Unit 9. Deserts

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Unit 9: DESERTS

READING

* Work in pairs Ask and answer the following questions.

1 What do you know about deserts?

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

They are the large area of sand without tree and water,

but with severe climates, very hot during the day and

very cold at night There is very little rainfall there; very

few people and animals except for in oases.

Plants: cacti, date palm, grass, etc.

Before you read

New words and phrases

1 Aerial survey ( n) ['eəriəl

2 Héi §Þa lý Hoµng gia óc

3 Thæ d©n óc

4 Cån c¸t

5 Cá l¸ nhän

TASK 1

Match the words in A with their Vietnamese equivalents in B.

1 Stretch (n/ v) [stret∫] a Dốc thoai thoải

2 Sandy ( adj) ['sổndi] b Dốc đứng

3 Sloping ( adj) ['sloupiη] c Có cát

5 Hummock ( n) ['hʌmək] e Đỉnh ( gò, đống)

Aerial survey

Australian aborigines

dunes

Spinifex

TASK 2 Decide whether the statements are True ( T), False ( F) or No

Information ( N.I)

1 According to the passage, there are three

great deserts in Australia.

2 The Simpson Desert is the largest one in

Paragraph 1

Three great stretches of sandy desert almost circle the centre of Australia To the north of Nullabor Plain stretches the Great Victoria Desert In the west, the Gibbon, Great Sandy, and Tanami Deserts comprise

an enormous sandy area North of Lake Eyre lies the Simpson Desert, the last part of Australia to be explored

Paragraph 2

The Simpson desert lies between Lake Eyre in the south, the Macdonnel Ranges in the north, the Mulligan and the Diamantina Rivers in the east, and the Macumba and Finke Rivers in the west The first European entered the Simpson Desert in 1845 But the desert remained a mystery until Madigan made an aerial survey

in 1929 He named the desert after Simpson, President of the South Australian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia

Paragraph 3

In 1936, Colson and an Australian Aborigine took camels across the desert They travelled along the border of South Australia and the Northern Territory Three years later Madigan led a scientific expedition across the sand dunes on a mote northerly route Colson and Madigan both travelled eastward across the Simpson

Paragraph 4

In the Simpson Desert there are different types of dunes In the western part of the desert, there is a network of short dunes, mostly less than 10 metres high Hummock grasses grow in loose sand on the crest and spinifex grows in the corridors between dunes and on the more stable slopes.

TASK 3

Answer the following questions

1 What are the names of the three great stretches of sandy deserts which circle the centre of Australia?

2 Where is the Simpson Desert?

3 When did the first European enter the desert?

4 Who was Simpson?

5 How did E.A Colson and an Australian aborigine

travel across the desert?

6 What are the dunes like in the western and northern parts of the desert?

7 How many kinds of grass grow in the Simpson

Desert? What are they?

Each group takes turns to choose a question

For each question you will have three

choices A, B or C for the answer

Whistle to have the right to answer in 12

seconds

Raise the card to get the 2 points.

The turn is passed to the other group if the

A The Great Victoria Desert, Tanami

Deserts and the Simpson Desert.

B the Simpson Desert,The Great

Victoria Desert, the Gibbon, Great

Sandy and Tanami Deserts

C The Great Victoria Desert, the

Gibbon, and Tanami Deserts and

the Simpson Desert.

1 What are the names of the three great stretches of sandy deserts which circle the centre of Australia?

A In the north of Lake Eyre

B In the west of the centre

C To the north of Nullabor

Plain

2 Where is the Simpson Desert?

3 When did the first European

enter the desert?

A In 1945

B In 1854

C In 1845

A He was the president of the Royal

Geographical Society of Australia.

B He was the president of the South

Australia Branch of the Royal

Geographical Society of Australia.

C He was the president of the North

4 Who was Simpson?

How did E.A Colson and an Australian

aborigine travel across the desert?

A.They traveled across the desert by camels B.They drove across the desert.

C They flown across the desert.

In the western part, they are - , mostly less than 10 metres high,

and in the northern part, they are

- and are up to 20 metres

high.

A parallel/ short

B short/ parallel

6 What are the dunes like in the western

and northern parts of the desert?

7 How many kinds of grass grow in the

Simpson Desert? What are they?

Two kinds of grass grow in the

Simpson Desert They are

.

A.hummock grass and spinifex

B.hummock grass and cacti

C.cacti and spinifex

• Learn the new words and phrase

• Read the funny story in textbook page 99

• Prepare for the next lesson : Unit 9

Deserts - Speaking

Thank you