The Animated History of Australia – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary
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1.This episode is brought to you by skillshare
2.The first five hundred viewers who sign up using the link below get two months of skillshare free Aristotle, Ptolemy and Macrobius believed that there was far too much land in the Northern hemisphere and that there must be some undiscovered continent balancing the globe in the south okay, so the logic was a little flawed but during the age of the search was on for 'terra australis incognito' fast forward few centuries to the East Indies three Dutch sailors landed in Australia in the sixteen hundreds
3.The mythical southern continent had just been found Australia was the last of the new world to be cause let's be honest nobody cares about Antarctica Australia was of course already inhabited of between three hundred and seven hundred thousand by modern estimates Early contacts with these tribes were as often peaceful as they were violent it is thought that
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Key Vocabulary (CEFR B1)
absolutely
A2In an absolute or unconditional manner; utterly, positively, wholly.
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"who sign up using the link below get two months of skillshare absolutely"
somewhere
A2Unspecified or unknown (unlocated) place or location.
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"some undiscovered continent balancing the globe somewhere"
discovery
A2Something discovered.
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"was a little flawed but during the age of discovery"
accidentally
B1In an accidental manner; by chance, unexpectedly.
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"three Dutch sailors landed in Australia accidentally"
discovered
A2To find or learn something for the first time.
Example:
"some undiscovered continent balancing the globe somewhere"
| Word | CEFR | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| absolutely | A2 | In an absolute or unconditional manner; utterly, positively, wholly. |
| somewhere | A2 | Unspecified or unknown (unlocated) place or location. |
| discovery | A2 | Something discovered. |
| accidentally | B1 | In an accidental manner; by chance, unexpectedly. |
| discovered | A2 | To find or learn something for the first time. |
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