Tan Lam Upper Secondary School English 12 Date of preparation: Teaching date: Class : 12b 2 , 12b 3 UNIT 9: DESERTS Period: 54 Reading I. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to: Guess the meaning of words/ phrases in contexts and pictures. Scan for specific information about Simpson Desert. summarize the text 1. Educational aim: To help students to read and guess the meaning of words/ phrases in contexts and pictures. To help them scan and find information about Simpson Desert in Australia. 2. Knowledge: Nouns : sand dunes, slope, steep, hummock grasses, crest, spinifex 3. Skill: Reading II. Teaching aids: textbook, computer, multi-projector III. Procedure: Teacher’s activities Students’ activities WARM-UP: (06 minutes) Guessing: What is this? - It is a very large place. - It is very hot and dry. - There is a lot of sand there. PRE – READ: (14 minutes) * Activity 1:ask and answer the 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? * Activity 2: presenting vocabulary sand dunes (n) = mound of loose sand formed by wind slope /sloup/ (n) - Students listen to the teacher’s guiding and guess what it is: Answer key: DESERTS - Read the questions and thinks about the topic. 1. dry, few trees, little or no water, little rainfall, few people and animals live in a desert… 2. cactus /’kkts/: cây xương rồng, camel /’kml/: con lạc đà, pasture /’ps/: cỏ, date palm: cây chà là … 3. Sahara in the north of Africa (about 9.000.000 km 2 , Simson in Australia … cồn cát, đụn cát dốc Teacher: Nguyen Quang Hai Tan Lam Upper Secondary School English 12 Steep /st p/ (n) = sloping sharply hummock grasses /’h m k/ (n) crest (n) = top (of mountain) spinifex /’sp n feks/ (n) = a kind of grass * Activity 3: True/ False guessing TRUE / FALSE STATEMENTS T / F 1. There are three great deserts in Australia. 2. In 1929, the desert was named after Simpson. 3. The dunes are same all over the desert. 4. There are more dunes in the Western part of the desert. 5. Dry salt lakes are in the northern part of the desert. WHILE - READ: (17 minutes) * Task 2: True/ False statements - Ask students to read the passage and do the true/ false statements - Give feedback * Task 3: (group work) asking and answering the questions - Asks students to work in groups and read the passage again to answer the questions. 1. What are the names of the three great stretches of sandy desert, which circle the centre of Australia? 2. Where is the Simpson Desert? 3. When did the 1st European enter the desert? 4. Who was Simpson? 5. How did Colson and an Australia Aborigine travel across the desert? 6. What are the dunes like in the western and the northern parts of the desert? 7. How may kinds of grass grow in the Simpson Desert? What are they? dốc đứng cỏ gò đỉnh, ngọn cỏ lá nhọn - Students use their knowledge to guess and decide which sentence is correct. - Students read the passage and correct their prediction. TRUE/ FALSE STATEMENTS T / F 1. There are three great deserts in Australia. F 2. In 1929, the desert was named after Simpson. T 3. The dunes are same all over the desert. F 4. There are more dunes in the Western part of the desert. F 5. Dry salt lakes are in the northern part of the desert. T - Students work in groups of 4, read and answer the questions. 1. They are Great Victoria Desert, Gibbon, Great Sandy and Tanami Desert, and Great Simpson Desert 2. It 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. 3. In 1845 4. He was the President of the South Australian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia. Teacher: Nguyen Quang Hai Tan Lam Upper Secondary School English 12 POST – READ: (7 minutes) * Finding the location - Ask students to remind and write down the location of the Simpson Desert. HOMEWORK: (3 minutes) Read the story and answer the questions in the After you read (page 99) and do task 1 (page 98) 5. They took camels across the desert. 6. In the western part, they are short, mostly less than 10 meters high, and in the northern part, they are parallel and are up to 20 meters high. 7. Two. They are hummock grasses and spinifex. - Students work individually and then compare with the others. Teacher: Nguyen Quang Hai . work in groups of 4, read and answer the questions. 1. They are Great Victoria Desert, Gibbon, Great Sandy and Tanami Desert, and Great Simpson Desert 2 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. 3.