Sunday, February 1, 2009

Nice weather?


Australia is suffering from its worst heatwave on record with temperatures hitting 43 degrees Celsius in the usually mild Melbourne.

Australian ministers are blaming global warming for the heatwave and more than 20 people have died in Adelaide to date. Australians are trying to combat the heatwave by various methods such as freezing their water bottles!

For more information click on the title link!

Homework alert:

Miss Habib's classes, 8A1 8A2 and 8C1, are to write a newspaper article for a kids' geography magazine "Jnr Geoggers". Homework is due on your lesson on the week beginning 23rd February 2009. This news article is to explain about the heatwave in Australia. Things that you should include are:

Climate data
Map of Australia
Information about where the population is mainly distributed
How global warming has affected Australians
How this heatwave is affecting Australia

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