Unit 9: Deserts-Listening (chuẩn) - E12

Work in pairs. Ask and answer the following questions.
1. What is a desert?
2. How is a desert formed?
3. Can human beings make a desert? Why/ Why not?

* Vocabulary:
1. cool (a)  cool (v)
2. canal (n)
[kə'næl]
kênh, sông đào
3. needle (n)
['ni:dl]
kim,l¸ kim
4. colony (n)
['k ləni]ɔ
thuéc ®Þa
5. firewood (n)
['faiəwud]
cñi
6. edge (n)
[ed ]ʒ
riµ, c¹nh
7. petroleum (n)
[pə'trouliəm]

Iraq is very rich in petroleum.
lµm cho m¸t, nguéi
dÇu




canal
needle
colony
firewood
edge
kênh, sông đào
kim, l¸ kim
thuéc ®Þa
cñi
riµ, c¹nh
dÇu
petroleum

frightening speed
Australia
Sahara
firewood
petroleum
Mauritania

Task1. Are the following statements true (T) or false (F)?
T F




1. In a desert, everything is hard.
2. Only trees with hard needles can grow in desert.
3. Space seems to have no limit in the desert.
4.Nature causes the change in the size and
location of the world’s desert.
5.Rabbits are one of the agents that help make
deserts in Australia.


Task 2. Answer the following questions
C EB D
A
F

Task2. Answer the following questions.
1. What central theme does the talk examine?
2. What is a desert?
3. What causes the growing of the world’s deserts?
4. In what way do rabbits contribute to the growing of
deserts in Australia?
It examines deserts, what they are and how they are formed.
It examines deserts, what they are and how they are formed.
It is
It is


a hot, dry, sandy place. It is also a beautiful land of
a hot, dry, sandy place. It is also a beautiful land of


silence and space. The sun shines, the wind blows, and
silence and space. The sun shines, the wind blows, and
time and space seem endless.
time and space seem endless.
Nature and humans.
Nature and humans.

They contribute by eating every plant they can find.
They contribute by eating every plant they can find.


This makes the land become desert.
This makes the land become desert.

Task3. Fill in the missing word(s)
In the developing countries, (1) ……………… of the
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 (2) ……………………
When leaves fall from a tree, they make the land richer.
When trees are gone, the small plants die and the land
becomes desert.
Humans can make deserts, but humans can also (3)….
…………… their growth. Algeria planted a green wall of
trees across the edge of the Sahara to stop the desert and
sand from (4) ……………… .Mauritania planted a similar
wall around its (5) ………… . Iran puts a thin covering of
petroleum on sandy areas and plant trees. Other countries
build long (6) …………… to bring water to the desert areas.
90 percent
smaller plants
prevent
spreading
capital
canals

Work in groups. Summarize the main ideas of the expert’s
Talk. Use the following suggestions:
 What is desert?
 What causes the growth of a desert?
 What should humans do to prevent the
growth of deserts?

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