Giáo án Tiếng Anh lớp 12 Unit 9 Deserts

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.

Work in groups:

+ Find the animals hiding in the sentences

Explected answers:

1. That will be a real help -> bear
2. She came late everyday -> camel
3. He came to America today -> cat
4. Eric owes me ten cents -> cow
5. Do good workers succeed ? -> dog
6. If Roger comes, we will begin .-> frog
7. In Afril I only came once -> lion
8. I’ll sing; you hum on key -> monkey
9. She clothes naked babies -> snake
10. At last, I, Gerald, had won -> tiger

Answer the questions:

Take note

1. aerial (a) in the air/existing above the ground

Ex: the banyan tree has earial roots

2. dune(n) an hill of sand near the sea or in a desert

3. stretch (n) a length or area of a read, water or land

Ex: The stretch of river was broader and deeper

4. aborigine (n) a member of the tribes that were living in

Australia when Europeans arrived there, aboriginal.

5. hummock (n) a small raised area of ground like very small hill, hillock

6. slop(a) the side of a mountain, hill or valley rises at a very sharp angle and is difficult to go up.

7. A steep slope

8. corridor (n) a strip of land that connects one country to another or gives it a rout to the sea through another country

9. crest (n) the top of a hill or wave

10. to be on the crest of wave: to feel happy and confident

because things are going well

11. spinifex (n) Cây lá nhọn

12. shrubland (n) cây bụi