What are the dunes like in the western northern parts of the desert?. Colson and an Australian Aborigine travel across the desert5[r]
(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)What you know about
deserts?
What kinds of plants and animals live in
a desert?
Name some of the countries
which have 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
-only cacti and a kind of spinifex can grow
- no kind of animals can live there.
(15)Task:1 Give the Vietnamese equivalents to the following words or phrases.
1 Stretch : kÐo dµi
2 Sandy : cã c¸t
3 Aerial survey : trắc l ợng không
4 Royal Geographical Society of Australia : Hội địa lý Hoàng gia ụxtrõylia
5 Australian Aborigine : thổ dân ôxtrâylia
6 Dune : đụn cát
7 Sloping : dèc thoai tho¶i
8 Steep : dốc đứng, dốc ng ợc
9 Hummock : gò, đống
10.Crest : đỉnh (gò, đống)
(16)(17)* Vocabulary:
1 Comprise (v) : [kəm'praiz] 2 Enormous (adj) : [i'nɔ:məs] 3 Remain (v) : [i'nɔ:məs]
4 Camel (n) : ['kæməl] 5 Border (n) : ['bɔ:də]
6 Expedition (n) : [,ekspi'di∫n] 7 Northerly (adj) : ['nɔ:đəli] 8 Route (n) : [ru:t]
9 Eastward (n) : ['i:stwəd] 10.Corridor (n) : ['kɔridɔ:] 11.Stable (adj) : ['steibl] 12.Slope (n) : [sloup]
(18)Task: Decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F)
T F
1 According to the passage, there are three great deserts in Australia. 2 The Simpson Desert is the largest one in Australia.
3 The desert was named after Simpson in 1929.
4 Colson and Madigan travelled across the Simpson Desert in 1936. 5 There are more dunes in the western part of the desert.
6 Dry salt lakes are in the northern part of the desert.
(19)(20)Task 3: Answer the following questions:
7 How many kinds of grass grow in the Simpson Desert? What are they?
6 What are the dunes like in the western northern parts of the desert?
5 How did E A Colson and an Australian Aborigine travel across the desert?
4 Who was Simpson?
3 When did the first European enter the desert? 2 Where is the Simpson Desert?
1 What are the names of the three great stretches of sandy desert
(21)(22)Read the story,
please. Is the story
funny?
(23)1 Learn by heard the vocabulary.
1 Learn by heard the vocabulary.
2 Do exercises in the workbook.
2 Do exercises in the workbook.
3 Prepare the next lesson : B
3 Prepare the next lesson : B
Speaking
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