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Te ac he r : Phan Th ị Th ạch
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:
- Frig hte ning s pe e d
- Aus tralia
- S ahara
- Fire wo o d
- Pe tro le um
- Mauritania
Unit 9: Deserts – Listening – Task 1: True or False
n
True or False statement
Answer Explanation
1. T Nothing
In a desert,
is soft
everything is hard.
Only
Manytrees
of the with
plants,hard
suchneedles
as the cactus,
2. F
can
havegrow in deserts
hard needles instead of leaves.
3. T Space
Spaceseems
seemto have no limit in the desert.
endless.
Nature causes
This is partly the change
because in changes,
of natural the size
4. F andthe
But location
greatestofdesert
the world deserts.
makers are humans.
There
Rabbits
a millions
are one of rabbit
the agents
in Aus,
that
and
5. T
they
help eatevery
make deserts
plant in
they
Australia.
can find….
Unit 9: Deserts – Listening – Task 2
Listen and answer the questions:
1.1. ItWhat
examines
centraldeserts,
theme what
does they are
the talk
andexamine?
how they are formed.
2.2.It What
is a hot,
is adry, sandy place. It is also a
desert?
beautiful land of silence and space.
3. What causes the growing of the world’s
3. Nature and humans
deserts?
4. They contribute by eating every
4. In what way do rabbits contribute to the
plant they can find. This makes
growing of deserts in Australia
the land become deserts
Unit 9: Deserts – Listening – Task 3: Gap filling
90 percent of the
In developing countries,(1)…………….
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
smaller plants
(2)……………………… . 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
prevent their growth. Algeria planted a green wall
(3)………….
of trees across the edge of the Sahara to stop the
spreading . Mauritania planted
desert sand from (4)………………
capital . Iran puts a
a similar wall around its (5)…………..
thin covering of petroleum on sandy areas and plant
canals
trees. Other countries build long (6)…..………. to
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 MEASURES TO.(2)…THE
GROWTH OF DESERT GROWTH OF DESERT
(3) (4) (5) (6)