unit9-READING

Sandyadj:có cát Aerial surveyn /'e∂ri∂l/ cuộc trắc lượng trên không Royal Geographical Society of Australia: hội địa lý hoàng gia Uc Stretchn:dải... dân UcAustralia Aborigine n: thổ dân

Where are you going?

I’m travelling to…

America

Japan

China

paris

australia

vietnam

Which country has

deserts?

AMERICA ,CHINA and AUSTRALIA

Unit 9: DESERTS

Lesson: Reading

What do you know about deserts?

plants and animals live in

a desert?

Name some of the countries which have deserts?

-large areas of sand

-very hot during the day

-very cold during the night

-very little rainfall

-very few people and animals

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 UcAustralia 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):/'spainif∂ks/ cỏ

lá nhọn

Task 1:Rewrite the Vietnamese equivalents to the following words or phrases.

cuộc trắc lượng trên không

Hội địa lý hoàng gia Uc

thổ dân Uc đụn cát

dốc thoai thoải dốc đứng

gò,đống đỉnh(gò,đống)

cỏ lá nhọn

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.

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

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

( p 5,L1&5-6)

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

6.What are the dunes like in the western northern

parts of the desert?

5 How did E A Colson and an Australian Aborigine

travel across the desert?

4 Who was Simpson?

3 When did the first European enter the desert?

2 Where is the Simpson Desert?

1.What are the names of the three great stretches of sandy desert which circle the centre of Australia?

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.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

7.Two They are hummock grasses and spinifex

P.1

P.2,L 1,2,3.

P2,L4.

P2,L6,7 P3,L1

P4,L1-2 -3&P5,L1-6

Read the story, please. Is the story

1 Learn vocabulary by heart.

2 Do exercises in the workbook.

3 Prepare the next lesson : B Speaking