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 To help them scan and find information about Simpson Desert in Australia.. * Activity 2: presenting vocabulary sand dunes n = mound of loose sand formed by wind - Students listen to

Date of preparation: Teaching date:

Class : 12b 2 , 12b 3

UNIT 9: DESERTS

I Objectives:By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:

 Guess the meaning of words/ phrases in contexts and pictures

 Scan for specific information about Simpson Desert

 summarize the text

1 Educational aim:

 To help students to read and guess the meaning of words/ phrases in contexts and pictures

 To help them scan and find information about Simpson Desert in Australia

2 Knowledge:

Nouns : sand dunes, slope, steep, hummock grasses, crest, spinifex

3 Skill: Reading

II Teaching aids: textbook, computer, multi-projector

III Procedure:

Teacher’s activities Students’ activities

 WARM-UP: (06 minutes)

Guessing: What is this?

- It is a very large place

- It is very hot and dry

- There is a lot of sand there

 PRE – READ: (14 minutes)

* Activity 1:ask and answer the 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?

* Activity 2: presenting vocabulary

sand dunes (n) = mound of loose sand formed by

wind

- Students listen to the teacher’s guiding and guess what it is:

Answer key: DESERTS

- Read the questions and thinks about the topic

1 dry, few trees, little or no water, little rainfall, few people and animals live in a desert…

2 cactus /’kkts/: cây xương rồng, camel /’kml/: con lạc đà, pasture /’ps/: cỏ, date palm: cây chà

là …

3 Sahara in the north of Africa (about 9.000.000 km2, Simson in Australia … cồn cát, đụn cát

slope /sloup/ (n)

Steep /stp/ (n) = sloping sharply

hummock grasses /’hmk/ (n)

crest (n) = top (of mountain)

spinifex /’spnfeks/ (n) = a kind of grass

* Activity 3: True/ False guessing

TRUE / FALSE STATEMENTS T / F

1.There are three great deserts inAustralia.

2.In 1929, the desert was named afterSimpson.

3 The dunes are same all over the desert

4.There are more dunes in the Westernpart of the desert.

5.Dry salt lakes are in the northern part ofthe desert.

WHILE - READ: (17 minutes)

* Task 2: True/ False statements

- Ask students to read the passage and do the true/

false statements

- Give feedback

* Task 3: (group work) asking and answering the

questions

- Asks students to work in groups and read the

passage again to answer the questions

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 1st European enter the desert?

4 Who was Simpson?

5 How did Colson and an Australia Aborigine

travel across the desert?

6 What are the dunes like in the western and the

northern parts of the desert?

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- Students use their knowledge to guess and decide which sentence is correct

- Students read the passage and correct their prediction

1.There are three great deserts inAustralia. F

2.In 1929, the desert was namedafter Simpson. T

3.The dunes are same all over thedesert. F

4.There are more dunes in theWestern part of the desert. F

5.Dry salt lakes are in the northernpart of the desert. T

- Students work in groups of 4, read and answer the questions

1 They are Great Victoria Desert, Gibbon, Great Sandy and Tanami Desert, and Great Simpson Desert

2 It lies between Lake Eyre in the south, the Macdonnel Ranges in the north, the Mulligan and the Diamantina Rivers in the east, and the Macumba and Finke Rivers in the west

3 In 1845

7 How may kinds of grass grow in the Simpson

Desert? What are they?

POST – READ: (7 minutes)

* Finding the location

- Ask students to remind and write down the

location of the Simpson Desert

HOMEWORK: (3 minutes)

Read the story and answer the questions in the

After you read (page 99) and do task 1 (page 98)

4 He was the President of the South Australian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia

5 They took camels across the desert

6 In the western part, they are short, mostly less than 10 meters high, and in the northern part, they are parallel and are up to 20 meters high

7 Two They are hummock grasses and spinifex

- Students work individually and then compare with the others

Simpson Desert

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Simpson Desert

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S The Macdonnel Ranges

Lake Eyre

The Mulligan river The Diamantia

The Macumba river The Finke river

The Macdonnel Ranges

The Macumba river The Finke river