This is my keynote presentation about Aboriginal people . I did this project during quarter 2 Social Studies. SCIS Pudong campus grade 4.

1. ABORIGINAL
PEOPLE
By:Rachel
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2. Contents
1 wildlife
2 food
3 artwork
4 Language
5 Living
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3. wildlife
Some of Australia’s animals are Kangaroos,wild
donkeys,desert death adder and many more. There are more
than 40 types of kangaroos in Australia. Small kangaroos
weigh from 6 to 9 pounds and big red kangaroos weigh
around 180 pounds. Big red kangaroos can be as tall as 6
feet. Gray kangaroos can go as fast as 30 miles an hour.
Out of all the birds in Australia,and there are many,the
Emu is the best known. The Emu is about 5 feet tall. The
Emu can run very fast, but the emu can not fly.
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4. food
Some Aboriginal foods are bugs. Bugs were a important
source of for a lot of Aborigines. Some bugs they ate were
insects such as ants,grubs,caterpillars,and moths. Other
ways to get food were by hunting and fishing. When the
Aboriginal people hunted they used spears. Some of the
spears were just poles without spearheads,and others had
detachable spearheads.
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5. Artwork
Some Aboriginal art is dot painting. Dot paintings can
include animals like the ones at the top,but they don’t have to
have animals in them like the one at the bottom.Some You
see you don’t even know what they are of,Like these
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6. Language
250 native languages were spoken in Australia
before the 1800s. Many languages were forgotten after
the Europeans arrived. About 30 or 40 are still spoken
fluently. Some people speak english as a second
language and use the old languages. But most aboriginal
people speak mainly english. A lot of Aboriginal learn
their traditional languages.
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7. Living
Aboriginal people build houses near the
water so they can be near the animals they
hunt. Only few of those houses were
permanent. As food supplies decreased or
the water dried up,people moved in search of
new supplies.
The size of a bark house depends on how
many people need to live in the house. The
number of people needed to live in the
house is usually between 6 and 25. Single
men or family groups share 1 house.
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8. currency
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9. Bibliography
The Aboriginal People in australia;2002;Anne Bartlett;Times Media Private Limited
http://www.ozoutback.com.au/postcards/postcards_forms/animals_3/index.htm
http://images.google.com/images?
hl=en&newwindow=1&resnum=0&q=aboriginalfood&oe=
utf-8&sa=n&tab=wi&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=
0&ct=property-revision&cd=1
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=aboriginal+dot
+paintings&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi&oi=property_suggestions
&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=1
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