(共20张PPT)
Unit 2
Iconic attractions
Video Time
By the end of this period, you will be able to:
1. learn something about the Mbantua Festival by watching the video;
2. get more interested in different cultures.
Watch a video to know somthing about Aboriginal Australian.
Before you watch
The Mbantua Festival
Mbantua means “awakening the desert”. The Mbantua Festival brings together hundreds of Aboriginal performers from across central Australia to celebrate their ceremonies, culture, and music through theatre, events, workshops, art, and film screenings.
Task 1 Match the following things.
1. Aborigines
2. an Aboriginal group in Alice Springs
3. good food
4. what the women are carrying on their heads in the race
5. what a tourist decides to name her animal sculpture
6. white people
A “Alice”
B good tucker
C billy cans
D indigenous groups
E non-indigenous people
F the Aranda people
While you watch
Task 1 Check your answers in Before You Watch.
1. Aborigines
2. an Aboriginal group in Alice Springs
3. good food
4. what the women are carrying on their heads in the race
5. what a tourist decides to name her animal sculpture
6. white people
A “Alice”
B good tucker
C billy cans
D indigenous groups
E non-indigenous people
F the Aranda people
Task 2 Choose the best words to complete the sentences below.
1. Independent/Indigenous groups from across Australia’s desert centre have come to share with one another on the sacred/secret grounds of the Aranda people in Alice Springs.
2. They might be using billy cans instead of wooden bones/bowls but the activities are helping keep alive traditions which might otherwise be skipping/slipping.
3. It’s presenting an alternative picture of a national history/story which can look very apparent/different for black and white Australians.
4. That’s what we are trying to do with this festival—bring non-indigenous people to us, hear/share our culture with them, and our history, in the hope that they feel like that part of the nation’s history is part of their own dignity/identity.
5. As night falls in the small object/pocket in the heart of Australia, people have been brought closer together, at least for a few days/in a few days.
Read together
Narrator: Revealing the tales of days gone by through song and dance, indigenous groups from across Australia’s desert centre have come to share with one another on the sacred grounds of the Aranda people in Alice Springs. From Dreaming or Creation stories, to the effects of European arrival.
Rachel Perkins: Everything you see at this festival is lensed through the eyes of desert people and the history that informs those people.
Narrator: It’s a rare chance for the different Aboriginal nations here to join with non-indigenous Australians in appreciating every facet of this ancient culture.
Festival goer: A lot of good tuckers there…You need to get this one, too.
Narrator: They might be using billy cans instead of wooden bowls but the activities are helping keep alive traditions which might otherwise be slipping.
Narrator: Foreign tourists, too, are sampling traditional desert foods and getting hands on with the local arts and crafts.
Tourist: And I think I will call it “Alice”. Yes.
Narrator: It’s also engaging indigenous youth in their heritage, while in its openness, it’s presenting an alternative picture of a national story which can look very different for black and white Australians.
Festival goer: The sharing of those personal stories helps to enlighten everyone as to what it actually is, and then maybe through that, develop a new story of whatever that’s going to look like for Australia.
Rachel Perkins: That’s what we are trying to do with this festival—bring non-indigenous people to us, share our culture with them and our history in the hope that they feel like that part of the nation’s history is part of their own identity.
Narrator: As night falls in this small pocket in the heart of Australia, people have been brought closer together, at least for a few days.
After you watch
1. Why do you think this festival is important to Aborigines What about non-indigenous people
It is important to the Aborigines because until very recently they were very much an oppressed group, and this festival allows them to celebrate and show off their culture. It is important to the non-indigenous people because it gives them a rare chance to meet and learn about the Aboriginal people of Australia.
2. What interested you most in the video Why
I am interested in the food because I like to eat. I wish that the video had showed more about it.
Homework
What opportunities do you have to experience and learn about different cultures in China Write it down and then share it with your partner later.