Unit 9 -reading (TA 10)

There are 5 different parts - Pacific ocean , Atlantic ocean , Indian ocean , Antartic and Arctic ocean... biodiversity submarine Water current... While you read Read the text and do

Unit 9 Undersea World

Period 1 Reading

Before you read

Look at the map and answer the questions

1 How many parts of the ocean are ther e?

What are they ?

2 How many cont inents are there? What are they?

3 Can you name

1.How many parts of the ocean are there?

There are 5 different parts

- Pacific ocean , Atlantic ocean , Indian ocean ,

Antartic and Arctic ocean

• 2.How many continents are there?

There are 5 continents

Asia, Africa, America, Australia ,Europe)

Dolphin

Seal

Jellyfish

Turtle

Pre-teaching Vocabulary

• -Bay (n)

• - Mystery (n): a thing of which the cause or origin

is unknown or impossible to explain

• - Beneath( prep): under sb/st

• - Submarine (n):

• - Submarine ( a):

• - Fall into (v): to be able to divided into st

• - Water current (n)

• - Organism (n) : a living being

• - Be at stake : be at risk

biodiversity submarine

Water current

While you read Read the text and do task 1 in pairs

biodiversity, challenges, investigate, tiny, samples, provide)

because they are extremely small

the life of plants and animals that live under the sea.

………

land

• 4 ……….is a term that refers to the existence of different

kinds of animals and plants which make a balanced environment

tiny

investigate

gulf biodiversity

samples

Task 2 Answer the questions

• 1

What percentage of the earth’s surface is covered by s eas and oceans?

• 2 How do scientists now overcome the challenges of the

depth?

• 3

What can submarine do to help scientists know about th

e undersea world?

• 4 What can we learn from the satellite photos?

• 5

What are the three groups of marine plants and animals

?

• 6 What would happen if the sea biodiversity were not m

aintained?

1 75% of the earth’s surface is covered by the seas and oceans

2.By using modern devices

3 They help them to

investigate the sea bed and bring samples of the marine life back to the surface for further study

4.We can know a wide

range of information

including water

temperature, depth and the undersea population

5 Some of them live on or

depend on the bottom like the

starfish Some are swimming

animals ( fish, sharks that move independently of water….Others are tiny organisms

6 The marine of life

would be at stake if the sea biodiversity was not maintained

After you read

• Complete the summary of the reading passage by filling

each blank with a word or phrase given in the box

Plants and animals, discoveries, huge, closely

connected, modern, three-quarters, mysterious,

biodiversity

three-quarters

mysterious modern

huge Plants and animals

• 1 Learn by heart the new words

• 2 Summarize the main points of the text

• 3 Do exercises in the workbook ( unit 9 –

reading)

• 4 Prepare the “ speaking part”