Children in Australia live in remote areas. any
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How do they get an education? This is a story
about a day in the life of an 8-year-old child living
in Australia on the farm, 300 kilometres away from
the nearest school.
Jack wakes up at 6 a.m. to feed the chickens and
help his dad on the farm.
Then he is back to the house
at 7 a.m. for breakfast. His class with his teacher is
at 8 a.m. He leaves the kitchen and goes to the study
room. He sits in front of the computer and waits for
his classmates and teacher to come online. This system
is called Interactive Distant Learning (IDL). He has
seven half-hour lessons using IDL with the School
of the Air each week. The Alice Springs School of the
Air has 120 students who live on an area over a million
square kilometres, which makes it the largest class-
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Tom has been reading for 2 hours, he has read 44 pages so far.
Rachel has been travelling for three months , she has visited six countries so far.
Patrick has won the national championship four times, he has been playing tennis since he was ten.
Lisa and Sue have made five films since they left college, they have been making films since they left college.
1 have you been playing 2 has broken 3 have you been working 4 have you ever worked 5 has she gone 6 haven’t been waiting 7 has stopped 8 have lost - have you seen 9 have been reading - haven’t finished 10 have read