Unit 9: Deserts-Listening (chuẩn) - E12

Fill in each blank with one suitable word from the box.
1. The desert was named …………….. a famous writer.
2. A ……….. is a low hill of sand formed by a wind in a desert.
3. you can see hummock grasses on the ……… of dunes
in the Simpson Desert.
4. Spenifex grows in the ……………… between dunes and on
the more stable slopes.
5. The great Victoria Desert ………….. to the North of Nullabor.
crest dune desert stretches
after corridors

Lesson 2:
Listening
Listening

Work in pairs. Ask and answer the following questions.
1. What is a desert?
2. How is a desert formed?
3. Can human beings make a desert? Why/ Why not?

* Vocabulary:
1. cool (a)  cool (v)
2. canal (n)
[kə'næl]
kênh, sông đào
3. needle (n)
['ni:dl]
kim,l¸ kim

4. colony (n)
['k ləni]ɔ
thuéc ®Þa
5. firewood (n)
['faiəwud]
cñi
6. edge (n)
[ed ]ʒ
riµ, c¹nh
7. petroleum (n)
[pə'trouliəm]

Iraq is very rich in petroleum.
lµm cho m¸t, nguéi
dÇu




canal
needle
colony
firewood
edge
kênh, sông đào
kim, l¸ kim
thuéc ®Þa
cñi
riµ, c¹nh
dÇu

petroleum

frightening speed
Australia
Sahara
firewood
petroleum
Mauritania