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Ask and answer the following questions.1.. What kinds of plants and animals live in a desert2. There is very little rainfall there; very few people and animals except for in oases3. Are

Lesson 1 Reading

* 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?

They are the large area of sand without tree and water,

but with severe climates, very hot during the day and very

cold at night There is very little rainfall there; very few

people and animals except for in oases

Only cacti and a kind of spinifex can grow

Australia, Mongolia, the USA and North Africa

Before you read.

** Vocabulary:

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

2 aerial (n) ['eəriəl] ở trên không

3 camel (n) : Con l ['kæməl] ạc đà

4 dune (n) [dju:n] đụn, cồn cát

5 network (n) ['netwə:k] mạng lưới

6 hummock (n) ['hʌmək] g ò , đống

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

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

9 slope (n) [sləup] dốc thoai thoải

10 Steep slope (n) Dốc d ựng đứng

Task 1 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

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.

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 While you read.

Task2 Answer the following questions.

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

desert which circle the center of Australia?

3 When did the first European enter the desert?

4 Who was Simpson?

A Great Victoria Deserts

B Gibbon, Great Sandy and Tanami Deserts

C Simpson Desert.

D Both A, B and C.

A Lake Eyre in the south

B The Macdonnel Ranges in the north

C The Mulligan and the Diamantina Rivers in the east

D The Macumba and Finke Rivers in the west.

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 across the desert.

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

*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:

After you read.

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

** Learn by heart all the new words

*** Prepare the speaking lesson.

Do the crossword puzzle to complete this sentence.

Do you know any … in the world?

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

y

1.It is illegal for Tango’s islanders to make and use ….

2 He went to the post office to … some letters.

3 My sister is good at … 4 I’ll come to see you at the … of this month 5 He often … newspapers while he is having breakfast..

6 You’d better Smoking.

7 My brother isn’t so tall … you.