Date of preparing:……/..../200…..
Date of teaching:……/ …./200…..
Class:………………
Unit 9
Deserts
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Period N
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55 - Lesson 1: Reading
I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim:
- Guessing the meaning in the context. Deciding true or false statements
- Passage comprehensions and Understanding the humour of the story.
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Lives of plants animals in deserts.
- Language: Common knowledge of the life of plants and animals in the deserts
- New words: Words related to the lives of plants and animals in deserts.
3. Skills:
- Guessing meaning in context, deciding on true or false and passage comprehension.
II. Method:
- Integrated, mainly communicative.
III. Teaching aids:
- Picture, board, chalks, textbook, handouts,…
IV. Procedure:
Time
3
3
5
2
10

- call on some Ss to
answer in front of the
class.
- comment and give
correct answer.
- present the task: Read
the passage and choose
the statements are True
or False.
Content
A. Warm- up (3): Fill in the blank with the
most suitable word:
A..is a hot, dry sandy place.
Answer:
Desert
B. Pre- reading:
I. Ask and answer the questions:
Suggested answers:
1. dry, few trees, little or no water, little
rainfall, few people and animals live in a
desert
2. camels, scorpions, cactus..
3. Egypt, Australia, China..
II. Vocabulary:
- aerial (adj) ['eril] : trên không
- dune (n) [dju:n] : đụn cát
- stretch (n) [stret]: dải đất, dải nớc
- aborigine (n) [,ổb'ridini:z] : thổ dân úc
- hummock (n) ['hmk] : gò, đống
- slope (n) [sloup] : dốc, đờng dốc

teacher then ask and
answer the questions in
the book.
- work in pairs.
- some Ss ask and
answer in front of the
- listen carefully
- repeat after the
teacher in chorus and
individual and write
down.
- do the task
individually.
- read the passage in
silence and do task 1.
- compare the answer
with a partner.

- some Ss answer in
front of the class.
- listen to the teacher
then read the passage
and choose the
statements are True or
False.

Date of preparing:……/..../200…..
Date of teaching:……/ …./200…..
Class:……………
Unit 9

- go around the class and
offers help if necessary.
- call on some Ss to give
their answers.
- give feedback and
suggested answers.
- ask some questions.
- guide Ss how to practise.
- ask Ss to work in pairs.
- explain some new words.
- walk around and help
them.
- call Ss to say.
- correct their mistakes.
A. Warm- up: Listen and write down
words of animals and trees:
Answers:
Grass, goat, sheep, buffalo, banana, camel,
horse, date palm, cactus
Questions:
- Which animals and plants can’t live in the
desert?
- buffalo, banana, horse
- Why?
- Because they can’t stand the heat and
need a lot of water.
B. Pre- speaking: Task 1:
Model:
- What kinds of trees and animals on this
list do you think might exist in the desert?

- guide Ss how to practise.
- ask Ss to work in groups
- call some groups of Ss to
stand up and practise.
- correct their mistakes.
- I don’t think they can live in such hot
weather. Moreover, we have never seen
banana trees in pictures taken in the desert,
have we?
………………
C. While- speaking: Task 2:
Useful expressions:
- hot
- dry
- little rainfall, much sunshine, few
grasses, few animals, few people,
sandy……..
Model:
- What do you know about the climate in
the desert?
- It is said that it’s very hot in the daytime
but it’s very cold at night.
- I see, but it says in the books that there
are some cold deserts where it’s very cold
at some time of the year.
- And please tell me about the rainfall.
How often does it rain here?
- It rarely rains there so everything is very
dry.
- Are there 4 seasons in the deserts?

- some pairs of Ss
stand up and report in
front of the class.
- imagine your life
in ten years. Say at
least five sentences
about yourself and
your family.
- listen carefully to
the teacher’s
guiding.
- work in groups.
- some groups of Ss
stand up and
practise.
3’ - summarize the main
points.
- assign homework.
would be telephone waves/ signals in the
desert? And how can we charge the
battery?
…………
E. Wrapping:
- write a passage to
say why desert is not
a favorable place for
people and animals
to live (in not more
than 50 words
- prepare the

following sentence with
their own word.
- go around the class and
offers help if necessary.
- call on some Ss to answer
in front of the class.
- give feedback and correct
answers.
A. Warm- up: complete the following
sentence with your own word.
A desert is a place……….
Suggested answers:
- …….where there are no roads,
buildings, cars, rivers.
-……...where it’s hard to live.
- ……..where it is very hot during the
daytime but very cold at night.
- ………where there are no plants but
- complete the
following sentence
with their own word.
- some Ss answer in
front of the class.