2007 Australian Citizenship test Australien Down Under Oz

Anmeldedatum: 13.10.2007 Beiträge: 33

2007 Australian Citizenship test

1. Do you understand the meaning, but are unable to explain the origin of, the term "died in the arse"?
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2. What is a bloody little beauty??
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3. Are these terms related: chuck a sickie; chuck a spaz; chuck a U-ey?
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4. Explain the following passage: "In the arvo last Chrissy the relos rocked up for a barbie, some bevvies and a few snags. After a bit of a Bex and a lie down we opened the pressies, scoffed all the chockies, bickies and lollies. Then we drained a few tinnies and Mum did her block after Dad and Steve had a barney and a bit of biffo."
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5. Macca, Chooka and Wanger are driving to Surfers in their Torana. If they are travelling at 100 km/h while listening to Barnsey, Farnsey and Acca Dacca, how many slabs will each person on average consume between flashing a brown eye and having a slash?
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6. Complete the following sentences:
a) "If the van's rockin' don't bother ?
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c) Fair crack of the ?
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7. I've had a gutful and I can't be fagged. Discuss
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8. Have you ever been on the giving or receiving end of a wedgie?
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9. Do you have a friend or relative who has a car in their front yard "up on blocks"? Is his name Bruce and does he have a wife called Cheryl?
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10. Does your family regularly eat a dish involving mincemeat, cabbage, curry powder and a packet of chicken noodle soup called either chow mein, chop suey or kai see ming?
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11. What are the ingredients in a rissole?
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12. Demonstrate the correct procedure for eating a Tim Tam.
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13. Do you have an Aunty Irene who smokes 30 cigarettes a day and sounds like a bloke?
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14. In any two-hour period have you ever eaten three-bean salad, a chop and two serves of pav washed down with someone else's beer that has been flogged from a bath full of ice?
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15. When you go to a bring- your-own-meat barbie can you eat other people's meat or are you only allowed to eat your own?
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16. What purple root vegetable beginning with the letter "b" is required by law to be included in a hamburger with the lot?
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17. Do you own or have you ever owned a lawn mower, a pair of thongs, an Esky or Ugg boots?
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18. Is it possible to "prang a car" while doing "circle work"?
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19. Who would you like to crack on to?
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20. Who is the most Australian: Kevin "Bloody" Wilson, John "True Blue" Williamson, Kylie Minogue or Warnie?
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21. Is there someone you are only mates with because they own a trailer or have a pool?
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22. What does " sinkin ' piss at a mates joint and getten para " mean?

Anmeldedatum: 12.10.2007 Beiträge: 30

What are the answers to all questions? To understand for poor "Deutschländer".

Anmeldedatum: 13.10.2007 Beiträge: 33

moin poco,

das ist eine Parodie, ein Witz, nicht ernst gemeint.

Darin kommen ganz typische (dialektische) australische Ausdrücke vor mit denen man im Schulenglisch nix anfangen kann.

Zum Beispiel wird das Wort "bloody" (blutig) sehr, sehr gerne und bei jeder Gelegenheit angewandt. So wie wir sagen: "Das ist ein blutiger Anfänger" und damit nicht wirklich blutig im eigentlichen Sinne meinen, so sagen die Aussies zu allem möglichen "bloody".

z.B. unter 2. What is a bloody little beauty??
das würde auf deutsch heissen: eine verdammt hübsche Kleine.

oder "died in the arse" "pain in the arse" ist ein sehr grosses Ärgernis.

auf deutsch wörtlich übersetzt würde sowas "Schmerzen im Hintern" bedeuten.

Wenn ich mal ein bisschen Zeit übrig habe, werde ich mal eine Art Wörterbuch zusammenstellen wo diese dialektischen Ausdrücke übersetzt werden.

z.B. ein Barbie ist ein Grill, abgeleitet von Barbecue
oder arvo ist der Nachmittag, abgeleitet von afternoon,
bevvies sind Getränke, von Beverage abgeleitet

"Then we drained a few tinnies" dann haben wir einige Bierdosen geleert

du siehst, man muss nicht unbedingt englisch können in Down Under

Cheers