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GW. Read and fill in the gaps with the verbs given in the box. Use the correct tense form.

a) to know
e) to eat
i) to show

b) to spend
f) to catch
j) to celebrate
c) to walk
g) to make
k) to travel
d) not to take
h) to sleep
l) to do

The Warlpiri people have modern lives like most people in Australia, but they also have their own traditions. One of the traditions is Walkabout*, the moment when a boy becomes an adult. When a boy is 13, he leaves his family and walks on foot around the desert. In this way he shows that he can survive and he is brave.

Map of Aboriginal Australia

Well, on the day of his thirteenth birthday, Jangala from Central Australia (1)... around the Tanami desert for a week and he (2)... it alone! Jangala (3)... any food with him (4)... in the desert, he (5)... small animals and snakes, he (6)... them with his boomerang (a curved flat piece of wood that you throw and it can fly in a circle and come back to you) and spear. He (7)... small fires to cook his food. At nights he (8)... under the stars in the desert. In fact he (9)... that he was a good Warlpiri. When Jangala returned, his family (10)... his new status. He was happy. He (11)... that long ago the Warlpiri boys (12)... 6 months on Walkabout.

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PW/GW. Find out True/False sentences.

1) When a Warlpiri boy is 13, he walks around the desert and returns home with his new status.
2) Jangala took a lot of food with him and left his family.
3) Many years ago the Warlpiri boys travelled 6 weeks on Walkabout.
4) The Warlpiri boy celebrated his thirteenth birthday with his friends.
5) The boy slept under the stars in the desert at nights.

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IW. Find out unscrambled words and build up sentences.

1. outabalkw
5. rageouenc
9. veiecre
2. tzalw
6. ivevrus
10. vivesur
3. gnah
7. ertsed
11. chateloco
4. ournoh
8. velart
12. owcrn