The second term
January 2nd 2010
Period 55
Unit 9: Deserts
Lesson 1: Reading
I. Objectives
By the end of the lesson Ss will be able to:
- understand the passage about deserts and scan for specific information.
- use vocabulary related to the topic of the lesson through exercises.
II. Teaching aids
- Textbook, chalk, posters, pictures.
III. Procedures

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES
STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

I. WARM – UP ( 5 min.)
- Ask Ss to look at pictures in their textbooks and discuss the questions below


1. What is the name of the animal?
2. Where does it live?
3. How are deserts?
4. Name some deserts (Sahara, Simpson, Gobbon...)
* Introduce the title of the lesson U9: DESERTS
Today we`re going to read about Simpson desert.

II. PRESENTATION ( 35 min.)
1. Pre- reading: Gest the meaning of some words
( Vocabulary:
- to comprise :
- enormous (adj)
- mystery (n)
- corridor (n):
- stable (a)
- shrub-land (n)
* Rub out remember
2. While reading :
Task1: Give the Vietnamese equivalents to the following words or phrases
- Ask students to read through the text once to find out some new words, guess the main idea.
- Ask Ss to read the passage silently, stop when they meet a new word or a phrase and find words or phrases in the passage which have the following meaning given in the Task 1.
- Give feedback.












Task 2: Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F):
- Guide Ss the way to do Task 2 and ask them to work in pairs
- Get Ss to check theirs answers and explain their choices.
- T calls on some Ss to read theirs answers and explain their choices.
- T comments and gives feedbacks.


Task 3: Answer the following questions
- Ask Ss to read the passage silently and answer the questions individually
- Ask Ss to work in pairs to compare their answers.
- Call on some Ss to write the answers on the board.
- Check with the class.
- Give feedback.







3. Post reading: * Read this story and answer the questions.
- Ask Ss to work in pairs
- Go around for help
- Call on some pairs to present
- Give comments .

III. CONSOLIDATION & HOMEWORK ( 5`)
- Learn vocabulary
- Prepare section B - SPEAKING
ask ss to read the questions

* Discuss and answer the questions




Answers` suggestion:
1. It is a camel
2. It lives in deserts
3. They are dry, hot. Dunes are around deserts.
4. They are: Sahara, Simpson, Sonoran (Bac My), King Canyon (Uc)
- Ss pay attention and answer the questions.
II. PRESENTATION

- Ss pay attention and take notes

- Ss work in pairs to do the Task 1, 2, 3
- Present on the extra board & then tick on the board
- Others give feedback and correction.
Silent reading

Task 1: Checking the vocabulary : Matching (a poster)


A (English)
B (Vietnamese)

- `aerial servey

- dune
- sloping

- hummock
Australian Aborigine
- crest
- spinifex
- stretch
-Royal Geographical Society of Australia
- steep
- Sandy
- cuộc khảo sát trên không
- đụn cát. cồn cát
- dốc thoai thoải
- gò , đống
- thổ dân úc

- đỉnh , nóc
- cỏ lá nhọn
- kéo dài, căng ra
- Hội địa lí hoàng gia
- dốc đứng
- có cát


Task 2:
1. F (There are five: the Great Victoria, the Gibbon, Great Sandy, Tanami and Simpson)
2. F (Simpson is the last part of Australia.
3. T (Until Madigan made an aerial survey in 1929, he ...)
4. F (Colson and Australia Aborigine)
5. F (In the western ...., there is a network of short dunes, and in the northern part ..., the dunes are ...)
6. T (In the northern .... dry salt lakes ....)
Task 3:
1. There are Great Victoria Deserts, Gibbon, Great Sandy, Tanami deserts and Simpson Deserts.
2. It lies between Lake Eyre in the south, the Macdonnel Ranges in the north