Migration bingoYear 9 English - Belonging Unit

Warm up activity

Is population growth a problem?Compare and contrast

Lesson objectives

I will be able to identify, deconstruct and use terms and language that contain loaded meanings to persuade.

I will understand the reasons for migration to Australia.

I will explore how migration influences my life.

Australia was an outpost of Britain. The White Australia Policy allowed

European migrants to settle.

Between 1945 and 1965, two million migrants came. The

government paid their fares under the "populate or perish" slogan. It helped 170,000 displaced persons

to migrate fro war-torn europe during the Cold War.

Welcome

This 1948 poster promoted Australian migration in Europe's displacement camps.

Why did the artist used Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian

folk art styles?

Post-war migration1945-1965

Mining jobs

Laboured in jobs the government gave them to help build Australia.

Various words have been and are used

to identify migrants. Let's

examine how the language conveys

meaning or positions you to accept certain assumptions.

Your turn to think!

People

New settlers

Migrants

Displaced persons

Refugees

Asylum seekers

Illegal Maritime Arrivals

Late 1970s - 1980s - today

By 1985, 70,000 refugees from Southeast Asia were resettled in Australia - after the Vietnam War and Pol Pot's murderous tyranny in Cambodia.

Chile, former-Czechoslavakia, Balkans, Africa and Middle East.

Refugees are people who leave their country of birth because of hardship or persecution.

More then 100 languages

Diverse, multicultural society based on tolerance and mutual respect.

What other words describe Australia?

BINGO!

Time to see how much you know.

Migration Bingo

Work individually go around the class ask classmates the questions below.

Post-war migration happened after which war? WWI, WWII, Iraq,

Afghanistan.

List 5 countries from where people migrated to Australia in the past

2 decades.

Name Australia's nearest Asian

neighbour.

What country makes Hyundai cars?

Answer: Answer:Answer: Answer:

What is Gangnam Style?

Can you speak another language?

Name a mountain in Nepal or Japan.

You have a friend born overseas. Name them.

The first person who fills their card up yells BINGO! And wins.

Homework

Design your own poster for the slogan: Australia, the land of tomorrow.