What you want to be in the future? Teacher : Phan Thị Thạch Unit 9: Deserts – Listening – Before listening Pair-work: Discuss the following questions What is a desert? How is a desert formed? Can human beings make a desert? Why/ why not? Unit 9: Deserts – Listening – Vocabulary Listen and repeat: - Frightening speed Australia Sahara Firewood Petroleum Mauritania Unit 9: Deserts – Listening – Task 1: True or False n True or False statement Answer Explanation T In Nothing a desert, is soft everything is hard F Only needles Manytrees of the with plants,hard such as the cactus, can grow in deserts have hard needles instead of leaves T Space have no limit in the desert Spaceseems seemtoendless F Nature causes the change in changes, the size This is partly because of natural andthe location the world deserts But greatestofdesert makers are humans There Rabbits a millions are one of rabbit the agents in Aus, that and T they help eatevery make deserts plantin they Australia can find… Unit 9: Deserts – Listening – Task Listen and answer the questions: examines deserts, are 1.ItWhat central theme what does they the talk and how they are formed examine? is a hot, sandy place It is also a 2.ItWhat is adry, desert? beautiful land of silence and space What causes the growing of the Nature and humans world’s deserts? They contribute by eating every In what way rabbits contribute to plant they can find This makes the growing of deserts in Australia the land become deserts Unit 9: Deserts – Listening – Task 3: Gap filling 90 percent In developing countries,(1)…………… of the people use wood for cooking and heat They cut down trees for firewood But trees are important They cool the land under them and keep the sun off (2) smaller plants When leaves fall from a tree, they ……………………… make the land richer When the trees gone, the smaller plants die, and the land becomes desert Humans can make deserts, but humans can also (3) ………… prevent their growth Algeria planted a green wall of trees across the edge of the Sahara to stop the desert spreading sand from (4)……………… Mauritania planted a capital similar wall around its (5)………… Iran puts a thin covering of petroleum on sandy areas and plant trees Other countries build long (6)… ……… tocanals bring water to the desert areas Unit 9: Deserts – Listening – After Listening The talk examines… what they are and how they are formed a deserts b animals c sand Desert is a hot, dry and … place a peaceful b endless c sandy Desert is also a beautiful land of …… and space a nature b silence c mountains …and ….cause the growing of the world`s deserts a Nature and animals b Animals and humans c Nature and humans Rabbits contribute to the growing of deserts in Australia They…… every plant they can find a destroy b eat c keep DESERTS …(1) OF THE GROWTH OF DESERT (3) (4) MEASURES TO.(2)…THE GROWTH OF DESERT (5) (6) ... Unit 9: Deserts – Listening – Before listening Pair-work: Discuss the following questions What is a desert? How is a desert formed? Can human beings make a desert? Why/ why not? Unit 9: Deserts. .. world’s deserts? They contribute by eating every In what way rabbits contribute to plant they can find This makes the growing of deserts in Australia the land become deserts Unit 9: Deserts – Listening. .. ……… tocanals bring water to the desert areas Unit 9: Deserts – Listening – After Listening The talk examines… what they are and how they are formed a deserts b animals c sand Desert is a hot, dry