Unit 09 undersea world reading

Thái Bình DươngẤn Độ Dương Đại Tây Dương Bắc Băng Dương Nam Băng Dương... While you read : Task 1 : The words in the box all appear in the passage.. Task 1 :filling in the blank with o

Unit 9

Undersea world

A Reading.

• Before you read :

Work with a partner Look at the map and give the Vietnamese names for the oceans on the map.

Thái Bình Dương

Ấn Độ Dương Đại Tây Dương

Bắc Băng Dương

Nam Băng Dương

• Work with a partner:

Look at the picture below Can you name the sea animal in each picture? The first letter of the word has been given to help you

Seal Dolphin

Shark Jellyfish

Starfish

Turtle

Seahorse

New words of the reading text1 Bay (n) vịnh

2 Mystery (n) điều huyền bí

Mysterious (a)

Mysteriously (adv)

3 Beneath (prep): dưới

Ex: The boat sank beneath the waves

4 Submarine (n) tàu ngầm

5 Marine life (n) cuộc sống dưới biển

6 Fall into (v)= to be able to be divided into sth được chia thành

7 water current (n) dòng nước

8 Organism (n) a living being sinh vật

Ex: Our environment is at stake so we have to join together to save it.

Ex: How many events contributed to the

liberation of women?

Ex: We admire his great contribution to Vietnam education system.

New words of the reading text

While you read :

Task 1 : The words in the box all appear in the

passage Fill each blank with one of them There are more words than needed

Task 1 :

filling in the blank with one of the words in the box

1 Gulf: vịnh

2 Investigate: điều tra

3 Oversized : quá khổ

4 Tiny : rất nhỏ

5 Biodiversity: đa dạng sinh thái

6 samples: mẫu

7.Challenges: thử thách

8 Provide: cung cấp

1 Some plants and animal are referred to as organisms

because they are extremely small

2 Thanks to modern technology , scientists have been able to

_ the life of plants and animal that live under the sea

3 A _ is a large area of sea that is partly surrounded by land

4 is a term that refers to the existence of different kinds

of animals and plants which make a balanced environment

5 These scientists have collected different to analyse for

their experiment

tiny

investigate gulf

Biodiversity

samples

1 It is one of Vietnam's most popular tourist destinations and was world heritage listed by UNESCO in 1994

world heritage listed by UNESCO in 1994

pair of claws

oceans ?

H A L O N G B A Y

C R A B

7 5 P E R C E N T

S H A R K

M O D E R N D E V I C E S

Task 2

Read the passage again and then answer the

following questions

by seas and oceans?

75 % of the earth’s surface

2 How do scientists now overcome the challenges of

the depth?

By using modern services

3 What can submarines do to help scientists know

about the undersea world?

They investigate the seabed and bring samples of

the marine life back to the surface for further study

Task 2

4 What can we learn from the satellite photos?

We can know a wide range of information, including water temperature, depth and the undersea

populations

5 What are the three groups of marine plants and

animals?

They are those that live on or depend on the bottom like the starfish, those that move independently of

water currents and those that are carried along by the currents

6 What would happen if the sea biodiversity were not maintained?

The marine life would be at stake if the sea

biodiversity was not maintained

After you read :

•

Work with a partner:

Complete the summary of the reading passage

by filling each blank with a word or phrase given

in the box below

Though covering of the earth’s

surface ,

the ocean has remained to us until

recently

With _ technology we have now made

important

about the of marine life We have learnt that whether tiny or , all the _ of the sea are _

three - quarters

three - quarters

mysterious

mysterious

modern

discoveries biodiversity

huge plants and animals closely connected