English Lesson - Biomimicry

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22/09/2020 From mimicking to engineering

Discussion :
- Do you think biologists and engineers would be able to work together despite their differences ?

- Find solutions to make communication between scientists and engineers more efficient
Evaluation de la CO : Launchpad entrepreneurship

After watching:
Group discussion
1. Do you think Biologists and Engineers would be able to work
together despite their differences?
Hurdles Benefits
- They don’t speak the same - They can share their personal
“language”: each job has its knowledge, they can learn from
own specificities or methods each other
- Need to find moments for them - They can enlarge their vision of
to work together efficiently the world / broaden their
(place, time, money) knowledge

2. Find solutions to make communication between scientists and


engineers more efficient
- Need to find common goals / a topic on which they can work
together
- Need to standardise their language to be able to understand each
other
- Engineers should take biology lessons at school
25/09/2020 How to describe charts, graphs and diagrams

Cf. worksheet
- Différents types de tableaux, graphiques et diagrammes

- Les différentes parties des graphiques

- Verbes qui expriment une augmentation / diminution / stabilité + gradation de l’intensité

- Adverbes d’intensité

- Description d’une courbe


ENGLISH HOMEWORK DUE TO Friday, September
Terminer la fiche sur la description de graphiques et diagrammes 2nd
- Exercice sur l’approximation

- Completer le texte à trous à l’aide des mots vus dans la fiche

DESCRIBING & ANALYZING CHARTS, GRAPHS AND DIAGRAMS

TYPES OF CHARTS, GRAPHS AND DIAGRAMS


 Label the pictures with the corresponding vocabulary

LINE GRAPH – BAR CHART – DIAGRAM – FLOW CHART – TABLE / GRID – MAP – DIAGRAM – BUBBLE
DIAGRAM – PIE CHART

1 5

BAR CHART BUBBLE DIAGRAM FLOW CHART PIE CHART

3
1
1
1
7

2 1 8

1 9
1
1
7

1 4

MAP TABLE / GRID LINE GRAPH DIAGRAM

 Label the diagrams with the corresponding numbers

4 7
1 THE VERTICAL AXIS THE HORIZONTAL AXIS THE DOTTED LINE

2 THE CURVE 5 THE SHADED AREA 8 THE SOLID LINE

3 THE COLUMN 6 THE BAR THE BROKEN LINE


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DESCRIBING CHARTS, GRAPHS AND DIAGRAMS


I/ DESCRIBING A TENDENCY

 Classify the following verbs in the grid according to what they mean

VERBS

Boom
Climb
Collapse BOOM COLLAPSE KEEP
Cut CLIMB CUT MAINTAIN
Decline EXPAND DECLINE REMAIN STABLE /
Decrease GO UP DECREASE STEADY
Dip
Drop
GROW DIP STAY AT
Expand IMPROVE DROP STAND AT
Fall INCREASE FALL
Go down / go up RAISE GO DOWN
Grow RISE PUSH DOWN
Improve
SHOOT UP REDUCE
Increase
Keep SOAR SLUMP
Maintain
Push down
Raise  Classify the following verbs according to their intensity
Reduce
Remain stable / steady  SOAR – INCREASE – SHOOT UP – BOOM
Rise
INCREASE
Shoot up < SOAR < SHOOT UP < BOOM
Slump  SLUMP –DROP – COLLAPSE – FALL – DIP – DECREASE
Soar
DECREASE
Stand at < DIP < FALL < DROP < < SLUMP
Stay at
COLLAPSE

II/ DESCRIBING INTENSITY

 Classify the following adverbs according to their intensity

ADVERBS
- + ++ +++
MODERATELY SIGNIFICANTLY CONSIDERABLY HUGELY
SLIGHTLY MARKEDLY STEEPLY DRAMATICALLY
SHARPLY
SUBSTANCIALLY

III/ DESCRIBING A CURVE

 Describe the curves by putting the right numbers in the appropriate cases

1 2 3 4 5 6

CRASH 1 ROCKET 2 PLUNGE 1 SLIDE 3 RECOVER 6


PEAK / REACH
PLUMMET 1 PICK UP 6 5 FLUCTUATE 4 BOUNCE BACK 6
A PEAK

IV / DESCRIBING THE SPEED OF A CHANGE

 Transform the following adjectives into adverbs to describe the speed of a change

Rapid  RAPIDLY Swift  SWIFTLY


Quick  QUICKLY Sudden  SUDDENLY
Steady  STEADILY Gradual  GRADUALLY
Slow  SLOWLY Slight  SLIGHTLY

V/ EXPRESSING APPROXIMATION

 Use approximation to describe the following figures

Just under / Just over 65% 1,043


Well under / well over 28% 115
Roughly 21% 9
Nearly
49% 2
Approximately
Around 74% 4
About 33.3333
6
Almost %
Most 92% 749,982
1,256,890,53
98.5%
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OBSERVING CHARTS, GRAPHS AND DIAGRAMS
Feel free to write notes on your document (circle, highlight, use arrows, write, draw, …)
Identify trends (the overall idea of the graph)
- What is happening / what happened
- The main change over time
- The most noticeable / remarkable thing about the document

VOCAB IN CONTEXT
In January, gold sales
_____________ about 200 million
dirhams per month. In February
they _____________ to Dhs 220
million, _____________ to a peak
of 350 million dirhams in March.
Over the next four months, sales _____________ steadily, reaching _____________ of
120 million dirhams in July. In August, there was a _____________ increase. Sales almost
_____________, rising _____________ Dhs 120 million in July to Dhs 210 million in
August. This was followed by a _________________ in September to Dhs 120 million.
From September to October, sales _____________ from Dhs 120 million to Dhs 180
million. In October and November, sales _____________steady, and there was a small
increase in December _____________ 190 million dirhams.

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