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Real English Discussions Course
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Introduction
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Real English Discussions Course
Week 1 - Bushfires & Australia's Ecosystems5 Topics -
Week 2 - Deadly & Harmless Australian Spiders5 Topics
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Week 3 - Political Corruption in Australia5 Topics
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Week 4 - How Climate Change Has Worsened in Dad's Lifetime5 Topics
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Week 5 - Australian Pub Drinking Games5 Topics
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Week 6 - The Australian Open5 Topics
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Week 7 - Early Exploration of Australia5 Topics
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Week 8 - Tasmanian Devils & Tigers5 Topics
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Week 9 - How Australia Got Camels5 Topics
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Week 10 - Women vs Men's Sport in Australia5 Topics
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Week 11 - Australia's Most Dangerous Animals5 Topics
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Week 12 - Australia's Worst-Ever Bushfire Season5 Topics
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Bonus SectionBonus 1 - Origins of the Coronavirus5 Topics
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Bonus 2 - Why the War on Drugs Never Worked5 Topics
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- An explorer – a person who explores a new or unfamiliar area.
- Have a good grip of something – understand something well.
- The Trade Winds – winds blowing steadily towards the equator from the north-east in the northern hemisphere or the south-east in the southern hemisphere.
- The Roaring Forties – stormy ocean tracts between latitudes 40° and 50° south.
- 40 degrees latitude – 40 units of distance north or south of the Equator of the Earth.
- Notionally – theoretically; speculatively.
- A navigator – a person who leads and directs a ship, aircraft, etc.
- The great circles – a circle on the surface of a sphere which lies in a plane passing through the sphere’s centre.
- Two dimensions – a geometric setting in which two values are required to determine the position of an element.
- A pole – either the north or south surfaces of the Earth over its axis of rotation.
- The Arctic Circle – the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth.
- Map something out – draw a diagram of a route of travel.
- Dead straight – perfectly linear; without curves.
- Air traffic control – the ground-based personnel and equipment concerned with controlling and monitoring air traffic within a particular area.
- Van Diemen’s Land – the first name of the island of Tasmania.
- Name something after someone – give something the same name as something else.
- A sponsor – someone who pays for something on someone else’s behalf.
- Bump into something – physically meet with something, often by surprise.
- Cut across/through something – move across/through something very quickly, often as a shortcut.
- Land on something – arrive on land from being in the air or at sea.
- Off the top of your head – based on my memory.
- A citizen – a legally recognised subject or national of a state or commonwealth, either native or naturalised.
- A trade route – a long-distance route along which commercial goods are transported.
- The East Indies – South East Asia, including India, Indonesia, and the Malay Archipelago.
- Spices – an aromatic or pungent vegetable substance used to flavour food, e.g. cloves, pepper, or cumin.
- The Suez Canal – a sea-level channel in north-east Egypt linking the Mediterranean and Red Sea.
- A sand dune – a hill of sand near an ocean or in a desert formed from wind.
- Lush – (of vegetation, especially grass) growing luxuriantly.
- Populate (a place) – form a population of (a place).
- Base something somewhere – located or set up somewhere.
- Run something – be in charge of or manage something.
- A trade company – a business working with different kinds of products sold for consumer, business, or government purposes.
- Pepper – a pungent hot-tasting powder prepared from dried and ground peppercorns, used as a spice or condiment to flavour food.
- A tulip – a bulbous spring-flowering plant of the lily family, with boldly coloured cup-shaped flowers.
- Plummet – fall or drop straight down at high speed.
- Aesthetics – a set of principles concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty.
- A colony – a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country.
- Take something for granted – fail to properly appreciate (someone or something), especially as a result of overfamiliarity.
- Colonisation – the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.
- Colonise somewhere – send settlers to (a place) and establish political control over it.
- No kidding? – used to show surprise or shock, i.e. “Are you not joking?”.
- Racial makeup (of a group of people) – denoting or relating to the division of the human species into races on grounds of physical characteristics.
- A dialect – a particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group.
- Chiefly – primarily; mostly.
- Bahasa Indonesian – the dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
- Blow someone’s mind – surprise or shock someone.
