The Great South Land was published by NCELTR in 2001. When NCELTR was disbanded by Macquarie University, the ownership of this resource package was transferred to Macmillan Education. Now the publication is out of print and Macmillan have handed the copyright back to Sugarbag on Damper, who have now produced a Second Edition.The new edition has a new cover and the same general format and features:
Dyslexie font for the easiest level text and exercises
Some updates in the reading texts, including reference to ancient climate change in the medium and hard level texts.
It is accompanied also by a Workbook and a reader.
Great South Land cd (Sugarbag)
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- The text covers the arrival of Aboriginal people, visits by Indonesian fisherman, European maritime exploration,'discovery' of the continent they called 'The Great South Land' and the establishment of the first significant European settlement - which led to modern Australia.
It follows the same pattern as earlier publications in this series with three levels of both reading texts and exercises.
The sound CD has:
+ readings of each of the three reading texts clearly at appropriate speeds for the relevant students
+ Two performances of the amended version of Botany Bay, sung by Lyndal Reid, George Buwali and Dorothy Court with George providing guitar accompaniment
The first version is "lined": Lyndal sings one line slowly and that line is repeated by the whole group and so on through the complete song.
Then the group sings the whole song straight through at a slightly faster pace.