary up. There are cockatoos in the trees and other smaller birds near the river. Perhaps the children can eat them. d Peter has ants inside his jeans. They hurt his legs. e In the desert, there are beautiful plants in many different colours. The children have to climb over or walk round big plants on their journey. The plants don’t have any food on them, so the children are hungry. f The sun is very hot. Mary uses the sun when she wants to go south to Adelaide. The light of the evening sun makes the desert beautiful. The desert shines. Peter thinks that it is water. 6 a Mary. After the plane crash she is afraid, but she doesn’t show Peter. She puts her arms round him and he feels better. b Peter and Mary. They are afraid after the plane crash when they are lost in the desert. c Mary. She gives Peter the last piece of chocolate. d Peter and Mary. They are naked when they are in the river. e Peter. The ants in his trousers hurt him. f Mary. She knows that Adelaide is in the south. She knows the way south because of the sun. g Peter. He is excited when he climbs the high ground in the evening. He thinks that he can see the sea.
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h Mary. She knows that Peter can’t really see the sea. It is only desert. 7–9 Open answers 10 a 4 b 8 c 2 d 7 e 1 f 5 g 3 h 9 i 6 11 a She is afraid and starts to run away. But then the bush boy smiles and Mary isn’t afraid. b She isn’t happy. At home in South Carolina, black people never go near white people. c Peter is unhappy with Mary. He thinks that the bush boy is going because of her. Mary is happy because she doesn’t want the bush boy’s help. d She is unhappy. She is hot, tired and thirsty. She thinks that they are too far away. Then she knows that there is really water there, and she is happier. e They are excited because they can hear water. f He is interested in them. He thinks that they are strange. He wants to help them. g She is unhappy because she feels alone. She thinks that boys don’t want to be with girls. h She is unhappy. She wants him to put his clothes on. i She is suddenly afraid of him because he is a young man. j He is sad because she is afraid of him. He thinks that she can see his death. He feels suddenly cold, but he isn’t afraid. 12 a He cooks food for them and takes them to water. He shows Peter food (worwora) in the desert. He teaches Peter about fires. b Open answers c He is on his walkabout – months alone in the desert. After his walkabout, he will be a man. All Aboriginal boys have to do this. 13–14 Open answers 15 a knows b doesn’t sit c doesn’t sleep d don’t catch e don’t help f doesn’t finish g doesn’t throw h doesn’t tell i wants j thinks 16 Possible answers: a Why does the bush boy want to take the children to the rivers-under-the mountains? b What does Peter think of girls? c How far does the bush boy usually walk in one day? d What do they eat on their journey? / What food do they find on their journey? e Does Peter help (the bush boy) with the fire? f When does the bush boy sneeze? g Does the bush boy eat any eggs / food? Walkabout - Answer keys
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h Does the bush boy talk to Mary (when she is in the river)? i What does Mary understand / know after the bush boy’s death? j Where does Mary sleep? 17–18 Open answers 19 a flowers b hills c rivers d trees e koala f dress g smoke h fire i dog j map 20 a Mary is talking to Peter about the dead bush boy in heaven. b Peter is excited about the food and water in the green country below the last hill. c Mary is angry with Peter because he takes the baby koala from its mother. d Mary is talking to Peter about the three people near the river. e Mary is watching the Aboriginals’ hands when they talk. She is trying to understand the meaning. f Peter is talking about the beautiful place near the river before they leave it. 21 Possible answers: a Mary knows that white people and black people aren’t different. She also feels happier without her clothes in the desert. b Peter is younger but he is in charge. In many ways he is stronger than Mary, and Mary understands this. c–d Open answers 22–30 Open answers
Discussion activities key 1 a Suggested answer: There is a boy and a kangaroo on the cover. The boy looks young, maybe sixteen years old. I think the story takes place in the outback in Australia. b Open answers 2 Open answers 3 a A man-child is somebody that is neither a man nor a boy. When a child is sixteen his tribe sends him out into the Australian bush. Open answers b Open answers 4 –10 Open answers 11 Peter and Mary In the Australian desert They are lost. 12–28 Open answers
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Because their airplane crashed.
29 Mary goes on a walkabout. Peter may be on a walkabout too. 30 Now Then Mary Peter
Feels good Feels good with without clothes. clothes. Peter is difficult. Peter was never difficult.
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a Peter b Mary c Peter d Mary e Peter f Mary g Mary h Peter i Peter j Mary a leg b Where c home d time e climb f swim g hungry h chocolate Possible answers: a ‘It’ll be better in the morning.’ b ‘We will know tomorrow.’ c ‘We’ll go home soon.’ d ‘We’ll eat soon.’ e ‘Let’s.’ f ‘Swim near the rocks.’ g ‘I’ll find food.’ h ‘Yes, that’s all.’ a kookaburra b wombat c wombat d kookaburra e marsupial tiger cat f ants g marsupial tiger cat Possible answers: When we were eating red fruit, an Aboriginal boy was watching us. The boy was black and naked. Mary wanted to run away but the bush boy was young and friendly and wasn’t dangerous. He carried a dead wallaby. First, he felt our faces, hair and clothes. Then he kicked the ground, turned red and made a strange noise. When I sneezed, he laughed. 6 a white > black; black > white b happy > angry c wanted > didn’t want d hungry > thirsty e little > big f yellow > green 7 a 5 b 2 c 4 d 3 e 1 8 First, you are born, and then you walk with your tribe. After that, you walk alone, on your walkabout. In the walkabout you have to live in the desert alone for six months. You have to find food and water. Every day is dangerous for you. After the walkabout, you become man. When you are a man, you live with a woman. And after that, you die.
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Walkabout 9 a eyes b dark c strange d afraid e death f brother g too h desert 10 a Find a rock and throw it into the water as hard as you can. b Watch the top of the water for fish. c Take the dead fish out of the water and throw them on to dry rocks. d Hit the fish on the head with a rock. 11 Open answers 12 Possible answers: Peter and Mary: I want to go home. The bush boy: I am going to die. 13 a 7 Mary and Peter made a bed on the ground for the dead boy. b 7 When a person died in South Carolina, everybody went to church. c 3 d 7 ‘When we die, there’s only one place for all of us,’ Mary said. e 3 f 7 The family of Aboriginals knew they were lost and told them where to find white people. g 7 The black man made a map on the ground and showed them where to find food, water and a place for the night. 14 a Mary b Mary c Peter d Peter e the bush boy f Peter g Mary h Peter and the bush boy i the bush boy j Mary and the bush boy k Peter and the bush boy l Mary m Mary n Mary o Mary
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Progress test key 1 a 2 b 2 c 1 2 a 3 b 7 In South Carolina, no black person came near white people. c 7 The bush boy teaches Peter words in his language. d 3 e 3 3 a 1 b 3 4 a P b P c P and B d M e B f P 5 a 2 b 9 c 3 d 8 e 4 f 1 g 6 h 5 i 7 6 a 7 The bush boy was right: at the bottom of the hill, everything was green. b 3 c 7 The baby koala pulled Mary’s dress. d 7 When the children were swimming in the water, they forgot Adelaide, Uncle Keith and their old life in South Carolina. 7 a crashed b survived c ran d had e was f had g walked h went i found j helped k liked l was m was n taught o got p died q started r saw s showed
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