Unit 09 deserts listening

Unit 9: Deserts – Listening – Before listening... Only trees with hard needles can grow in deserts 1.. T True or False statement Unit 9: Deserts – Listening – Task 1: True or False In a

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Teacher : Phan Thị Thạch

Pair-work: Discuss the following

questions

1 What is a desert?

2 How is a desert formed?

3 Can human beings make a desert?

Why/ why not?

Unit 9: Deserts – Listening – Before listening

Listen and repeat:

- Frightening speed

- Australia

- Sahara

- Firewood

- Petroleum

- Mauritania

Unit 9: Deserts – Listening – Vocabulary

Many of the plants, such as the cactus, have hard needles instead of leaves

Space seems to have no limit in the desert.

Only trees with hard needles can grow in deserts

1 T

2 F

3 T

4 F

5 T

True or False statement

Unit 9: Deserts – Listening – Task 1: True or False

In a desert, everything is hard Nothing is soft

This is partly because of natural changes, But the greatest desert makers are humans.

Nature causes the change in the size and location of the world deserts.

Rabbits are one of the agents that help make deserts in Australia.

There a millions of rabbit in Aus, and they eatevery plant they can find… Space seem endless.

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

Unit 9: Deserts – Listening – Task 2

Listen and answer the questions:

1 It examines deserts, what they are

and how they are formed.

2 It is a hot, dry, sandy place It is also a

beautiful land of silence and space

3 Nature and humans

4 They contribute by eating every

plant they can find This makes

the land become deserts

In 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 the trees gone, the smaller 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 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 desert areas.

Unit 9: Deserts – Listening – Task 3: Gap filling

90 percent

smaller plants

prevent

spreading

capital

canals

Unit 9: Deserts – Listening – After

Listening

1 The talk examines… what they are and how they are formed

a deserts b animals c sand

2 Desert is a hot, dry and … place

a peaceful b endless c sandy

3 Desert is also a beautiful land of …… and space

a nature b silence c mountains

4 …and ….cause the growing of the world`s deserts

a Nature and animals b Animals and humans c Nature and humans

5 Rabbits contribute to the growing of deserts in Australia

They…… every plant they can find

a destroy b eat c keep

…(1) OF THE

(6)