Giáo án Tiếng anh 12: Unit 9 -Listening 12Cb

Giáo án Tiếng anh 12: Unit 9 -Listening 12Cb

Fill in each blank with one suitable word from the box.

1 The desert was named ……… a famous writer

2 A ……… is a low hill of sand formed by a wind in a desert

3 you can see hummock grasses on the ……… of dunes

in the Simpson Desert

4 Spenifex grows in the ……… between dunes and on the more stable slopes

5 The great Victoria Desert ………… to the North of Nullabor

crest dune desert stretches after corridors

Lesson 2:

Listening

Work in pairs. Ask and answer the following questions.

1 What is a desert?

2 How is a desert formed?

3 Can human beings make a desert? Why/ Why not?

* Vocabulary:

1 cool (a)  cool (r)

2 canal (n) [kə'nổl] kờnh, sụng đào

3 needle (n) ['ni:dl] kim,lá kim

4 colony (n) ['kɔləni] thuộc địa

5 firewood (n) ['faiəwud] củi

6 edge (n) [edʒ] rià, cạnh

7 petroleum (n) [pə'trouliəm]

Iraq is very rich in petroleum.

làm cho mát, nguội

dầu

canal

needle

colony

firewood

edge

kờnh, sụng đào

kim,lá kim thuộc địa

củi rià, cạnh

dầu

petroleum

frightening speed

Australia

Sahara

firewood

petroleum

Mauritania

Task1 Are the following statements true (T) or false (F)?

T F

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1 In a desert, everything is hard.

2 Only trees with hard needles can grow in desert.

3 Space seems to have no limit in the desert.

4.Nature causes the change in the size and

location of the world’s desert.

5.Rabbits are one of the agents that help make

deserts in Australia.

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Task 2 Answer the following questions

A

Task2 Answer the following questions.

1 What central theme does the talk examine?

2 What is a desert?

3 What causes the growing of the world’s deserts?

4 In what way do rabbits contribute to the growing of deserts in Australia?

It examines deserts, what they are and how they are formed.

It is a hot, dry, sandy place It is also a beautiful land of

silence and space The sun shines, the wind blows, and

time and space seem endless.

Nature and humans.

They contribute by eating every plant they can find

This makes the land become desert.

Task3 Fill in the missing word(s)

In the developing countries, (1) ……… of the

people use wood for cooking and heat They cut down

trees for firewood But trees are important They cool the land under them and keep the sun off (2) ……… When leaves fall from a tree, they make the land richer

When trees are gone, the small plants die and the land

becomes desert.

Humans can make deserts, but humans can also (3)…

……… their growth Algeria planted a green wall of

trees across the edge of the Sahara to stop the desert and sand from (4) ……… Mauritania planted a similar wall around its (5) ………… Iran puts a thin covering of petroleum on sandy areas and plant trees Other

countries build long (6) ……… to bring water to the

90 percent

smaller plants

prevent

spreading

capital

canals

Work in groups Summarize the main ideas of the expert’s Talk Use the following suggestions:

 What should humans do to prevent the

growth of deserts?

Question 1.

1 What central theme does the talk examine?

A It examines deserts, what they are and how they are formed.

B It examines plants and animals.

C It examines sand in deserts

D B & C are correct.

A

Question 2.

What is a desert?

A It is a hot, dry, sandy place.

B

B It is also a beautiful land of silence and space.

C

C The sun shines, the wind blows, and time and space seem endless.

D

D A, B, and C are correct.

D

Question 3.

What causes the growing of the world’s deserts?

C Nature and humans.

B Nature.

D Humans.

A Sand.

C

Question 4

In what way do rabbits contribute to the growing of deserts in Australia?

This makes the land become desert.

A They contribute by cutting every plant they can find.

D They destroy every plant they can find.

C They contribute by planting every plant they can find.

B

Congratulation!