UNIT 9: DESERTS
Lesson A: READING
Period: ..........

I/ AIMS
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to understand the passage about deserts and scan for specific details:
+ Skill: Reading for gist and for specific information.
+ Teaching methods: integrated and mainly communicative.
+ Teaching aids: pictures, cards, posters.
II/ PROCEDURE
TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES
STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

WARM UP (6 mins)
Game: Animals in hiding
+ Get Ss to work in groups of five or six
+ Deliver handouts with the following sentences
+ Ask Ss to find the animals hiding in the sentences
Example:
Close the door at once. -> rat
+The first group to find out all the animals is the winner
LEAD IN
+Which kind of these naimals can live in deserts?
+ Name some others countries which have deserts
+ name some other kinds of animals and plants live in deserts

We’ll get to know more about deserts in today’s lesson
PRE-READING (9 mins)
-* Pre-teaching vocabulary







Checking:
+ Read out the Vienamese translation , synonyms or defintions of the words you have taught Ask Ss to read out the words they hear.











WHILE-READING ( 18 mins)
Activity 1: True/ False statements
+ Ask Ss to work in groups.
+ Get time of about 5 minutes for Ss to read the reading passage them tell them to close their books.
+ Read sentences, one by one .
+ Continue until all the sentences are read
+ Write the naswers of the groups on the board.
+Ask SS to open the book andcheck with the whole class.
Activity 2: Questions and answers
+ Get Ss to read the reading passage and answer the questions.





+ Ask Ss to compare the answers with their partners.
+ Call on some Ss to write the answers on the board.
+ Check with the class.
POST-READING (11 mins)
Discussion
+Break Ss into small groups
+ Tell Ss in groups to discuss the questions
“ Which method should people use to stop desert expansion?”

+ Invite the groups to report their ideas
+ Give feedback and comments
HOMEWORK (1 minute)

Work in groups:
+ Find the animals hiding in the sentences
Explected answers
That will be a real help -> bear
She came late everyday -> camel
He came to America today -> cat
Eric owes me ten cents -> cow
Do good workers succeed ? -> dog
If Roger comes, we will begin .-> frog
In Afril I only came once -> lion
I’ll sing; you hum on key -> monkey
She clothes naked babies -> snake
At last, I, Gerald, had won -> tiger

Answer the questions

Take note
aerial (a) in the air / existing above the ground
Ex: the banyan tree has earial roots
dune(n) an hill of sand near the sea or in a desert
stretch (n) a length or area of a read , water or land
Ex: The stretch of river was broader and deeper
aborigine (n) a member of the tribes that were living in Australia when Europeans arrived there, aboriginal
hummock (n) a small raised area of ground like very small hill, hillock
slop(a) the side of a mountain , hill or valley rises at a very sharp angle and is difficult to go up .
A steep slope
corridor (n) a strip of land that connects one country to another or gives it a rout to the sea through another country
crest (n) the top of a hill or wave
to be on the crest of wave: to feel happy and confident because things are going well
spinifex (n) Cây lá nhọn
shrubland (n) cây bụi
Activity 1: True// False Statements
+ Work in groups
In about 5 minutes Listen to the teacher and the close the book
Work in groups to decide whether the sentences are true or false
Expected answers
1. F 2.F 3. T 4.F 5.F 6.T

+ Activity 2: Answer the questions
Work individually and then compare with the partners
Expected answers
They are Great Victoria Deserts, Gibbon, Great Sandy and Tanami Deserts and Simpson Desert.
It lies between Lake Eyre in the south , the MacDonald Ranges in the north, the Mulligan and the Diamantina Rivers in the east , and the Macumba and Finke Rivers in the west .
In 1845
He was the president of the sount Australian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia .
They took camels across 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