Language Portfolio (year 11) – Project Work / Cultural Tasks

AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS DE CARVALHOS

Language Portfolio My Dossier (year 11)

Project Work / Cultural Tasks - 1

A Wonderful World – Scientific Development We live on a Breathtaking Planet and we are also part of this Amazing World. Scientists try to help keep our life Wonderful. “The scientific investigation method is important as it provides a systematic and complete way to acquire scientific knowledge. It also teaches us to think critically and analytically. Science discoveries help us to understand and appreciate our environment and improve the quality of life.”

http://scienceray.com/philosophy-of-science/the-scientific-investigation-method/#ixzz14zz6OIYh

Cloning is one of the biological processes used in scientific research. “Cloning is the creation of an organism that is an exact genetic copy of another.” (http:// learn.genetics.utah.edu/.../cloning)

Let’s see how much you know about cloning. Complete the following quiz by choosing the correct option in each case.

1. The science of heredity is called_____.

2. The word that refers to a genetically identical individual is _____.

3. The basic biological unit of heredity - _____

x genetics duplicate molecule

biology clown x gene

psychology x clone embryo

4. The basic structural and functional unit in people and all living things is ______.

5. Popular term for recombinant DNA technology - _____

6. One of two types of molecules that encode genetic information - _____

x cell genetic duplication x DNA

chromosome genetic linkage genetic code

membrane x genetic engineering diploid

7. All of the DNA that a person possesses is called_____.

8. The mixing and splicing of genes from different organisms is called genetic _.

9. When was the first animal cloned?

x genetic material restriction 1960

total genetic content x manipulation 1970

human genome reversal 1975

10. What was the first animal to be cloned?

11. When was the first test tube baby born?

12. When were the first human cells cloned?

A frog 1953 1981

x A bee x 1978 1993

A weasel 1983 2002 Log In, Areal Ed

How did you do? Are you prepared to on a game show? or Do you still lack some general knowledge culture?

Language Portfolio (year 11) – Project Work / Cultural Tasks

AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS DE CARVALHOS

Language Portfolio My Dossier (year 11)

Project Work / Cultural Tasks - 2

Fame – The Sky is the Limit The title, “the sky is the limit”, is an idiomatic expression; it means that “there is no limit to the possibility of success or progress for someone or something.” http://www.learn-english-today.com/idioms/idioms_proverbs.html

In any language idioms and proverbs are used by native speakers but they make the life of learners a bit more difficult.

A. What is the difference between an idiomatic expression and a proverb?

1. Match the expression below to the meaning on the right.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 1 a) to try to understand someone's real feelings or intentions from what they say or write

age before beauty

2 b) different people have different ideas about what is beautiful

read between the lines 3 c) you can't tell everything about a person by the outward appearances; it isn’t possible to make a decision based on first appearances

You can't tell a book by its cover. 4 d) the older person should be allowed to enter first

1 - __b__ 2 - __d___ 3 - __a__ 4 - __c__

2. Now choose the most adequate definition to complete the definitions below.

a. An expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up

b. This is a short, traditional saying in general use. It usually expresses some obvious truth or familiar experience.

An idiom is __a___ A proverb is __b___

B. Now you! Write down 5 or 6 Portuguese idioms (choose the ones you find the most interesting / funny / strange...). Then find an equivalent expression in English. Use the dictionary or the Internet (http://dictionary.sensagent.com/, http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/proverbs.html, www.idioms-today.com)

Bird In The Hand Is Worth Two In The Bush

It's the color of a donkey on the run.

Friends friends, business aside.

From Spain, neither good wind nor good marriage [will come].

Monkeys bite me...!

There's no beauty without an if.

God gives nuts to those who don't have teeth...

Trust the Virgin and don't run...

Women and sardines, you want them to be small.

Head of rotten garlic.