The Reading / Listening - Army Recruits - Level 0

Americans and people from the UK will soon be able to join Australia's army. Australia needs around 4,400 new workers to join the army. Only people who are permanent residents in Australia can apply to join the army. Australia said people from other countries could join in the future.

Australian needs people because "it is essential to meet the nation's security challenges". A spokesperson said: "Recruiting from a wider pool of people will help ensure [the army] reflects the full diversity of Australia." The opposition party said: "We should be seeing more Australians with the confidence to sign up."

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    Army Recruits - Level 1 Army Recruits - Level 2   or  Army Recruits - Level 3

Sources
  • https://www.defence.gov.au/news-events/news/2024-06-04/adf-opens-its-ranks-non-citizens
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv22v0wg8v3o
  • https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-04/foreign-citizen-australian-defence-force-recruitment-opened/103931146


Make sure you try all of the online activities for this reading and listening - There are dictations, multiple choice activities, drag and drop activities, sentence jumbles, which word activities, text reconstructions, spelling, gap fills and a whole lot more. Please enjoy :-)

Phrase Matching

Paragraph 1

  1. Americans and people
  2. soon be able
  3. Australia needs around
  4. new
  5. people who are permanent
  6. apply to join
  7. people from other
  8. in the
  1. residents
  2. 4,400
  3. future
  4. countries
  5. to join
  6. from the UK
  7. the army
  8. workers

Paragraph 2

  1. Australian needs
  2. because it is
  3. meet the nation's security
  4. Recruiting from a wider pool
  5. reflects the full
  6. opposition
  7. We should
  8. the confidence to
  1. party
  2. challenges
  3. sign up
  4. people
  5. be seeing more
  6. diversity
  7. essential
  8. of people

Listening — Listen and fill in the gaps

Americans (1) ___________________ the UK will soon (2) ___________________ join Australia's army. Australia needs around 4,400 new workers to (3) ___________________. Only people who are permanent residents in Australia (4) ___________________ join the army. Australia (5) ___________________ other countries could (6) ___________________ future.

Australian needs people because "(7) ___________________ to meet (8) ___________________ challenges". A spokesperson said: "Recruiting from a wider pool of people (9) ________________ [the army] reflects (10) ________________ of Australia." The opposition party said: "We should (11) ___________________ Australians with the confidence (12) ___________________."

Put a slash (/) where the spaces are

AmericansandpeoplefromtheUKwillsoonbeabletojoinAustralia'sarm
y.Australianeedsaround4,400newworkerstojointhearmy.Onlypeopl
ewhoarepermanentresidentsinAustraliacanapplytojointhearmy.Aus
traliasaidpeoplefromothercountriescouldjoininthefuture.Australian
needspeoplebecause"itisessentialtomeetthenation'ssecuritychallen
ges".Aspokespersonsaid:"Recruitingfromawiderpoolofpeoplewillhel
pensure[thearmy]reflectsthefulldiversityofAustralia."Theoppositio
npartysaid:"WeshouldbeseeingmoreAustralianswiththeconfidencet
osignup."

Student survey

Write five GOOD questions about this topic in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

(Please look at page 12 of the PDF to see a photocopiable example of this activity.)

Discussion — Write your own questions

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)

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STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)

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(j) ________________

(k) ________________

(l) ________________

(m) ________________

(n) ________________

(o) ________________

(p) ________________

Free writing

Write about this topic for 10 minutes. Comment on your partner’s paper.

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Answers

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