The life in The Desert (Reading)

Welcome to our lesson today Created by Nguyen Minh Duc, Nam Sach High School No2 Mobile: 098.8503072 Home Phone: 0320.3539210 Email: minhducpg@yahoo.com.vn What is the film about? Unit 9: Deserts Part A: Reading Before you read */ Study the following pictures camel Picture cactus dune Picture scorpion */ Ask and answer the following questions What you know about deserts? What kinds of plants and animals live in a desert? Name some of the countries which have deserts Picture Picture 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: */ Activity 2: Doing the tasks on page 98: Nullabor Macdonnel Plain Ranges Great Mulligan Victoria Gibbon Diamantina Tanami Macumba Lake FinkeEyre - Simpson Desert */ Task 1: Give the Vietnamese equivalents to the following words or phrases stretch: _ sandy: _ aerial survey: _ Royal Geographical Society of Australia: Australian Aborigine: _ dune: sloping/slope: _ steep: _ hummock: 10 crest: 11 spinifex: */ Task 1: Give the Vietnamese equivalents to the following words or phrases (n): dải (đất ) stretch: (v): kéo dài, trải dài */ Task 1: Give the Vietnamese equivalents to the following words or phrases stretch: _ sandy: _ aerial survey: _ Royal Geographical Society of Australia: Australian Aborigine: _ dune: sloping/slope: _ steep: _ hummock: 10 crest: 11 spinifex: Có cát sandy (adj): _ */ Task 2: Decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F) According to the passage, there are three (line 1, 2, paragraph 1) great deserts in Australia F _ The first European entered the Simpson Desert in 1945 _ F (line 4, paragraph 2) The desert was named after Simpson in 1929 T (line 6, 7, paragraph 2) _ Colson and Madigan travelled across the Simpson Desert in 1936 F (line 1, 2, paragraph 3) Dry salt lakes are in the northern part of T (line 1, 5,6, paragraph 5) the desert _ */ 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 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 When did the first European enter the desert? (He entered the Simpson Desert) in 1845 Who was Simpson? (He was) the President of the South Australian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia How did E.A Colson and an Australian Aborigine travel across the desert? They took camels across the desert 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 How many kinds of grass grow in the Simpson Desert? What are they? Two (They are) hummock grasses and spinifex After you read (n) /'dezt/: sa mạc - desert (v) /dI'z:t/ : to abandon sb(từ bỏ) - dessert (n) /dI'z:t/ : any sweet food eaten at the end of a meal (món tráng miệng) - interpreter (n): ngời phiên dịch - businessman (n): thơng gia Instead of saying: What would you like for your dessert? /dI'z:t/ : He said: What would you like for your desert? /'dezt/ 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 M Lake Eyre Nullabor Plain ga n Ri ve r Simpson Desert Fi nk e Ri ve r Macdonnel Ranges ul li in a ant m Dia er R iv spinifex */ Activity 2: Vocabulary - to circle (ed): bao quanh, vây quanh - to comprise (ed) (=to consist of): bao gồm E.g This dictionary comprises about 65,000 - words corridor (n): hành lang [...]... 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... 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) 1 According to the passage, there are three (line 1, 2, paragraph 1) great deserts in Australia... 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... Australia F _ 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 T (line 1, 5,6, paragraph 5) the desert _ */ Task 3: Answer the questions on p 98 (in Textbook)... 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 (n) /'dezt/: sa mạc - desert (v) /dI'z:t/ : to abandon sb(từ bỏ) - dessert (n) /dI'z:t/ : any sweet food eaten at the end of a meal... Aborigine: 6 dune (n): đụn cát, đồi cát thoai thoải 7 sloping/slope (n): dốc đứng, dốc thẳng 8 steep (n): dốc gò, đống 9 hummock (n): 10 crest (n): đỉnh (gò, đống) _ cỏ lá nhọn sống ở vùng sa mạc Ôxtrâylia 11 spinifex (n): */ Task 2: Decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F) 1 According to the passage, there are three great deserts in Australia... miệng) - interpreter (n): ngời phiên dịch - businessman (n): thơng gia Instead of saying: What would you like for your dessert? /dI'z:t/ : He said: What would you like for your desert? /'dezt/ 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 M Lake Eyre Nullabor Plain ga n Ri ve r Simpson Desert Fi... _ dân Ôxtrâylia 5 Australian Aborigine: thổ _ đụn cát, đồi cát 6 dune (n): _ thoai thoải 7 sloping/slope (n): dốc dốc đứng, dốc thẳng 8 steep (n): _ gò, đống 9 hummock (n): _ đỉnh (gò, đống) 10 crest (n): cỏ lá nhọn 11 spinifex (n): */ Task 1: Give the Vietnamese equivalents to the following words or phrases trải dài, kéo dài; (n)... and goodbye! This is the end of our lesson today Thank you very much and goodbye! Tanami Desert M Lake Eyre Nullabor Plain ga n Ri ve r Simpson Desert Fi nk e Ri ve r Macdonnel Ranges ul li in a ant m Dia er R iv 6 spinifex ... the Macdonel Ranges in the north, the Mulligan and the diamantina Rivers in the east, and the Macumba and Finke Rivers in the west When did the first European enter the desert? (He entered the. .. entered the Simpson Desert in 1945 _ The desert was named after Simpson in 1929 Colson and Madigan travelled across the Simpson Desert in 1936 _ Dry salt lakes are in the northern part of the desert. .. 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