Unit 9. Deserts

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Teacher: Huyønh Ñaëng Thanh Lam
ENGLISH 12
Unit 9: DESERTS
Lesson 1: READING
Warm-up
warmer
Kim’s game
sandy hot cold dune
camel water windy people dry
Lesson 1: Reading
Unit 9: Deserts
Pre – teach vocabulary:
Pre reading
(a ) hummock:
Gò, đống
Pre – teach vocabulary:
Pre reading
(a) Spinifex:
Cây laù nhoïn
Pre – teach vocabulary:
Pre reading
(an ) aerial survey :
Trắc lượng trên không
Pre – teach vocabulary:
Pre reading
Australian Aborigine:
Thổ dân Úc
Pre – teach vocabulary:
(a) corridor:
Đường hành lang
(a) hummock:
gò, đống
(a) spinifex:
cỏ lá nhọn
(a) aerial survey:
trắc lượng trên không
(a) corridor:
Đường hành lang
Pre – teach vocabulary:
Australian Aborigine:
Thổ dân Úc
Pre – reading :
Pre reading
Task 1: Match the words/ phrases with íts suitable meaning:
1. stretch:
4. dune:
2. sandy:
3. Royal Geographical
Society of Australia:
5. slope:
Kéo dài, trãi rộng
Đầy cát
Đụn cát
Hội địa lý hoàng gia Úc
Dốc
Pre – reading :
Pre reading
While reading task
While reading
Task 2: Decide whether the statements are True (T) or false (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.
F
F
T
While – reading :
While reading
4. Colson and Madigan traveled 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.
F
F
T
Task2. Answer the following questions.
1. What are the names of the three great stretches of sandy
desert which circle the center of Australia?
2.Where is the Simpson Desert? – It is between…..
Great Victoria Deserts.
Gibbon, Great Sandy and Tanami Deserts .
Simpson Desert.
Both A, B and C.
A. Lake Eyre in the south, the Macdonnel Ranges in the north.
B. The Mulligan and the Diamantina Rivers in the east.
C. The Macumba and Finke Rivers in the west.
D. Both of them
president
In 1845
3. When did the first European enter the desert?
4. Who was Simpson?
B. In 1854
C. In 1929 D. 1992
He was the ________ of the South Australian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia.
A. worker B. explorer C. D. King
5. How did E. A. Colson nd an Australian Aborigine
travel across the desert?
6. How many kinds of grass grow in the
Simpson Desert? What are they?
Task2. Answer the following questions.
They took ________ across the desert.
A. Two.
A. Dog C. horse D. lorry
B. camel
They are hummock grass and spinifex
B. Three C. four. D. five.
*Work in groups. Discuss the question:
“What do you think about weather, plants, people,
animals, water … in deserts?”
I think it’s very hot and dry in deserts. There is little water. There are few trees, animals and people living there. People use camels to travel across deserts…
Example:
After you read.
Post– reading :
Post reading
Lesson 1: Reading
Homework
Good bye & Good luck!!
Learn vocabulary by heart.
Write the answers on your notebooks
- Prepare new lesson:
Lesson2: Speaking