Unit 09 deserts listening
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Teacher : Phan Thị Thạch
Unit 9: Deserts – Listening – Before listening
Pair-work: Discuss the following
questions
1. What is a desert?
2. How is a desert formed?
3. Can human beings make a desert?
Why/ why not?
Unit 9: Deserts – Listening – Vocabulary
Listen and repeat:
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Frightening speed
Australia
Sahara
Firewood
Petroleum
Mauritania
Unit 9: Deserts – Listening – Task 1: True or False
n
True or False statement
Answer
Explanation
1. T
In
Nothing
a desert,
is soft
everything is hard.
2. F
Only
needles
Manytrees
of the with
plants,hard
such as
the cactus,
can
grow
in deserts
have
hard needles
instead of leaves.
3. T
Space
have no limit in the desert.
Spaceseems
seemtoendless.
4. F
Nature
causes
the change
in changes,
the size
This is partly
because
of natural
andthe
location
the world
deserts.
But
greatestofdesert
makers
are humans.
There
Rabbits
a millions
are one of rabbit
the agents
in Aus,
that
and
5. T
they
help eatevery
make deserts
plantin
they
Australia.
can find….
Unit 9: Deserts – Listening – Task 2
Listen and answer the questions:
1.
examines
deserts,
are
1.ItWhat
central
theme what
does they
the talk
and
how they are formed.
examine?
2.
is a hot,
sandy place. It is also a
2.ItWhat
is adry,
desert?
beautiful land of silence and space.
3.
What
causes
the
growing
of
the
3. Nature and humans
world’s deserts?
4. They contribute by eating every
4.
In
what
way
do
rabbits
contribute
to
plant they can find. This makes
the
growing
of
deserts
in
Australia
the land become deserts
Unit 9: Deserts – Listening – Task 3: Gap filling
90 percent
In developing countries,(1)…………….
of the people
use wood for cooking and heat. They cut down trees
for firewood. But trees are important. They cool the
land under them and keep the sun off (2)
smaller plants . When leaves fall from a tree, they
………………………
make the land richer. When the trees gone, the smaller
plants die, and the land becomes desert.
Humans can make deserts, but humans can also (3)
………….
prevent
their growth. Algeria planted a green wall of
trees across the edge of the Sahara to stop the desert
spreading
sand from (4)………………
. Mauritania planted a
capital
similar wall around its (5)…………..
. Iran puts a thin
covering of petroleum on sandy areas and plant trees.
Other countries build long (6)…..………. tocanals
bring water
to the desert areas.
Unit 9: Deserts – Listening – After
Listening
1. The talk examines…. what they are and how they are formed.
a. deserts
b. animals
c. sand
2. Desert is a hot, dry and …. place.
a. peaceful b. endless
c. sandy
3. Desert is also a beautiful land of ……. and space.
a. nature
b. silence
c. mountains
4 …and ….cause the growing of the world`s deserts.
a. Nature and animals b. Animals and humans c. Nature and
humans
5. Rabbits contribute to the growing of deserts in Australia.
They……...every plant they can find.
a. destroy
b. eat
c. keep
DESERTS
…(1).. OF THE
GROWTH OF DESERT
(3)
(4)
MEASURES TO.(2)…THE
GROWTH OF DESERT
(5)
(6)
