Unit 9-Reading 12Cb

What kinds of plants and animals live in a desert2. Are the following statements true T or false F?2.The Simpson Desert is the largest one in Australia.. The desert was named after Simps

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* Work in pairs. Ask and answer the following questions.

1 What do you know about deserts?

2 What kinds of plants and animals live in a desert?

3 Name some of the countries which have deserts?

** Vocabulary:

1 stretch (r, n) [stret∫] Kéo dài, dải

2 aerial (n) ['eəriəl] ở trên không

3 camel (n) ['kæməl]

5 network (n) ['netwə:k] mạng lưới

6 hummock (n) ['hʌmək] gò , đống

7 crest (n) [krest] đỉnh nóc, chỏm, ngọn

8 spinifex (n) ['spainəfeks ] cỏ lá nhọn

9 slope (n) [sləup] dốc thoai thoải

10 Steep slope (n) Dốc đứng

Match the words in A with their Vietnamese equivalents in B.

a cuộc thăm dò, thám hiểm

b Hội Địa lý Hoàng gia Úcc.ở trên không

d đỉnh, nóc, chỏm

e thổ dân Úc

f đụn, cồn cát

Task 1 Are the following statements true (T) or false (F)?

2.The Simpson Desert is the largest one in Australia.

3 The desert was named after Simpson in 1929.

4 Colson and Madigan travelled across the Simpson

Desert in 1936.

5 There are more dunes in the western part of the desert.

6 Dry salt lakes are in the northern part of the desert.

Task2 Answer the following questions.

1 What are the names of the three great stretches of sandy

desert which circle the center of Australia?

2.Where is the Simpson Desert?

3 When did the first European enter the desert?

4 Who was Simpson?

They are Great Victoria Deserts, Gibbon, Great Sandy and

north , the Mulligan and the Diamantina Rivers in the east , and the

Macumba and Finke Rivers in the west

In 1845.

He was the president of the South Australian Branch of the

Royal Geographical Society of Australia.

5 How did E A Colson and an Australian Aborigine travel across the desert?

6 What are the dunes like in the western and northern part of the desert?

7 How many kinds of grass grow in the Simpson Desert?

What are they?

Task2 Answer the following questions.

They took camels across the desert.

In the western part, they are short , mostly less than 10 metres high, and in the northern part, they are parallel and are up to

20 metres high.

Two They are hummock grass and spinifex.

*Work in groups Discuss the question:

“What do you think about weather, plants, people, animals, water … in deserts?”

I think it’s very hot and dry in deserts There is little water

There are few trees animals and people living there People use camels to travel across

deserts…

Example:

*Read the story and answer the questions ( on page 99 in the textbook.)

** Learn by heart all the new words

*** Prepare the speaking lesson.