Unit 9. Deserts

Unit 9: Deserts

Part A: Reading
Before you read
*/ Activity 1: Study the following pictures and then ask and answer the questions.
Picture 2
Picture 4
Picture 3
What do you know about deserts?
What kinds of plants and animals live in a desert?
Name some of the countries which have deserts.
Picture 1
camel
spinifex
dune
snake
*/ Activity 2: Vocabulary
E.g.
This dictionary comprises about 65,000 words.
corridor (n): hµnh lang
to circle (ed): bao quanh, v©y quanh
to comprise (ed) (=to consist of): bao gåm
Unit 9: Deserts

Part A: Reading
Before you read
While you read
*/ Activity 1: Listen to the tape one time and then answer the questions:
1/ What is the reading passage about?
2/ How many paragraphs are there in the passage?
*/ Activity 2: Doing the tasks:
*/ Task 1: Give the Vietnamese equivalents to the following words or phrases
*/ Task 1: Give the Vietnamese equivalents to the following words or phrases
E.g.
1. stretch: _________
dải (đất )
2. sandy: ___________
Có cát
3. Aerial survey : ______________
Cuộc khảo sát trên không
4. Royal Geographical Society of Australia:
___________________________________
Hội địa lí Hoàng gia Ôxtrâylia
5. Australian Aborigine: _________________

thô dân Ôxtrâylia
6. dune: _______________________
đụn cát, đồi cát
7. slope: ____________________
Dốc thoai thoải
8. steep: _______________________
Dốc đứng, dốc thẳng
9. hummock: _______________
Gò, đống
10. crest: ____________
đỉnh (gò, đống)
11. spinifex: ________________
Cỏ lá nhọn
*/ Task 1: Give the Vietnamese equivalents to the following words or phrases
stretch: ___________
sandy: ___________
aerial survey: ______________
Royal Geographical Society of Australia:
__________________
5. Australian Aborigine: ____________
trải dài, kéo dài
có cát
trắc lượng trên không
Hội địa lí Hoàng gia Ôxtrâylia
thổ dân Ôxtrâylia
6. dune: ________
7. slope: __________
8. steep: ______________
9. hummock: ______
10. crest: ___________
11. spinifex: _____________________________
đụn cát
dốc thoai thoải
dốc đứng, dốc ngược
gò, đống
đỉnh (gò, đống)
cỏ lá nhọn sống ở vùng sa mạc Ôxtrâylia
*/ 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 first European entered the Simpson Desert in 1945 _____
3. The desert was named after Simpson in 1929 ___
4. Colson and Madigan travelled across the Simpson Desert in 1936 _____
6. Dry salt lakes are in the northern part of the desert _____
_____
F (sentence 1, paragraph 1)
F
T
F
T
*/ Task 3: Answer the questions on p. 98 (in Textbook)
3- in 1845
4- He was the President of the South Australian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia.
E.g.
1- What are the names of the three great stretches of sandy desert which circle the centre of Australia?
 They are Great Victoria Deserts, Gibbon, Great Sandy and Tanami Deserts and Simpson Desert.
2. Where is the Simpson Desert?
 (It lies) between Lake Erye in the south, the Macdonel Ranges in the north, the Mulligan and the diamantina Rivers in the east, and the Macumba and Finke Rivers in the west.
3. When did the first European enter the desert?
 (He entered the Simpson Desert) in 1845.
4. Who was Simpson?
 (He was) President of the South Australian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia.
5. How did E.A. Colson and an Australian Aborigine travel across the desert?
 They took camels across the desert.
6. What are the dunes like in the western and northern parts of the desert?
 6. In the western part of the desert, they are short, mostly less than 10 metres high; in the northern part of the desert, they are parallel and separated by corridors of low, open shrub land.
7. How many kinds of grass grow in the Simpson Desert? What are they?
 7. Two. They are hummock grasses and spinifex.
After you read
- desert
- dessert
(n) /dI`zз:t/ : any sweet food eaten at the end of a meal:
Tanami Desert
Simpson Desert
Nullabor Plain
Lake Eyre
Macdonnel Ranges
Mulligan River
Diamantina River
Finke River
6. spinifex ____________