Test Your Research Skills Spotlight on Australia 3 Using the Internet or a research library, find the answers to these questions all about Australia: Example question 1. In Australian slang, ‘laughing gear’ means m __ __ __ __ … 2. …while if you were ‘up a gum tree’ you would be in t __ __ __ __ __ __... 3. …and if you were feeling ‘bushwhacked’ you would be extremely t _ _ _ _.

Test Your Research Skills Spotlight on Australia 2 Using the Internet or a research library, find the answers to these questions all about Australia: Some example questions... 1. Australia’s currency is called the ______________________________. 2. The mountain range that runs down the east coast is called The Great ________________ Range. a) Mountain b) Separating c) Victoria d) Dividing 3. True or false – Australia is the world’s largest producer of diamonds? a) true b) false

Test Your Research Skills Spotlight on Australia 1 Using the Internet or a research library, find the answers to these questions all about Australia: 1. Australia is the world’s smallest ________________. a) country b) city c) continent d) place 2. Australia is the ________________ largest country in the world. a) first b) third c) sixth d) ninth

Test Your Research Skills The Great Big Yellow Banana Quiz – Fun Facts about Bananas 3 How much do you know about the world’s favourite yellow-skinned fruit? Example questions... 1. What colour are ripe bananas? a) yellow b) white c) green d) red 2. What colour are unripe bananas? a) green b) orange c) yellow d) red 3. Complete the gap - “The most popular type of banana in the world is called the __________ variety.” a) Regal b) Cavendish c) Brazilian d) Atlantic The worksheet also includes a teacher answer sheet.

Test Your Research Skills The Great Big Yellow Banana Quiz – Fun Facts about Bananas 2 Example questions: How much do you know about the world’s favourite yellow-skinned fruit? 1. True or false - the banana plant is not really a tree, but the largest herb in the world... a) true b) false 2. Which one of these sentences is true...? a) bananas are high in potassium and low in fibre b) bananas are high in potassium and low in vitamins c) bananas are high in calories and low in fibre d) bananas are high in fibre and high in potassium The worksheet comes complete with a teachers answer sheet.

Test Your Reading Skills Chocolate Lovers Only 1 Can you work out which clues match these chocolate bars or sweets, which are all popular in the UK? Kit Kat Quality Street Mars Bar Smarties Jelly Babies Buttons Bounty Turkish Delight After Eights Picnic Worksheet comes complete with an answer sheet for the teacher.

Design a Game 4 Template Boards I have collected 4 different blank board templates - the idea is for children to develop their own board games and their own rules. They then need to teach the rest of the class how to play their game. Lots of talking, discussion and communication skills.

Test Your Research Skills Fifteen Great Kevin Costner Films Example questions... Complete the titles of these great Kevin Costner films: 1. Open ______________ 2. ______________ Durham 3. Dances with ______________ 4. ______________ of Dreams The worksheet includes a teacher answer sheet.

Test Your Reading Skills Chocolate Lovers Only 2 Can you work out which clues match these chocolate bars or sweets, which are all popular in the UK? Time Out Pear Drops Rolos Celebrations Curly Wurly Snickers Mint Imperials Fudge Flake Minstrels The worksheet comes complete with teacher answers sheet.

Test Your Research Skills The Olympic Games 1 Match the city with the year to show when and where the summer Olympic Games have been held, then write out the list in chronological order:

Test Your Research Skills Watching TV in the UK 1 There are five terrestrial television channels in the UK: BBC1 BBC2 ITV 1 Channel 4 Five Example questions... Write the name of the channel that shows each of these programmes: 1. Eastenders _____________________________ 2. The Simpsons _____________________________ 3. Brookside _____________________________ The worksheet includes an answer sheet.

Test Your Reading Skills Famous Britons – Reading Comprehension Look at the data showing when these famous Britons were alive and how long they lived for, then answer the questions on the next page: Examples Famous Briton Dates: Age when they died: Sir Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727 85 years old Alfred the Great 849 – 899 50 years old Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1340 – 1400 c. 60 years old 1. Who was born in 849? 2. Who was born in the fourteenth century? 3. Who died in 1922? 4. Who died in the seventeenth century? 5. Who was born in 1642? Complete with answers