Unit 9. Deserts

LESSON : READING ( ENGLISH 12)
Time allotted: 45 minutes
Aims:
To help students to read and guess the meaning of words/ phrases in contexts and pictures.
To help them scan and find information about Simpson desert in Australia.
Objectives: at the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:
guess the meaning of words/ phrases in contexts and pictures.
scan for specific information about Simpson Desert.
summarize the text
Lexical items:
Nouns: sand dunes, slope, steep, hummock grasses, crest, spinifex

Teaching aids: textbook, computer, multi-projector
WARM – UP (06 minutes)
STAGE 1: BEFORE YOU READ (14 minutes)
* Activity 1:ask and answer the questions
* Activity 2: presenting vocabulary
* Activity 3: True/ False guessing
STAGE 2: WHILE YOU READ (17 minutes)
* Listening to the passage and silent reading
* Task 2: True/ False statements
* Task 3: (group work) asking and answering the questions
STAGE 3: AFTER YOU READ (7 minutes)
* finding the location
HOMEWORK (01 minutes)





Welcome Teachers to our class !
Class: 12

NETWORK
DESERTS
List words/ phrases related to deserts
Lesson 1: READING
1. What kinds of plants and animals live in a desert?
2. Name some countries which have deserts.


Unit 9 : DESERTS
Lesson 1: READING
VOCABULARY
sand dunes (n)
mound of loose sand formed by wind
slope (n)
sloping sharply
steep (n)
hummock grasses (n)
crest (n)
top (of mountain)
spinifex (n)
a kind of grass
CHECKING VOCABULARY
- sand dunes
RUB OUT AND REMEMBER
- crest
- slope
- steep
- hummock grasses
- spinifex
cồn cát, đụn cát
dốc
dốc đứng
cỏ gò
đỉnh, ngọn
cỏ lá nhọn
SIMPSON DESERT
SIMPSON DESERT

TRUE / FALSE STATEMENTS

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TASK

TRUE / FALSE STATEMENTS

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Task
ASK & ANSWER THE QUESTIONS
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 1st European enter the desert ?
4. Who was Simpson ?
5. How did Colson and an Australia Aborigine travel across the desert ?
6. What are the dunes like in the western and the northern parts of the desert ?
7. How may kinds of grass grow in the Simpson Desert? What are they?

Task
ANSWERS
1. What are the names of the three great stretches of sandy desert which circle the centre of Australia?




1. They are Great Victoria Desert, Gibbon, Great Sandy and Tanami Desert, and Great Simpson Desert.
2. Where is the Simpson Desert ?
2. It lies between Lake Eyre in the south, the Macdonnel Ranges in the north, the Mulligan and the Diamantia Rivers in the east, and the macumba and Finke Rivers in the west.
3. When did the 1st European enter the desert ?
3. In 1845
Task
ANSWERS
4. Who was Simpson ?

4. He was the President of the South Australian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia .
5. How did Colson and an Australia Aborigine travel across the desert?
5. They took camels across the desert .

6. What are the dunes like in the western and the northern parts of the desert?
6. 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 may kinds of grass grow in the Simpson Desert ? What are they?

7. Two. They are hummock grasses and spinifex.

Write down the location of the Simpson Desert
Simpson Desert
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Write down the location of the Simpson Desert
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Desert
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The Macdonnel Ranges
Lake Eyre
The Mulligan river
The Diamantia
The Macumba river
The Finke river
The Macdonnel Ranges
The Macumba river
The Finke river
Read the story and answer the questions in the After you read (page 99) and do task 1 (page 98)
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