Unit 9
Undersea world
A. Reading.
• Before you read:
Work with a partner. Look at the map and give the
Vietnamese names for the oceans on the map.
Bắc Băng Dương
Đại Tây Dương
Thái Bình Dương
Ấn Độ Dương
Nam Băng Dương
• Work with a partner:
Look at the picture below. Can you name the sea animal
in each picture? The first letter of the word has been
given to help you.
Seal
Dolphin
Shark
Jellyfish
Turtle
Starfish
Seahorse
New words of the reading text
1. Bay (n) vịnh
2. Mystery (n) điều huyền bí
Mysterious (a)
Mysteriously (adv)
3. Beneath (prep): dưới
Ex: The boat sank beneath the waves
4. Submarine (n) tàu ngầm
5. Marine life (n) cuộc sống dưới biển
6. Fall into (v)= to be able to be divided
into sth được chia thành
7. water current (n) dòng nước
New words of the reading text
8. Organism (n) a living being sinh vật
9. At stake = At risk
Ex: Our environment is at stake so we have to join
together to save it.
10. Contribute (v) to sth
Ex: How many events contributed to the liberation
of women?
Contribution (n)
Ex: We admire his great contribution to Vietnam
education system.
While you read :
Task 1 : The words in the box all appear in the
passage . Fill each blank with one of them .There are
more words than needed
Task 1:
filling in the blank with one of the
words in the box
1. Gulf: vịnh
2. Investigate: điều tra
3. Oversized : quá khổ
4. Tiny : rất nhỏ
5. Biodiversity: đa dạng sinh thái
6. samples: mẫu
7.Challenges: thử thách
8. Provide: cung cấp
tiny
1. Some plants and animal are referred to as ________
organisms because they are extremely small .
2. Thanks to modern technology , scientists have been
investigate
able to _____________ the life of plants and animal that
live under the sea .
3.
4.
gulf
A _______ is a large area of sea that is partly
surrounded by land .
Biodiversity
____________ is a term that refers to the existence of
different kinds of animals and plants which make a
balanced environment .
samples
5. These scientists have collected different __________
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1. It is one of Vietnam's most popular tourist destinations and was world
heritage listed by UNESCO in 1994
heritage listed by UNESCO in 1994
2. It is have five pairs of legs, the first of which is modified into a pair of
claws
3. What percentage of the earth’s surface is covered by seas and oceans ?
4. Look at the picture
Task 2
Read the passage again and then answer the following
questions
1. What percentage of the Earth’s surface is covered by
seas and oceans?
75 % of the earth’s surface
2. How do scientists now overcome the challenges of the
depth?
By using modern services
3. What can submarines do to help scientists know about
the undersea world?
They investigate the seabed and bring samples of the
marine life back to the surface for further study
Task 2
4. What can we learn from the satellite photos?
We can know a wide range of information, including
water temperature, depth and the undersea populations
5. What are the three groups of marine plants and
animals?
They are those that live on or depend on the bottom
like the starfish, those that move independently of water
currents and those that are carried along by the currents
6. What would happen if the sea biodiversity were not
maintained?
The marine life would be at stake if the sea biodiversity
was not maintained
After you read :
• Work with a partner:
Complete the summary of the reading passage by
filling each blank with a word or phrase given in the
box below .
Though covering ______________of the earth’s surface ,
three quarters
three quarters
mysterious
mysterious
the ocean has remained __________ to us until recently.
modern
With _______ technology we have now made important
__________ about the __________ of marine life . We
discoveries
biodiversity
huge
have learnt that whether tiny or ______ , all the
closely connected
_______________ of the sea are _______________
plants and animals