11th grade. Unit 4. Lesson 7. Australian Citizenship. Articles

Read the story of Kimberly Anderson (USA). Complete the text with a, an or the when they are necessary. If you don't use an article, write - . Kimberly Anderson was born in 1963 in Washington State, where they have [blank_start]a[blank_end] white Christmas every year. Kimberly says she grew up in [blank_start]a[blank_end] liberal household where she was encouraged to follow her dreams, and she dreamed of being [blank_start]an[blank_end] actress. She was living that dream by 1989, as Mary Magdalene in the Seattle production of Godspell. “Then [blank_start]a[blank_end] group of Australians blew into my world and we laughed till we cried,“ Kimberly says. She admired ‘their spirit, their individuality and their world view”. [blank_start]A[blank_end] few months later, she found herself admiring [blank_start]an[blank_end] Australian named Anthony Griffiths. They spent seven months together in [blank_start]the[blank_end] States, and then seven months apart, before Kimberly stepped off a plane in [blank_start]-[blank_end] Melbourne. “I had two suitcases, with [blank_start]a[blank_end] wedding dress in one of them,” she says. [blank_start]The[blank_end] couple moved to Seattle after the wedding. Their son, Jack Alexander, was born there in 1994. “We had [blank_start]the[blank_end] whole American dream,” Kimberly says. ‘But one day we looked at each other, and we couldn’t remember [blank_start]the[blank_end] last time we had laughed till we cried. We packed everything up, and went backpacking with Jack.” They landed in Melbourne in time for Christmas 1998. “[blank_start]-[blank_end] American grandparents were crying,” Kimberly admits, “but now they’ve been here several times.” Kimberly says she comes from [blank_start]a[blank_end] long line of educators – her mother and grandfather were teachers, and her great grandfather founded [blank_start]a[blank_end] university. She says there is [blank_start]a[blank_end] kind of “actor-audience relationship” in class, but [blank_start]-[blank_end] teachers don’t have to move cities as frequently as actors. “When you have [blank_start]a[blank_end] child, you don’t want to be a gypsy anymore.” She did [blank_start]a[blank_end] Diploma of Education at Melbourne University, graduating in 1999 as [blank_start]an[blank_end] Australian history and drama teacher. Kimberly remembers that she had a “most remarkable” group of boys in 2003 when [blank_start]an[blank_end] excursion led them to [blank_start]the[blank_end] Melbourne Immigration Museum. She stood for [blank_start]a[blank_end] moment alone, dreaming of [blank_start]the[blank_end] stories around her. And when she asked [blank_start]the[blank_end] boys to write about what it means to be Australian, she knew their words would change her life. They wrote of the “power, belief and culture” in a “strong nation which thrives on [blank_start]-[blank_end] confidence and [blank_start]-[blank_end] opportunity”. “Australia is [blank_start]the[blank_end] land of hope and where every Australian citizen is proud to call their land home,” concluded an essay by Brendan Mason. “I’ve been back to the United States twice,” Kimberly says. “And the last time I was there at Christmas last year, all I wanted was to be back home.” And I realised home was Australia. Many of [blank_start]the[blank_end] young men who were boys in the Year 9 class of 2003 returned to the Melbourne Immigration Museum to see their teacher become [blank_start]an[blank_end] Australian citizen at the ceremony held on Australian Citizenship Day, 17 September 2006.