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Date Posted: 18:27:59 07/31/03 Thu
Author: Viviane Coelho Caldeira Ramos
Subject: 13th task

The activities are based on an original material from a New Zealander biology book text, for students of year 12 (16-17 years old). I think they would be interesting as the English teacher can work together with the Biology teacher, creating an interaction among the subjects, the so called and praised “ interdisciplinariedade”.

Activity 1- Classification of Marsupials
The biology teacher can help giving information on how animals are given names, their families, species, etc. The English teacher can warm up by giving basic information about the marsupials, such as place of origin. Then, he/she will divide the class into pairs. One person will receive a paper with drawings of several marsupials, their names and main characteristics. The other will have a flow chart/ organ gram that explains the differences among the marsupials, such as vision, teeth and tail, dividing them into superfamilies. The students would have to classify each marsupial into the superfamilies. For that they will need to ask the other questions such as “How many incisors does the kangaroo have?” or “ Is the Tasmanian Wolf blind?”.
This activity can be considered as sharing information with restricted cooperation as they have to discover missing information

Activity 2- Dental Adaptation in Mammals
In this activity the Biology teacher help is essential, and cooperation would be vital. This activity can be done while the students are learning about evolution and Darwin’s theory. The teacher should divide the class into pairs; one will have drawings of several mammals, such as whales, shrews, lemur, etc, with their diet and feeding mode. The other will have drawings of these animals’ skulls, showing their dental features. Students should relate each animal to their skulls. To do that they will need extra information about each animal, so that they can find out what are the dental adaptations that each of then have in order to eat. This information can be given by the Biology teacher that can use the same examples in his/her class to talk about the evolution.

This activity can also be considered as sharing information with restricted cooperation.

Bibliography:
LITTLEWOOD, W. Communicative language teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge Univeristy Press, 1981. p. 16 to 42
ALLAN, Richard. GREENWOOD, Tracey. Biology: year 12. Hamilton: Tutor Courseware, 1998

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