Bài giảng Tiếng Anh 12 unit 9: Deserts

Where is she standing?

She is standing on the desert.
What do you know about deserts?


Lesson 1: Reading

What do you know about 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


Can you name some of the countries which have a
desert?
AMERICA ,CHINA and AUSTRALIA


*Vocabulary

Stretch(n):dải

Sandy(adj):có cát

Aerial survey(n) /'e∂ri∂l/

cuộc trắc lượng trên
không

Royal Geographical Society
of Australia: hội địa lý hoàng
gia Uc


Australia Aborigine
(n): thổ dân Uc

dân Uc

Dune/dju:n/ :đụn
cát,cồn cát
Sloping(adj):dốc
thoai thoải

Steep(adj):
dốc đứng


Hummock(n):gò,đống

Crest(n):đỉnh(gò,đống)

Spinifex(n): cỏ lá nhọn


1.stretch (n):

2.sandy (adj):
3.aerial survey (n):
4.Royal Geographical
Society of Australia (n):
5.Australian Aborigine(n):
6.dune (n):
7.sloping (adj):
8.steep (adj):
9.hummock (n):
10.Crest (n):
11.Spinifex (n):

dải (sa mạc,cát…)
có cát
cuộc trắc lượng trên không
Hội địa lý hoàng
gia Úc
thổ dân óc
đụn cát
dốc thoai thoải
dốc đứng
gò,đống
đỉnh(gò,đống)
cỏ lá nhọn


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

F

1. According to the passage, there are three great deserts in Australia
circle the centre of Australia(p1,L1)

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2.The Simpson Desert is the largest one in Australia.
one of the largest ones (p1,L1& the news)

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3. The desert was named after Simpson in 1929.
(p2,L5,6,7)

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4.Colson and Madigan travelled across the Simpson Desert in 1936.
in 1939(three years later-P3,L1-3-4-5)

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5.There are more dunes in the western part of the desert.
there is a network of short dunes(P4,L2)

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6.Dry salt lakes are in the northern part of the desert.

(p 5,L1&5-6)

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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 first European enter the desert?

4. Who was Simpson?
5. How did E. A. Colson and an Australian Aborigine travel
across the desert?

6. How many kinds of grass grow in the Simpson Desert?
What are they?


ANSWERS
1.They’re Great Victoria Deserts,Gibbon,Great Sandy
P.1
and Tanami Deserts and Simpson Desert.
2.It lies between Lake Eyre in the south,the
MacDonald Ranges in the north,the Mulligan and
the Diamanita Rivers in the east, and the Macuba
P.2,L 1,2,3.
and Finke Rivers in the west.
3.In 1845. P2,L4.

4.He was the President of the South Australia Branch
of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia. P2,L6,7.
5.They took camels across the desert. P3,L1
6.Two. They are hummock grasses and spinifex.
P4,L3-4.


1. Learn vocabulary by heart.
2. Do exercises in the workbook.
3. Prepare the next lesson : B.
Speaking