TRANSCRIPT 				Reading

Student Sample: Stage S1 Standard Video 2  

Transcription:

Okay, we’re going to do the same thing as you did for your countries for Australia.  Now you’ll need a ruler and a pen.  Please take one.  Perhaps Moo can you read the instruction?

Miss have and the information.

Excellent.  Can you read that sentence?

The high, the highest mountain in Australia is Mt Kosko.

Yeah, that’s not bad.  Can you see the picture?  That’s about Mt Kosciusko.  Beautiful.  When was this picture taken?  Was it in summer or spring?  

I think autumn.

Again?

Autumn.

Read what’s underneath the picture.  Just check Moo.  Can you read the sentence here?

Mm. This one miss. 

Mount…

Mt Kosko in winter.

Excellent, so which season was it?

Winter.

Beautiful.  Right, now we have question two:  Look at the instruction.  Would someone like to read the instruction?

Yeah.

Would you like to try it?

Yeah.

Yeah?  Mm-hm.

Are they, are they citizen, true or fal?  Draw an circle around true or false.  

Beautiful.  There were actually two sentences, aren’t there?

Mm.

Alright Moo, can you read the two sentences please?

Two of Australia’s biggest city are Sydney and Melbourne.  To-…

Lovely reading.  Go ahead. 

Together they have an population of about nine million people.

Beautiful.  So can you read number five?

The hasta temp-…

Temperature.

…temperature in Brisbane in April is 26 degrees.

Good, so what city are we looking at for number five?  Is it Melbourne?

No, Brisbane.

Brisbane:  can you find Brisbane in the table?  Okay, and the month?  

April.

Good, so is this true or false?

True.

Good.  Can you find Darwin and Melbourne in the table?  

Yeah.

Good, and what month are you looking at?

January.

Good.  In Darwin in January what’s…?

Thirty-two.

Good, and in Melbourne?

Twenty-six.

Yeah, so is it hotter in Darwin than in Melbourne in January?  True or false?  

True.

Lovely.  Now number eight:  Can I read it?  “In 2006 some people from the Philippines came to live in Australia.”  Where in the text do we find that information?

Mm.

Beautiful.  Can you see Philippines in the graph?

There.

Good.  And number nine:  Moo, can you just read that?  During, during…

During, during that year most me-, what it say?

Yeah, do you want to have a try?

Mm-hm.  Me-…

Mm, looks like that, doesn’t it?  Let’s see, does anyone else know?  “Most…” This word here.  Yeah.  Moo, do you want to have a try?  No?  Have a look at the word.  Do you remember what it means?  What does it mean?  “Most…”

Most migrates 

Good try.  “Most migrants…”  Migrants:  people who come to Australia from other countries, like us to live.  Right?  Remember this graph is about people who come from other countries to live in Australia in 2011, is it?   Was it 2011?

No, it was 2006.

Fine, good.  Okay, so UK, and remember, we talked about United Kingdom, yeah?  Can you see the UK on the graph?

Yeah.

Beautiful.  “Most migrants.”  So more than any other country.  Is that the biggest part on the graph?

Yeah.  

What colour is the UK?

Blue.

Good.  Is that bigger than the other ones?

Yeah.

Yeah?  So what do you think?  True or false?  We’re up to this one, number nine here.  

I think true.

Beautiful.