Thananya P.

5113117 (SEC476)

AUSTRALIA
A. Give contextual meaning of the following:

1. Billabong A pond where a child learned how to catch fish

2. Coppers Those white people driven on a car coming to take the aboriginal children to train for service for them.

3. Ill have you I will fight with you

4. Crikey A word shows surprise

5. Missus A wife

6. Nature will take its course. To let someone receive what he or she deserves or let something happens naturally.

7. A brumby man A wild person

8. Youre an animal

You are so rude. Lady Ashley told Drover when they had an argument.

9. Creamy The mixed blood between black and white and becomes creamy. Another meaning is stupid and witless.

10.

Do not take that tone with me.

Do not speak to me with that tone or expression

11.

On moral ground

The reason based on morality. In this movie, its a case of Fletcher stealing cows.

12.

Late husband

A husband that just recently die

13.

To put in good hands

To take something to the better place or someone to the better person who can gives a good care.

14.

No grog.

No alcohol

15.

Lets get cracking

Lets start doing something

16.

A shut-eye

To close eyes to sleep

17.

A stampede

A panic situation which, in the movie, all cows ran because of fire and everybody got rush in a chaos.

18.

Wrong-side business

Having an affair

19.

TB

Tuberculosis, a kind of disease

20.

Lets not muck about.

Lets make it done, not make it complicated or waste time.

21.

Were full.

The amount of needed cows is enough. They want no more cows.

22.

The ball

The party

23.Dingoes A kind of animal that is similar to fox. In the movie, Drover compared himself mixed with this kind of animal and hes too different from Lady Ashley who was high and superior duchesses.

24.

A savage

A cruel person who killed Lady Ashleys husband

25.

The mod cons

Modern conveniences

26.

Things are looking up.

Things are getting better.

27.

Japs

Japans army

28.

Yanks

The army solders

29.

A rendezvous

A meeting

30.

I sing you to me.

I sing a song to talk to you.

B. Answer the following questions with as much details as you can for the mark indicated

1. What is the Stolen Generation? The half blood aboriginal children that being brought from their land to be trained for service of white people. They will be brought away from their parents without discussing about any willingness.

2. Why was Lady Ashley referred to as The Rain for Faraway Downs? Lady Ashley was referred to as the rain for Faraway Downs because she changed many things there to be better for everyone. She was dared to fire Fletcher, to protect Nullah, and to make other decisions to improve Faraway Downs. As her arrival, she made

many things to heal minds of people in Faraway Downs. Thats why she was like a rain that was so fresh and delightful.

3. Why was the meat business in Australia very important during the World War II? The Aussie beef is well-known in the good quality and it will be supplied to the troops by the mongers which were German, Italian and Japanese merchants. But the one who got the right to supply those meats must got the armys contract as well.

4. Why and how did the aborigines sing? Aborigines sing for everything because its a magic for them. They sing to get what they want such as to catch fish, to get rid of fear. They also sing for the cattle to keep them calm. When they are singing, its like they are praying or chanting.

5. Why was a walkabout necessary and important to Nullah? For aboriginal culture, walkabout is like a step to be a man because children will learn to live their lives and they will face the real things in the forest. To go walkabout is to be growing up.