Doretta Ardu

Raffaella Beolé

Roy Palmer

L’argomento. Life Reflections è rivolto agli studenti dei Licei delle Scienze Umane (Indirizzo tradizionale e Opzione economico-sociale).
 
 I contenuti sono stati ordinati secondo criteri di graduale complessità concettuale e linguistica e vengono esplorati utilizzando le quattro abilità in modo omogeneo ed integrato.
 
 La struttura. Life Reflections è diviso in sei Moduli, ognuno dei quali è ripartito in tre sezioni:
 
 1. Contents Section – Divisa in Unità, contiene testi e attività che riguardano i contenuti specifici della specializzazione già affrontati in L1. Ogni Unità è suddivisa in brevi Capitoli per favorire non solo uno studio più parcellizzato, ma anche la scelta antologica da parte dell’insegnante. Brevi box di approfondimento, denominati Moving Deeper, permettono di ampliare le conoscenze sull’argomento. Un ricco apparato iconografico correda i brani di lettura, per ognuno dei quali è previsto un esauriente glossario.
 
 2. Revision and Practice – Si occupa di contenuti inerenti alla disciplina ponendo particolare attenzione all’arricchimento lessicale, strutturale e allo sviluppo delle quattro abilità linguistiche. Presenta le seguenti ripartizioni: <ul><li>Vocabulary. Comprende specifiche attività per il conseguimento del lessico più importante del Modulo.
</li><li>Grammar. Propone il rinforzo delle strutture morfo-sintattiche più ricorrenti.
</li><li>Communication. Offre testi e attività di consolidamento dei contenuti appresi per sviluppare le quattro abilità linguistiche: Reading – Listening – Speaking – Writing.
</li></ul>3. Language Immersion – È volta al potenziamento della lingua tramite l’esplorazione di materie non linguistiche in inglese e la pratica di esercitazioni per certificazione linguistica. <ul><li>CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning). Alla fine di ogni Modulo è presente un CLIL CORNER che si collega alle tematiche presentate in alcune delle discipline curriculari: Biologia, Scienze Naturali, Filosofia, Storia, Diritto, Arte. Gli argomenti proposti possono favorire una didattica cross-curricolare, coinvolgendo docenti delle materie citate.
</li><li>B2 – Gli studenti hanno l’opportunità di fare pratica di alcuni dei test di una delle più popolari certificazioni linguistiche (Cambridge English Language Assessment) a livello B2 del Quadro Comune Europeo di Riferimento Linguistico.</li></ul>

Module 1 - Anthropology

Unit 1 - The science of man

Unit 2 - Social aspects of Anthropology

Vocabulary

Grammar

Communication

B2 (Family ties)

CLIL (Biology • Darwin’s Theory)

Module 2 - Pedagogy

Unit 1 - Pedagogy, education and school

Unit 2 - Teaching and learning theories

Unit 3 - Teaching and learning in action

B2 (At the youth club)

CLIL (Philosophy • Theories of knowledge)

Module 3 - Psychology

Unit 1 - Psychology and psychologies

Unit 2 - Psychology and learning

Unit 3 - Towards adolescence

Unit 4 - Teen hot issues

B2 (It stings like hell! The bullet ant initiation ceremony)

CLIL (Natural Science • Ethology)

Module 4 - Sociology

Unit 1 - Sociology, society and the media

Unit 2 -  Politics, policies and society

B2 (Television addiction)

CLIL (History • The Cold War and the birth of the Internet)

Module 5 - Law and economics

Unit 1 - Rights and laws

Unit 2 - Economics

B2 (Exploited childhood)

CLIL (International Law • European Institutions)

Module 6 - Literature

Unit 1 - Poetry

Unit 2 - The Novel

Unit 3 - The Short Story

Unit 4 - Drama

B2 (The many facets of reading)

CLIL (History of Art • The Pre-Raphaelites)

CLIL CLIL CLIL BIOLOGY DARWIN S THEORY Read the information below and explain how natural and artificial selection differ. Charles Darwin used information from several disciplines in developing his theory of evolution and gathered1 data for 20 years before publishing The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859. He was impressed by the number of variations within living species, especially in domestic animals. Even in his day, there were breeding2 programs for artificial selection to determine certain characteristics in animals, especially dogs. However, since all dogs 1. gathered: brought together, belong to the same species, they share the same gene pool3, which collected 4 means they can interbreed and produce fertile offspring. Darwin 2. breeding: keeping animals came to the conclusion that geologically older species of life gave for reproductive purposes 3. gene pool: all the genes rise5 to geologically younger and different species through a process available within populations of natural selection. of a particular species 4. interbreed: put together animals of different species for reproductive purposes 5. give rise to: to cause something to happen Complete the sentences below to make definitions. a. b. Variation Competition c. d. e. Offspring Genetics Natural selection a. 38 b. 1. is when organisms are rivals. 2. is when organisms produce more offspring than can survive. 3. is when organisms pass their traits onto their offspring. 4. is when organisms with the most successful traits survive and reproduce. 5. is when there are differences in each population. c. d. e. 

language immersion Read an adaptation of a scientific text written by the American Geological Society and match Darwin s ideas with statements made by biologist Ernst Mayr.   Darwin s Theory of Evolution Darwin s theory of evolution can be summarized in four statements. a. Variation exists among individuals within species and scientists are aware of variation in natural populations. This variation enables individuals to survive in a given environment and produce offspring that inherit the same characteristics. b. Organisms produce more offspring than the environment can support and more individuals that can survive to maturity. For example, a female salmon produces about 28,000 eggs and one oyster can produce 114,000,000 in a single spawning. If all survived, the Earth would be overpopulated. c. Competition exists among individuals, and not all the young survive to become reproducing adults: some die by accident, others succumb to competition with other individuals. The most intense competition may be in the same environment between individuals of the same species. The ones that survive pass on their genes to the next generation. d. The organisms whose variations best fit them to the environment are those most likely to survive, reproduce, and pass those variations on to the next generation. Some variations are neutral (for example, eye colour), others increase the chances of survival, still others may even reduce them (for example, genetically transmitted diseases). The process by which favourable variations are transmitted to the next generation is called natural selection. So the  fittest  are those individuals that survive to adulthood and reproduce in order to transmit their genes. Evolution occurs only when advantageous genetic variations are passed on and become represented with increasing frequency in succeeding generations.   Mayr on  Darwin and the Evolutionary Theory in Biology  (1959) 1. Species have great fertility. They make more offspring than can grow to adulthood. 2. Populations remain roughly the same size and food resources are limited. This means that species have to fight for survival. 3. In sexually reproducing species, generally no two individuals are identical, they will differ, if only in minor characteristics. 4. Variation is hereditary. a. b. c. d. Match the underlined words in the text above with their Italian translations below. a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. i. (li rende) adatti: .......................................... (in) aumento: ............................................. caso: ........................................................... fecondazione (uova di pesce): .................... ereditano: ................................................... età adulta: .................................................. geni: ........................................................... malattie trasmesse geneticamente: ............. maturità: .................................................... j. k. l. m. n. o. p. q. r. ostrica: ...................................................... consente: .................................................. (il) più adatto: ........................................... prole: ........................................................ soccombono: ............................................ sopravvivere: ............................................ sovrappopolato: ........................................ successive: ................................................ (sono) trasmesse: ...................................... 39 

Life Reflections, rivolto agli studenti dei Licei delle Scienze Umane, offre contenuti graduali su varie abilità linguistiche e culturali.

Life Reflections

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