The life in The Desert (Reading)

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Unit 9: Deserts

Part A: Reading

Before you read

*/ Study the following pictures

Picture 3

*/ Ask and answer the following questions

1 What do you know about deserts?

2 What kinds of plants and animals live in a desert?

3 Name some of the countries which have deserts.

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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?

*/ 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

2 sandy (adj): _Cã c¸t

3 Aerial survey (n) : Cuéc kh¶o s¸t trªn kh«ng

4 Royal Geographical Society of Australia: _Hội địa lí Hoàng gia Ôxtrâylia

5 Australian Aborigine: _

thæ d©n ¤xtr©ylia

6 dune (n): _đụn cát, đồi cát

7 sloping/slope (n): dèc thoai tho¶i

8 steep (n): _dốc đứng, dốc thẳng

9 hummock (n): _gò, đống

10 crest (n): đỉnh (gò, đống)

11 spinifex (n): cá l¸ nhän

*/ Task 1: Give the Vietnamese equivalents to the following

thæ d©n ¤xtr©ylia

gò, đống

đỉnh (gò, đống)

cỏ lá nhọn sống ở vùng sa mạc Ôxtrâylia

*/ Task 2: Decide whether the statements are true (T) or

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)

1 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)

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

(n) /'dez t/: ǝ sa m¹c

Instead of saying: “What would you like for your dessert?”

/dI'zз:t/ :

desert?”

/'dez t/ǝ

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!

an R ive r

Dia ma ntin a R

iver

Fi nk

e R

iv er

6 spinifex

- to circle (ed): bao quanh, v©y quanh

- to comprise (ed) (=to consist of): bao gåm