Unit 9. Deserts

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Tuesday, January 05th 2010
Unit 9: DESERTS
Period 1: A. Reading

I. Before you read
Look at the pictures and answer the following questions:
1. Where are these pictures?
2. What do people often see in the desert?
3. How many main deserts are there in the world?
4. Do you know one of them? - Have you ever heard Simpson Desert?
* Where do you know?
It is Australia where has Simpson Desert.
* What do you know about it?
1. Task 1 Match the words and phrases in the first column with their Vietnamese equivalents in the second column.
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2. Task 2 Read the passage again and 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.
2. The Simpson Desert is the largest one in Australia.
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4. Colson and Madigan travelled across the Simpson Desert in 1936.
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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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3. Task 3 Choose the best answer A, B or C to complete the following sentences
1.The names of three great stretches of sandy desert which circle the centre of Australia are……….
A. Great Victoria Deserts, Gibbon,
Great Sandy and Tanami Deserts and Simpson Desert.
B. Great Victoria Deserts, Lake Eyre, The Macdonnel
Ranges and Simpson Deserts.

C. Simpson Deserts, The Macumba and Finke Rivers
and Great Victoria Deserts.
2. The first European entered the Simpson Desert in ...…..
A. 1929
B. 1845
C. 1854
3……… was the President of the South Australian Branch
of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia.
A. Madigan
B. Colson
C. Simpson
4. In 1936, Colson and an Australian Aborigine took………..
Across the desert.
A. camels
B. horses
C. dogs
5. In the western part of the desert, there is a network of short dunes, mostly less than ……….. metres high.
A. 10
B. 15
C. 20
6. There are ….. kinds of grasses grow in the Simpson Desert, they are hummock and spinifex.
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
Scan the reading and write down the location of the Simpson Desert.
1.The Macdonnel Ranges
4.The Macumba
river
The Finke river
2.The Mulligan river
The Diamantina
3. Lake Eyre
Simpson Desert
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Thank you for your attention
Good bye, see you again.