Unit 9. Deserts

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colony
climate
mountain
growth
discriminate
location
involvement
Unit 9: DESERTS
Lesson: Listening
Vocabulary:

1.cool
2.canal
3.needle
4.frightening
5.cactus
6.endless
(v)
(n)
(n)
(adj)
(n)
(adj)
làm nguội
kênh đào
vật nhọn hình kim
khủng khiếp
cây xương rồng
vô tận
2
3
5
Vocabulary:

1.cool
2.canal
3.needle
4.frightening
5.cactus
6.endless
(v)
(n)
(n)
(adj)
(n)
(adj)
làm nguội
kênh đào
vật nhọn hình kim
khủng khiếp
cây xương rồng
vô tận
2
3
5
a.vật nhọn hình kim
b.vô tận
c.cây xương rồng
d.kênh đào
e.làm nguội

f.khủng khiếp


1.cool
2.canal
3.needle
4.frightening
5.cactus
6.endless
A
B

Work in in pairs. Ask and answer the questions:
1.What is a desert?
2. How is a desert formed?
3. Can human beings make a desert? Why/Why not?
Listen and repeat:

frightening speed
Australia
Sahara
firewood
petroleum
Mauritania


Task 1. You will hear an expert talking about
deserts, what they are and how they are
formed. Listen to his talk and decide whether
the statements are true (T) or false (F)
1.In a desert, everything is hard.
2.Only trees with hard needles can grow in
deserts.
3.Space seems to have no limit in desert.
4.Nature causes the change in size and location
of the world’s deserts.
5.Rabits are one of the agents that help make
deserts in Australia.

T
F

Task 2. Listen again and answer the
following questions.
1.What central theme does the talk examine?

2.What is a desert?

3.What causes the growing of the world’s deserts?

4.In what way do rabbits contribute to the growing of deserts in Australia?

A
B
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GAME: Lucky number
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1.What central theme does the talk examine?
It examines deserts, what they are and how they are formed.

2.What is a desert?
It is a hot, dry, sandy place. It is also a beautiful land of silence and space. The sun shines, the wind blows, and time and space seem endless
3.What causes the growing of the world’s deserts?
Nature and humans.

4.In what way do rabbits contribute to the growing of deserts in Australia?
They contribute by eating every plant they can find. This makes the land become desert.

Task 3. Listen to part of the expert’s talk
again and fill in the missing word(s).
In developing countries, (1) of the people use wood for cooking and heat. They cut down trees for firewood. But trees are important. They cool the land under them and keep the sun off (2) .When leaves fall form a tree, they make the land richer. When the trees gone, the smaller plants die and the land becomes desert.
Humans can make deserts, but humans can also(3) their growth. Algeria planted a green wall of trees across the edge of the Sahara to stop the desert sand from (4) . Mauritania plant a similar wall around its (5) .Iran puts a covering of petroleum on sandy areas plant trees. Other countries build long (6) to bring water to the desert areas.

90 percent
smaller plants
prevent
spreading
canals
capital
Work in groups. Summarise the main ideas of the expert’s talk. Use the following suggestion

What is a desert?
What causes the growth of desert?
What should humans do to to prevent the growth of deserts?
Homework

-Ss learn by heart the new words
-Ss prepare lesson writing