Unit 2. Food and nutrition

We are studying here the basics of human nutrition, its relationship with the care and development of our body, as well as its implications for health and illness.

How can you start?. 1. Check you understand the meaning of the words in blue;   2. Underline unknown vocabulary, look at the dictionary and copy these words your exercise book.

then read one page and copy and answer book exercises, ask the teacher those exercises that you do not understand.

There are a huge amount of food resources, here there are just some funny: the healthy weight ,  nutrition and good health  ,  diet an exercise  ,  audio BBC 
Some videos to improve listening skills: The benefits of fiber,  Functional foods ,  Food additives effects on kids ,  and Fast food survival .

Unit 2 exercises with solutions.
Outro video: Super autopista de la alimentación.

Premios Nobel

Estanse dando a coñecer estes días os Premios Nobel 2012. O Premio Nobel de Física é para os "pais" do Bosón de Higgs. Hai máis de 50 anos propuxeron un mecanismo para explicar a formación da materia no universo e que se desenvolveu dando o que hoxe se coñece como física de partículas. Os seus cálculos teóricos foron comprobados recientemente no CERN suízo. É polo tanto un premio e recoñecemento á ciencia europea.
Onte douse a coñecer tamén o Premio Nobel de Mediciña, foi para os científicos que estudiaron e xplicaron con detalle os movementos de vesículas (con moléculas) no interior da célula. É un momento adecuado para nos, que estamos estudiando a célula.
Por certo sabedes quen foi Alfred Nobel?. É o premio con maior prestíxio na comunidade científica a nivel mundial, e incluso o ranking de universidades se fai atendendo a estudiantes ou profesores "nobeles" que se relacionan con esas institutcións. En España tan so podemos citar a D Santiago Ramón y Cajal (estudiando as neuronas e a sinapse), e Severo Ochoa (éste último traballando en EEUU no ADN). Lamentablemente é un síntoma da ciencia española.
Os próximos anos veremos premios relacionados co cerebro, que é en este momento un reto para entender o seu funcionamento a nivel molecular.

Unit 1 The Human Body: cells, tissues and systems

Hi everyone, we are going to share this small web space, this blog will help you (to study, to enjoy and and to learn more). We have to use english at the classroom, it is hard, but we shall be proud at the end of the Year, I am sure.
Try to focus on words in black and blue at the book, repeat, write and try to understand them.
You should practice doing activities and work on Biology at least twice a week.
Stem cells are cells capable of regenerating one or more different cell types. Stem cells are will be part of medicine treatment of some serious illness such as Alzheimer or heart attack.
 To those who want to know more about these stem cells try here.
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 2013 is coming, you can write name/s and bring it to the class. Last year the Nobel Prize was awarded to Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for their discovery that "mature, specialised cells can be reprogrammed to become immature cells capable of developing into all tissues of the body. Does it sound like stem cells?.
Some videos:  Parts os an animal cell,  A cell rap (funny),  The inner life of the cell (animation)
Higher level, quite useful with transcript, very well explained (much better than mine!) Atour of the cell.   Types of human tissue.  Stem cells1  Stem cells2
Other videos:

As soon as we finish the Unit 1 we can do a quick test

The unit 1 test will be quite similar to the hand out I gave it to you with true/false and multiple choice questions, a cell table and a microscope figure.

The microscope names will be written on the exam, you have to find where the names are placed

You have to read the textbook unit 1 (more than once) and answer the exercises I told you ( they are written at the vocabulary hand out). Test questions can be related with the textbook questions

The vocabulary  hand out (I gave it to you) is a help to understand your textbook.

The unit 1 handout has also a figure explaining stem cells, look at it. Remember that  the textbook  exercises  must be done at  your exercise book.

Back to school again!

It´s school time again! You are probably feeling excited and maybe a little sad that summer is over. Some pupils feel nervous or a little scared on the first day of school because all the new things: new teachers, new friends, and maybe a new school. Luckily, these "new" worries only stick around for a little while.
We kicked off the school by introducing ourselves and talking about all the stuff we´ll be doing this year, mainly rules and what to do to get a good Grade.
Third Secondary Year is a big change from middle school to a high school and we would like to help you adjust. Here are a few tips for a fantastic school year:

• get enough sleep
• eat a healthy breakfast
• try your best
• use good work habits, like writing down your assignments and turning in your homework on time
•  take your time with school work. If you don´t understand something, ask the teacher
• keep a sense of humor.