Unit 9. Deserts

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Unit 9: Deserts

Part A: Reading
Before you read
*/ Study the following pictures
Picture 2
Picture 4
Picture 3
*/ Ask and answer the following questions
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
dune
scorpion
cactus
camel
Unit 9: Deserts

Part A: Reading
Before you read
While you read
*/ Activity 1: Read the passage quickly and then answer the following questions:
1/ What is the passage about?
2/ How many paragraphs are there in the passage?
*/ Geographical names:
Nullabor Plain
Great Victoria
Gibbon
Tanami
Lake Eyre
Simpson Desert
Macdonnel Ranges
Mulligan
Diamantina
Macumba
Finke
*/ Activity 2: Doing the tasks on page 98:
*/ Task 1: Give the Vietnamese equivalents to the following words or phrases
*/ Task 1: Give the Vietnamese equivalents to the following words or phrases
1. stretch:
(n): dải (đất )
(v): kéo dài, trải dài
*/ Task 1: Give the Vietnamese equivalents to the following words or phrases
2. sandy (adj): ___________
Có cát
3. Aerial survey (n) : ______________
Cuộc khảo sát trên không
4. Royal Geographical Society of Australia:
___________________________________
Hội địa lí Hoàng gia Ôxtrâylia
5. Australian Aborigine: _________________

thổ dân Ôxtrâylia
6. dune (n): _______________________
đụn cát, đồi cát
7. sloping/slope (n): __________________
dốc thoai thoải
8. steep (n): _______________________
dốc đứng, dốc thẳng
9. hummock (n): _______________
gò, đống
10. crest (n): ____________
đỉnh (gò, đống)
11. spinifex (n): ________________
cỏ lá nhọn
*/ Task 1: Give the Vietnamese equivalents to the following words or phrases
stretch: ___________
sandy (adj): ___________
aerial survey: ______________
Royal Geographical Society of Australia:
__________________
5. Australian Aborigine: ____________
(v) trải dài, kéo dài; (n) dải (đất)
có cát
trắc lượng trên không
Hội địa lí Hoàng gia Ôxtrâylia
thổ dân Ôxtrâylia
6. dune (n): ________
7. sloping/slope (n): __________
8. steep (n): ______________
9. hummock (n): ______
10. crest (n): ___________
11. spinifex (n): ____________________________
đụn cát, đồi cát
dốc thoai thoải
dốc đứng, dốc thẳng
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 _____
*/ Task 2: Decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F)
According to the passage, there are three great deserts in Australia _____
F (line 1, 2, paragraph 1)
2. The first European entered the Simpson Desert in 1945 _____
F (line 4, paragraph 2)
3. The desert was named after Simpson in 1929 _________

T (line 6, 7, paragraph 2)
4. Colson and Madigan travelled across the Simpson Desert in 1936 ____

F (line 1, 2, paragraph 3)
6. Dry salt lakes are in the northern part of the desert _____
T (line 1, 5,6, paragraph 5)
*/ Task 3: Answer the questions on p. 98 (in Textbook)
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) the 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?
 In the western part, they are short, mostly less than 10 metres high; and in the northern part, they are parallel and are up to 20 metres high.
7. How many kinds of grass grow in the Simpson Desert? What are they?
 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 (mãn tr¸ng miÖng)
- interpreter (n): ng­êi phiªn dÞch
- businessman (n): th­¬ng gia
Instead of saying: “What would you like for your dessert?”
/dI`zз:t/ :
He said: “What would you like for your desert?”
/`dezǝt/
This is the end of our lesson today.
Thank you very much and goodbye!
This is the end of our lesson today.
Thank you very much and goodbye!
Tanami Desert
Simpson Desert
Nullabor Plain
Lake Eyre
Macdonnel Ranges
Mulligan River
Diamantina River
Finke River
6. spinifex ____________
*/ 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