Gold! is a package of reading material at three successive levels of difficulty to encourage timid readers to go beyond their normal comfort zone. We use the terms Easy, Medium and Hard, rather than the more conventional professional terms to distinguish the three levels because students know these simple words and are not distracted from the text trying to work out the meanings of more difficult terms.
The text covers the history of gold in Australia, including discovery, early mining methods, problems on the goldfields, including the Eureka Stockade and anti-Chinese riots, and gold in Australia today.
Gold! Covers the early history of Australian gold mining: discovery, mining methods, Eureka, Stockade and other problems. It also touches briefly on the modern Australian gold industry. This resource is suitable for both adult and younger learners and can assist older readers, NESB and ESB, who have problems with English print, or it can be used as part of primary SOSE programmes.
There is also an audio CD to support students who like to "read along" and to help with general listening and detailed auditory processing problems. As well as the texts read by Lyndal Reid, an extremely experienced Australian ESL teacher, the CD contains The Gold Song, written by Lyndal Reid and John Davidson and performed by Keith Davidson to the tune of Waltzing Matilda.