Bài giảng Tiếng Anh 12 - Unit 9: Deserts - Period 1: A. Reading

Well come to our lessonNow let’s start our lessonFriday, December 26th 2008Unit 9: DESERTSPeriod 1: A. ReadingI. Before you readLook at the pictures and answer the following questions:1. Where are these pictures?2. What do people often see in the desert?3. How many main deserts are there in the world?4. Do you know one of them? - Have you ever heard Simpson Desert?* Where do you know?It is Australia where has Simpson Desert.* What do you know about it?Simpson DesertRead the passage and find out the new words if there haveII. While you read1. Task 1 Match the words and phrases in the first column with their Vietnamese equivalents in the second column.EnglishVietnamese1. stretch 2. sandy 3. aerial survey 4. Royal Geographical Society of Australia5. Australian Aborigine 6. dune7. sloping8. steep9. hummock10. crest11. spinifexa. Khảo sát trên khôngb. Dốc thoai thoảic. Kéo dài, căng rad. Hội Địa lí Hoàng gia Ôxtrayliae. gò, đốngf. Cỏ lá nhọn sống ở vùng sa mạc g. Cát, có cáth. Đụn cáti. Thổ dân Ôxtrayliaj. Dốc đứng, dốc ngượck. Đỉnh (gò/đống)cgadihbjekf2. Task 2 Read the passage again and decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F).TF1. According to the passage, there are three great deserts in Australia.2. The Simpson Desert is the largest one in Australia.3. The desert was named after Simpson in 1929....4. Colson and Madigan travelled across the Simpson Desert in 1936.TF5. There are more dunes in the western part of the desert.6. Dry salt lakes are in the northern part of the desert....3. Task 3 Choose the best answer A, B or C to complete the following sentences1.The names of three great stretches of sandy desert which circle the centre of Australia are.A. Great Victoria Deserts, Gibbon, Great Sandy and Tanami Deserts and Simpson Desert. B. Great Victoria Deserts, Lake Eyre, The Macdonnel Ranges and Simpson Deserts. C. Simpson Deserts, The Macumba and Finke Rivers and Great Victoria Deserts.A. Great Victoria Deserts, Gibbon, Great Sandy and Tanami Deserts and Simpson Desert. 2. The first European entered the Simpson Desert in .....A. 1929C. 1854B. 18453 was the President of the South Australian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia.C. SimpsonB. ColsonA. Madigan4. In 1936, Colson and an Australian Aborigine took..Across the desert.C. dogsB. horsesA. camelsB. 1845C. SimpsonA. camels5. In the western part of the desert, there is a network of short dunes, mostly less than .. metres high.A. 10B. 15C. 206. There are .. kinds of grasses grow in the Simpson Desert, they are hummock and spinifex.C. 3B. 2A. 1A. 10B. 2Scan the reading and write down the location of the Simpson Desert.Simpson DesertNSEW3. Lake Eyre2.The Mulligan riverThe Diamantina4.The Macumba riverThe Finke river1.The Macdonnel RangesGood bye, see you again.Thank you for your attention