Bài soạn Unit 9 Listening

Can humans being make a desert?. Only trees with hard needles can grow in deserts • 3.. Nature causes the change in the size and location of the world’s deserts • 5... It examines desert

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• Match each word with each picture

1 date palm

4 rabbit

2 cactus

5 spinifex

3 camel

6 desert

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Lesson 3 Listening Period 57

What is this?

I Before you listen

What is a desert?

Can humans being make a desert? Why/ Why not?

• Frightening speed

• Firewood

• Petroleum

• Expert

• Needle

• Hard >< soft

• Limit

• Endless

II While you listen

• Task 1

• 1 In a desert, everything is hard

• 2 Only trees with hard needles can grow in deserts

• 3 Space seem to have no limit in the desert

• 4 Nature causes the change in the size and location

of the world’s deserts

• 5 Rabbit are one of the agents that help make

deserts in Australia

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

Nothing is soft

Time and space seem endless

Nature and humans

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Task 2 Answer the following questions

1 What central theme does the talk examine?

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

2 What is a desert?

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

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

Nature and humans

4 In what way do rabbits contribute to the growing

Task 3 Listen and fill in the missing word(s)

use wood for cooking and heat They cut down trees for firewood But tree are important They cool the land

under them and keep the sun off ……… When leaves fall from a tree, they make the land richer When the trees are gone, the smaller plants die and the land become desert

• Humans can make deserts, but humans can

also……… their growth Algeria planted a

green wall of trees across the edge of the Sahara to

stop the desert sand from ……… Mauritania planted a similar wall around its……… Iran put a thin covering of petroleum on sandy area and

(1)

(5) (4)

(3)

(2)

90 percent

smaller plants

prevent

spreading

capital

III After you listen

Thank you for your attention !!!