Unit 9: Undersea World
A: Reading
Thái Bình Dương
Đại Tây Dương
Ấn Độ Dương
Nam Băng Dương
Bắc Băng Dương
Shark
Dolphin
Seal
Jellyfish
Turtle
Vocabulary
- gulf(n):
- beneath( prep):
- submarine (n):
- fall into (v): to be able to divided into st
- water current (n)
- organism (n) = a living being
- be at stake = be at risk
- biodiversity ( n):
- marine life:
Vocabulary
biodiversity
submarine
Water current
Task 1: Fill each blank with one of the word given ( gulf, oversized, biodiversity, challenges, investigate, tiny, samples, provide)
1. Some plants and animals are referred to as .....organisms because they are extremely small.
2. Thank to modern technology, scientists have been able to .......the life of plants and animals that live under the sea.
3. A......is a large area of the sea that is partly surrounded by land.
4. .......is a term that refers to the existence of different kinds of animals and plants which make a balanced environment.
5. These scientists have collected different.........to analyse for their experiment.
tiny
investigate
gulf
biodiversity
samples
Task 2. Answer the questions
1. What percentage of the earth’s surface is covered by seas and oceans?
2. How do scientists now overcome the challenges of the depth?
3. What can submarine do to help scientists know about the undersea world?
4. What can we learn from the satellite photos?
5. What are the three groups. of marine plants and animals?
6. What would happen if the sea biodiversity were not maintained?
1. 75% of the earth’s surface is covered by seas and oceans.
2.By using modern devices
3. They help them to investigate the seabed and bring samples of the marine life back to the surface for further study
4.We can know a wide range of information including water temperature, depth and the undersea populations.
5. They are those that live on or depend on the bottom like the starfish, those that move independently of water currents and those that are carried along by the currents.
6. The marine of life would be at stake if the sea biodiversity were not maintained.
After you read
Complete the summary of the reading passage by filling each blank with a word or phrase given in the box
Plants and animals, discoveries, huge, closely connected, modern, three-quarters, mysterious, biodiversity
Though covering (1).........of the earth`s surface, the ocean has remained(2).......to us until recently.With(3).....technology we have now made important(4)......about the (5)......of marine life. We have learnt that whether tiny or (6)...., all the (7).......of the sea are (8).........
three-quarters
mysterious
modern
discoveries
biodiversity
huge
Plants and animals
Closely connected
Homework
1. Learn by heart the new words
2. Write the summary of the reading passage.