Unit 09 deserts reading
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Unit 9: DESERTS
READING
Before you read
Work in pairs.
Ask and answer
questions.
the
following
• What do you know about deserts?
• What kinds of plants and animals
live in a desert?
• Name some of the countries
which have deserts.
TASK 1
Give the Vietnamese equivalents to the following words or phrases
1. Stretch (n/ v) [stret∫]
2. Sandy ( adj) ['sændi]
3. Aerial survey ( n) ['eəriəl
'sə:vei]
4. Royal Geographical
Society of Australia ( n)
['rɔiəl dʒiə'græfikəl sə'saiəti əv
ɔs'treiljə]
5. Australian Aborigine ( n)
[ɔs'treiljən ,æbə'ridʒini:z]
6. Dune ( n) [dju:n]
7. Sloping ( adj) ['sloupiη]
8. Steep [sti:p]
9. Hummock ( n) ['hmk]
10.Crest ( n) [krest]
11.Spinifex ( n) ['spainfeks]
1.
2.
3.
4.
Dải đất/ kéo căng
Có cát
Trắc lợng trên không
Hội Địa lý Hoàng gia
úc
5. Thổ dân úc
6. Cồn cát
7. Dốc thoai thoải
8. Dốc đứng
9. Gò, đống
10.Đỉnh ( gò, đống)
11.Cỏ lá nhọn
Aerial survey
Australian aborigines
dunes
Spinifex
TASK 2 Decide whether the statements are True ( T), False ( F) or No
Information ( N.I)
No
Statements
1
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.
5
There are more dunes in the western part of
the desert.
6
Dry salt lakes are in the northern part of the
desert.
T
F
N.I
Paragraph 1
Three great stretches of sandy desert almost circle the
centre of Australia. To the north of Nullabor Plain stretches
the Great Victoria Desert. In the west, the Gibbon, Great
Sandy, and Tanami Deserts comprise an enormous sandy
area. North of Lake Eyre lies the Simpson Desert, the last
part of Australia to be explored
Paragraph 2
The Simpson desert lies between Lake Eyre
in the south, the Macdonnel Ranges in the
north, the Mulligan and the Diamantina
Rivers in the east, and the Macumba and
Finke Rivers in the west. The first European
entered the Simpson Desert in 1845. But the
desert remained a mystery until Madigan
made an aerial survey
in 1929. He named
the desert after Simpson, President of the
South Australian Branch of the Royal
Geographical Society of Australia.
Paragraph 3
In 1936, Colson and an Australian Aborigine took
camels across the desert. They travelled along the border
of South Australia and the Northern Territory. Three years
later Madigan led a scientific expedition across the sand
dunes on a mote northerly route. Colson and Madigan both
travelled eastward across the Simpson Desert.
Paragraph 4
In the Simpson Desert there are different types of
dunes. In the western part of the desert, there is a network
of short dunes, mostly less than 10 metres high. Hummock
grasses grow in loose sand on the crest and spinifex grows
in the corridors between dunes and on the more stable
slopes.
Paragraph 5
In the northern part of the desert, the dunes are
parallel and separated by corridors of low, open shrubland.
Spinifex grows on the slopes of the dunes. These dunes are
deep red – brown, but the sand is pale in the area where
Queensland, South Australia and Northern Territory meet.
Dry salt lakes up to 70kilometres long and 15 kilometres
wide lie between long dunes with crests 20 metres high.
TASK 3
Answer the following questions
1. What are the names of the three great stretches of
sandy deserts 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. What are the dunes like in the western and northern
parts of the desert?
7. How many kinds of grass grow in the Simpson
Desert? What are they?
Card game
Choose the card you like.
There are three kinds of cards.
“Bonus” cards will give you 2 points without any questions
and you can choose another more card .
“Sorry”, unlucky cards will pass your turn to others.
With other cards, you will get 1 point if you have a right
answer to the questions.
Choose the card you like
1
2
Questi
on
4
Questio
n
5
Questio
n
Question
8
Bonus
Bonus
9
Sorry!
3 Question
6
Questio
n
7
Questio
n
10
1
What are the names of the three great
stretches of sandy deserts which circle
the centre of Australia?
They are the Great Victoria Desert, the
Gibbon, Great Sandy and Tanami Deserts
and the Simpson Desert.
2
Where is the Simpson Desert?
It lies between Lake Eyre in the south,
the Macdonnel Ranges in the north, the
Mulligan and the Diamantina Rivers in
the east, and the Macumba and Finke
Rivers in the west.
3
When did the first European enter
the desert?
The first European entered the desert
in 1845.
4
Who was Simpson?
He was the president of the South
Australia Branch of the Royal
Geographical Society of Australia.
5
How did E.A Colson and an Australian
aborigine travel across the desert?
They took camels across the desert.
6
What are the dunes like in the western and
northern parts of the desert?
In the western part, they are short,
mostly less than 10 metres high, and
in the northern part, they are parallel
and are up to 20 metres high.
7
How many kinds of grass grow in the
Simpson Desert? What are they?
Two kinds of grass grow in the
Simpson Desert. They are
hummock grass and spinifex.
Homework
•
Learn the new words and phrase
•
Read the funny story in textbook page 99
•
Prepare for the next lesson : Unit 9 Deserts Speaking
Thank you
