Preparing date:
Teaching date:
Period:
Unit nine: Deserts
reading

I. Aims: Guessing the meaning in the context. Deciding true or false statements
Passage comprehensions and Understanding the funny story.
II. Teaching aids needed: Books.
III. Procedure:
2. Checking the old lesson:
3. New lesson:
time
Teacher’s activities
student’s activities













A: WARM UP:
Write down on the board and demand:
Fill in the blank with the most suitable word.
A ________ is a hot, dry, suitable place.
Introduce the new lesson to the students.
B. Presentation:
+ Before you read:
- Ask students to look at the picture and answer.
? What do you know about desert?
? What kinds of plants and animals live in a desert?
? Name some of the countries which have deserts.
+ A desert is a hot, dry, sandy place.
+ A desert is also a beautiful land of silence and space. The sun shines, the wind blows, and time and space seem endless.
+ Nothing is soft. The sand and the rocks are hard, and many of the plants, such as the cactus, have hard needles instead of leaves.
+ ( Among ten main deserts in the world there are 6 hot deserts and 4 cold deserts)
6 hot deserts: experience high temperatures during the day all year round.
4 cold deserts: have relatively hot summers and extremely cold winters.
+ While you read:
- Ask st to read the passages one before.
- Read again
- Explain students some new words in the text.
- Ask students to read again.
- Correct their mistakes.

Task 1:
- Ask students to read through the passage again.
- Divide the class into pairs to do.
- Call some students to give the answers.
- Ask others students to correct.
- Give the true answers.
Task 2:
- Ask students to read the sentences carefully.
- Ask students to read through the passage again.
- Ask students to do.
- Call some students to give the answers.
- Ask others students to correct.
- Give the true answers.
1. (F) the Great Victoria Desert, the Gibbon, the Great Sandy, the Tanami Deserts, the Simpson Desert.
2. The Simpson Desert , the last part of Australia to be explored.
4. Colson and an Australian Aborigine.
5. There is a network of short dunes.
Task three:
- Ask students to read the questions carefully.
- Ask students to read through the passage again.
- Ask the class to do.
- Where is Simpson Desert located?
- What is to the north of the Simpson Desert?


Find the information in the text about:
Madigan:
_________________________
_________________________
_________________________
The sand dunes:
in the west __________________
in the north __________________
+ After you read:
- Ask student to read the story.
Ask them for the humour of the story.
Explain.

Answer:
Deserts
Listen to teacher.
B. Presentation:
+ Before you read:
- Listen.
- answer.
* cactus
* camel
* nomads
* pasture
* date palms
* oases
* sand
* rock
* ice
* grass
* sand dunes
+ While you read:
- Read the passages
- Listen to teacher’s reading.
- Read the text by self.
- Translate.
- Do the task.


Task 1:
1. Kéo dài (stretch)
2. có cát (sandy)
3. điều tra bằng máy bay (aerial survey)
4. Hội địa lý hoàng gia Austra (Royal Geographical Society)
5. Thổ dân Austral (Australia Aborigine)
cồn cát (dune)
7. độ dốc (sloping)
8. dựng đứng steep)
9. đỉnh (hummock)
10. cỏ lá nhỏ mọc trên xa mạc
(spinifex)

Task two:
1. F.
2. F
3. T
4. F
5. T
6. T



Task three:
Paragraph 1.
The first sentence of Paragraph 2.
1845
The President of the South Australian Branch.
By camels
Paragraph 4
2. They are Hummock grass and spinifex
+ N : The Macdonnel Ranges
+ S : Lake Eyre
+ E : The Mulligan river , the Diamantina
+ W : the Macumba river, the Finke