Unit 9-Listening12Cb

Fill in each blank with one suitable word from the box. 1. The desert was named …………… a famous writer. 2. A ……… is a low hill of sand formed by a wind in a desert. 3. you can see hummock grasses on the ……… of dunes in the Simpson Desert. 4. Spenifex grows in the ……………… between dunes and on the more stable slopes. 5. The great Victoria Desert ………… to the North of Nullabor. crest dune desert stretches after corridors Lesson 2: Listening Listening Work in pairs. Ask and answer the following questions. 1. What is a desert? 2. How is a desert formed? 3. Can human beings make a desert? Why/ Why not? * Vocabulary: 1. cool (a)  cool (r) 2. canal (n) [kə'næl] kênh, sông đào 3. needle (n) ['ni:dl] kim,l¸ kim 4. colony (n) ['k ləni]ɔ thuéc ®Þa 5. firewood (n) ['faiəwud] cñi 6. edge (n) [ed ]ʒ riµ, c¹nh 7. petroleum (n) [pə'trouliəm] Iraq is very rich in petroleum. lµm cho m¸t, nguéi dÇu canal needle colony firewood edge kênh, sông đào kim,l¸ kim thuéc ®Þa cñi riµ, c¹nh dÇupetroleum frightening speed Australia Sahara firewood petroleum Mauritania Task1. Are the following statements true (T) or false (F)? T F     1. In a desert, everything is hard. 2. Only trees with hard needles can grow in desert. 3. Space seems to have no limit in the desert. 4.Nature causes the change in the size and location of the world’s desert. 5.Rabbits are one of the agents that help make deserts in Australia.  Task 2. Answer the following questions C EB D A Task2. 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? It examines deserts, what they are and how they are formed. It examines deserts, what they are and how they are formed. It is It is a hot, dry, sandy place. It is also a beautiful land of a hot, dry, sandy place. It is also a beautiful land of silence and space. The sun shines, the wind blows, and silence and space. The sun shines, the wind blows, and time and space seem endless. time and space seem endless. Nature and humans. Nature and humans. They contribute by eating every plant they can find. They contribute by eating every plant they can find. This makes the land become desert. This makes the land become desert.