Bài giảng Tiếng Anh 12 unit 9: Deserts

She is standing on the desert .What do you know about deserts?. Sandyadj:có cát Aerial surveyn /'e ∂ ri ∂ l/ cuộc trắc lượng trên không Royal Geographical Society of Australia: hội đị

She is standing on the desert

What do you know about deserts?

Where is she standing?

Lesson 1: Reading

What do you know about deserts?

-large areas of sand

-very hot during the day -very cold during the night -very little rainfall

-very few people and animals live there

AMERICA ,CHINA and AUSTRALIA

Can you name some of the countries which have a

desert?

Sandy(adj):có cát

Aerial survey(n) /'e ∂ ri ∂ l/ cuộc trắc lượng trên không

Royal Geographical Society

of Australia: hội địa lý hoàng gia Uc

Stretch(n): dải

dân Uc Australia Aborigine

(n): thổ dân Uc

Dune/dju:n/ : đụn cát,cồn cát

Sloping(adj): dốc

thoai thoải

Steep(adj):

dốc đứng

Hummock(n): gò,đống Crest(n): đỉnh(gò,đống)

Spinifex(n): cỏ lá nhọn

dải (sa mạc,cát…)

có cát cuộc trắc lượng trên không Hội địa lý hoàng

gia Úc thổ dân óc đụn cát

dốc thoai thoải dốc đứng

gò,đống đỉnh(gò,đống)

cỏ lá nhọn

1.stretch (n):

2.sandy (adj):

3.aerial survey (n):

4.Royal Geographical

Society of Australia (n):

5.Australian Aborigine(n):

6.dune (n):

7.sloping (adj):

8.steep (adj):

9.hummock (n):

10.Crest (n):

11.Spinifex (n):

Task: 2 Decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F)

T F

1 According to the passage, there are three great deserts in Australia

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

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circle the centre of Australia(p1,L1) one of the largest ones (p1,L1& the news)

(p2,L5,6,7)

in 1939(three years later-P3,L1-3-4-5)

there is a network of short dunes(P4,L2)

(p 5,L1&5-6)

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

desert which circle the centre of Australia?

2 Where is the Simpson Desert?

3 When did the first European enter the desert?

4 Who was Simpson?

5 How did E A Colson and an Australian Aborigine travel

across the desert?

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

What are they?

1.They’re Great Victoria Deserts,Gibbon,Great Sandy and Tanami Deserts and Simpson Desert.

2.It lies between Lake Eyre in the south,the

MacDonald Ranges in the north,the Mulligan and

the Diamanita Rivers in the east, and the Macuba

and Finke Rivers in the west.

3.In 1845.

4.He was the President of the South Australia Branch

of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia.

5.They took camels across the desert.

6.Two They are hummock grasses and spinifex.

P.1

P.2,L 1,2,3.

P2,L4.

P2,L6,7 P3,L1

P4,L3-4.

1 Learn vocabulary by heart.

2 Do exercises in the workbook.

3 Prepare the next lesson : B Speaking