With a Partner
1. The cartoon shows how much people in Australia love AFL. It's kind of like the Australian sport that everyone knows about. Everyone Australian loves watching the Footy.
2. The cartoon is an accurate representation of the Australians love of Footy. It's what people see when they think of Australia. Footy, kangaroos and meat pies is what people see when they think of Australia.
3. Soccer is the real football and not Australian Rules. Soccer is the football because thats what's commonly used in soccer. AFL uses it's hands a lot more than feet. So it should be called handball. Then again I'm from England so I'm probably a bit biased in this situation. It all depends where we're from because that's the sport you follow.
4. Because they're being brought up from a very young age to like AFL by they're parents and they're grandparents before them. It also means people want to be active, even when they're really young and really old.
5. No because sport is more enjoyable to watch to me than music and art etc. I prefer sport and activity over Arts and music.
The Poem
1. Because many people enjoy watching and playing AFL in Australia so it is easy to use for people to use that in relation to what people love.
2. Not in Australia because other sports are not as big here. If you used soccer in England it would work because many people in England love soccer. The only other sport that might work in Australia is cricket.
3. Carn means go or come on. It wouldn't work for opera because you don't cheer anything in opera. But in sport you do cheer things on.
4. They both associate with AFL and it shows the passion shown in the sport and how it's part of they're identity. Ones a cartoon and the other is a poem, which means they're expressed in different forms.
5. a) The tone used would be emotional because it's trying to show the passion of the sport and how it is part of the Australian identity.
b) "behold their team going up the ladder to heaven", "Hearts shrapnelled with rapture".
