Bài giảng Tiếng Anh Lớp 12 - Tiết 54, Unit 9: Deserts (Reading) - Nguyễn Thị Thanh Bình

Prepared by Nguyen Thi Thanh Binh 
Period : 54 
Week: 20 
 Unit 9: 
deserts 
Reading 
WARM UP: Match the pictures with their names: 
Camel-elephant–antelope-monkey-jackal-sheep 
jackal 
antelope 
camel 
sheep 
monkey 
elephant 
Guessing: What is this? 
It is a desert 
Questions: 
1.What kind of these animals can live in desert? 
 Camel, jackal, antelope. 
2. Name some of countries which have deserts? 
 China, Egypt, Australia,...... 
PRE- READING 
Vocabulary 
1. Dune (n) : đụn cát 
2. Spinifex (n): 
Cỏ lá nhọn 
Vocabulary: 
1. Stretch (v) : 
 (n) : 
 - stretch of sandy desert (n) 
2. comprise (v) 
3. Aerial survey ( adj ) : 
 4. Dune (n) : 
 5. Aborigine (n) : 
6. Hummock (n) : 
7. Slope (n) : 
- A steep slope (n) : 
8. Crest (n) : 
9. Spinifex (n) : 
Trãi dài 
dãi 
: dãi sa mạc 
: bao gồm 
Khảo thí trên không 
Cồn cát , đụn cát 
Thổ dân 
Gò , đống 
Đèo . Dốc 
Dốc thẳng đứng 
Đỉnh 
Có lá nhọn 
 10. Royal Geographical Society of Australia: hiệp hội địa lý Hoàng Gia Úc 
WHILE - READING 
Activity 1 : True or False statements: 
According to the passage, Australia has only three great deserts 
 False 
2. The Simpson Desert is the largest one in Australia . 
 False 
3. The desert was named after Simpson in 1929. 
 True 
4. Colson and Madigan traveled across the Simpson Desert in 1936. 
 False 
5. There are more dunes in the western part of the Simpson desert. 
 False. 
6. Dry salt lakes are in the northern part of the desert . 
 True 
(It has more than three great deserts) 
(Colson and Australian Aborigine did) 
(not mentioned) 
(not mentioned) 
Activity 2: Answer the questions 
What are the three great stretches of sandy desert 
 which circle the centre of Australia? 
- They are Great Victoria Desert, Gibbon, Great Sandy 
 and Tanami Deserts and Simpson Desert 
2. Where is the Simpson Desert? 
- 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. When did the first European entered the desert? 
- In 1845 
4. Who was Simpson? 
- He was the President of the South Australian Branch of 
the Royal Geographical Society of Australia. 
5. How did E. A. Colson and an Australian Aborigine travel across the desert? 
- They took camels across the desert. 
6. What are the dunes like in the western and northern parts of the desert? 
- In the western part, they are short, mostly less than 10 metres high , and in the northern part, they are parallel and are up to 20 metres high. 
7. How many kinds of grass grow in the Simpson Desert? What are they? 
- Two. They are hummock grasses and spinifex . 
POST - READING 
Discussion 
Which method should people use to stop desert expansion? 
Suggested ideas: 
 Ban people from cutting trees for fuel and farmland because 
 when people cut down trees, the climate and soil are affected 
and forests are turned into deserts. 
 Plant a wall of trees across the edge of a desert to stop desert 
sand from the spreading. 
- Build long canals or pipelines to carry water to desert areas. 
Homework: 
Learn by heart the new words 
Do all the tasks in the exercise notebooks 
Prepare the lesson 2: Speaking 
Discussion 
The end