Unit 9. Deserts

WELL COME TO OUR CLASS
She is standing on the desert.
What do you know about deserts?
Where is she standing?
Lesson 1: Reading
unit
What do you know about deserts?
-large areas of sand
-very hot during the day
-very cold during the night
-very little rainfall
-very few people and animals
live there
AMERICA ,CHINA and AUSTRALIA
Can you name some of the countries which have a desert?
*Vocabulary
Sandy(adj):có cát
Aerial survey(n) /`e∂ri∂l/ cuộc trắc lượng trên không


Royal Geographical Society of Australia: hội địa lý hoàng gia Uc
Stretch(n):dải
dân Uc
Australia Aborigine (n): thổ dân Uc
Dune/dju:n/ :đụn cát,cồn cát
Sloping(adj):dốc thoai thoải
Steep(adj): dốc đứng
Hummock(n):gò,đống
Crest(n):đỉnh(gò,đống)
Spinifex(n): cỏ lá nhọn
1.stretch (n):
2.sandy (adj):
3.aerial survey (n):
4.Royal Geographical Society of Australia (n):
5.Australian Aborigine(n):
6.dune (n):
7.sloping (adj):
8.steep (adj):
9.hummock (n):
10.Crest (n):
11.Spinifex (n):
dải (sa mạc,cát…)
có cát
cuộc trắc lượng trên không
Hội địa lý hoàng gia Uc
thổ dân óc
đụn cát
dốc thoai thoải
dốc đứng
gò,đống
đỉnh(gò,đống)
cỏ lá nhọn
vocabulary
1.stretch (n):
2.sandy (adj):
3.aerial survey (n):
4.Royal Geographical Society of Australia (n):
5.Australian Aborigine(n):
6.dune (n):
7.sloping (adj):
8.steep (adj):
9.hummock (n):
10.Crest (n):
11.Spinifex (n):
Task: 2 Decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F)
T F
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.
4.Colson and Madigan travelled 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.
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circle the centre of Australia(p1,L1)
one of the largest ones (p1,L1& the news)
(p2,L5,6,7)
in 1939(three years later-P3,L1-3-4-5)
there is a network of short dunes(P4,L2)
(p 5,L1&5-6)
1.What are the names of the three great stretches of sandy desert which circle the centre of Australia?
2. Where is the Simpson Desert?
3. When did the first European enter the desert?
4. Who was Simpson?
5. How did E. A. Colson and an Australian Aborigine travel across the desert?
6. How many kinds of grass grow in the Simpson Desert? What are they?
ANSWERS
1.They’re Great Victoria Deserts,Gibbon,Great Sandy and Tanami Deserts and Simpson Desert.
2.It lies between Lake Eyre in the south,the MacDonald Ranges in the north,the Mulligan and the Diamanita Rivers in the east, and the Macuba and Finke Rivers in the west.
3.In 1845.
4.He was the President of the South Australia Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia.
5.They took camels across the desert.
6.Two. They are hummock grasses and spinifex.
P.1
P.2,L 1,2,3.
P2,L4.
P2,L6,7.
P3,L1
P4,L3-4.
1. Learn vocabulary by heart.
2. Do exercises in the workbook.
3. Prepare the next lesson : B. Speaking
homework
Thank you
and goodbye