The life in The Desert (Reading)

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Unit 9: Deserts
Part A: Reading

Before you read


*/ Study the following pictures

camel

Picture 1

cactus

dune

Picture 2

scorpion

*/ Ask and answer the following 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.

Picture 3

Picture 4


Unit 9: Deserts
Part A: Reading

Before you read
While you read

*/ Activity 1: Read the passage quickly and then answer
the following questions:
1/ What is the passage about?
2/ How many paragraphs are there in the passage?


*/ Geographical names:
*/ Activity
-- 2: Doing the tasks on page 98:

Nullabor

Macdonnel
Plain
Ranges
-- Great
Mulligan
Victoria
-- Gibbon
Diamantina
-- Tanami
Macumba
-- Lake
FinkeEyre
- Simpson Desert


*/ Task 1: Give the Vietnamese equivalents to the following
words or phrases
1. stretch: _____
2. sandy: _____
3. aerial survey: _____
4. Royal Geographical
Society of Australia: __
5. Australian Aborigine: _

6. dune: ________
7. sloping/slope: _______
8. steep: _____
9. hummock: ______
10. crest: ____
11. spinifex: ____

*/ Task 1: Give the Vietnamese equivalents to the following
words or phrases

(n): d¶i (®Êt )
1. stretch:

(v): kÐo dµi, tr¶i dµi


*/ Task 1: Give the Vietnamese equivalents to the following
words or phrases
1. stretch: _____
2. sandy: _____
3. aerial survey: _____
4. Royal Geographical
Society of Australia: __
5. Australian Aborigine: _

6. dune: ________
7. sloping/slope: _______
8. steep: _____
9. hummock: ______
10. crest: ____
11. spinifex: ____


Cã c¸t
2. sandy (adj): ___________

kh¶o s¸t trªn kh«ng
3. Aerial survey (n) : Cuéc
______________


4. Royal Geographical Society of Australia:
Héi ®Þa lÝ Hoµng gia ¤xtr©ylia
___________________________________


d©n ¤xtr©ylia
5. Australian Aborigine: thæ
_________________


®ôn c¸t, ®åi c¸t
6. dune (n): _______________________


thoai tho¶i
7. sloping/slope (n): dèc
__________________


dèc ®øng, dèc th¼ng
8. steep (n): _______________________

gß, ®èng
9. hummock (n): _______________


®Ønh (gß, ®èng)
10. crest (n): ____________


cá l¸ nhän
11. spinifex (n): ________________


*/ Task 1: Give the Vietnamese equivalents to the following
words or phrases
trải dài, kéo dài; (n) dải (đất)
1.stretch: (v)
___________
có cát
2. sandy (adj): ___________
trắc lợng trên không
3. aerial survey: ______________
4. Royal Geographical Society of Australia:
Hội địa lí Hoàng gia Ôxtrâylia
__________________
thổ dân Ôxtrâylia
5. Australian Aborigine: ____________


6. dune (n):

đụn cát, đồi cát
________

thoai thoải
7. sloping/slope (n): dốc
__________
đứng, dốc thẳng
8. steep (n): dốc
______________
gò, đống
9. hummock (n): ______
10. crest (n):

đỉnh
(gò, đống)
___________

cỏ lá nhọn sống ở vùng sa mạc Ôxtrâylia
11. spinifex (n): ____________________________


*/ Task 2: Decide whether the statements are true (T) or
false (F)
1. According to the passage, there are three great
deserts in Australia

_____

2. The first European entered the Simpson Desert in
1945 _____

3. The desert was named after Simpson in 1929.
4. Colson and Madigan travelled across the Simpson
Desert in 1936 _____
6. Dry salt lakes are in the northern part of the desert
_____


*/ Task 2: Decide whether the statements are true (T) or
false (F)

1. According to the passage, there are three
(line 1, 2, paragraph 1)
great deserts in Australia F_____


2. The first European entered the Simpson Desert
in 1945 _____
F (line 4, paragraph 2)


3. The desert was named after Simpson in 1929
T (line 6, 7, paragraph 2)
_________