Bài giảng Tiếng Anh 12 unit 9: Deserts

Where is she standing? She is standing on the desert What you know about deserts? Lesson 1: Reading What you know about deserts? -large areas of sand -very hot during the day -very cold during the night -very little rainfall -very few people and animals live there Can you name some of the countries which have a desert? AMERICA ,CHINA and AUSTRALIA *Vocabulary Stretch(n):dải Sandy(adj):có cát Aerial survey(n) /'e∂ri∂l/ trắc lượng không Royal Geographical Society of Australia: hội địa lý hoàng gia Uc Australia Aborigine (n): thổ dân Uc dân Uc Dune/dju:n/ :đụn cát,cồn cát Sloping(adj):dốc thoai thoải Steep(adj): dốc đứng Hummock(n):gò,đống Crest(n):đỉnh(gò,đống) Spinifex(n): cỏ nhọn 1.stretch (n): 2.sandy (adj): 3.aerial survey (n): 4.Royal Geographical Society of Australia (n): 5.Australian Aborigine(n): 6.dune (n): 7.sloping (adj): 8.steep (adj): 9.hummock (n): 10.Crest (n): 11.Spinifex (n): dải (sa mạc,cát…) có cát trắc lượng khơng Hội địa lý hồng gia Úc thổ dân óc đụn cát dốc thoai thoải dốc đứng gò,đống đỉnh(gò,đống) cỏ nhọn Task: Decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F) T F According to the passage, there are three great deserts in Australia circle the centre of Australia(p1,L1)  2.The Simpson Desert is the largest one in Australia one of the largest ones (p1,L1& the news)  The desert was named after Simpson in 1929 (p2,L5,6,7)  4.Colson and Madigan travelled across the Simpson Desert in 1936 in 1939(three years later-P3,L1-3-4-5)  5.There are more dunes in the western part of the desert there is a network of short dunes(P4,L2)  6.Dry salt lakes are in the northern part of the desert (p 5,L1&5-6)  1.What are the names of the three great stretches of sandy desert which circle the centre of Australia? Where is the Simpson Desert? When did the first European enter the desert? Who was Simpson? How did E A Colson and an Australian Aborigine travel across the desert? How many kinds of grass grow in the Simpson Desert? What are they? ANSWERS 1.They’re Great Victoria Deserts,Gibbon,Great Sandy P.1 and Tanami Deserts and Simpson Desert 2.It lies between Lake Eyre in the south,the MacDonald Ranges in the north,the Mulligan and the Diamanita Rivers in the east, and the Macuba P.2,L 1,2,3 and Finke Rivers in the west 3.In 1845 P2,L4 4.He was the President of the South Australia Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia P2,L6,7 5.They took camels across the desert P3,L1 6.Two They are hummock grasses and spinifex P4,L3-4 1 Learn vocabulary by heart Do exercises in the workbook Prepare the next lesson : B Speaking