This week we're going to look into several issues related to the body and genes of competitive athletes. Are professional athletes so successful in their respective sports due to an unfair genetic advantage or due to an enormous number of hours they've invested in their training (or perhaps both)? Watch the video above to shed some light on the matter. This is the co-called NATURE (inherited genes) VS NURTURE (the environment - where and how we are raised) debate that can be applied to many fields - from the criminal justice system to the process of adoption. If you adopt a kid who's an offspring of two mentally ill people who were, on top of that, addicts - what is the likelyhood of this kid becoming mentally ill as well, regardless of how well you raise him/her? But we digress (*skrenuti s teme)... Does the fact that you are all Caucasians (*bijelci) who have, on average, a longer torso make you more predisposed (*biti predisponiran) to excel at swimming than, for example, your African-American peers? The issue of genes has also been recently introduce into the world of sports in relation to GENE DOPING (still hypothetical cheating in sports with the use of gene therapy). Thus, genes that we were born with and "engineered" genes (via gene doping) can hypothetically help us achieve better results in sports. !!!!!!!!! Guidelines for 29 and 30 April!!!!! (Deadline 6 MAY) - Reading comprehension (GForm) and 1 online open cloze/word transformation task (educaplay) 1. After watching these two videos above and checking the unfamiliar vocabulary items from this post (certain expressions have been hyperlinked with online dictionaries, as always), go to your workbooks - page 32 - to the text titled "Is the genetically-modified athlete on the way?" 2. You can read the text and/or download the audio of me reading the text and offering explanations of certain vocab items. It's attached below. 3. Please complete this GoogleForm which is basically a digitized version of question and tasks from your workbook. (Deadline 6.5.) - forms.gle/xKJnhnDXxGeYEdMc6 4. After you complete the GoogleForm above, you'll focus your energies on doing target vocabulary practice to become more aware of certain structures and patterns that appear in the English language. You'll complete one short challenge/task based on the text from your workbooks. You have to write the correct form of the words in brackets (i.e. word transformation) and insert the missing ones (i.e. an open cloze task). The words that have been edited out have been edited out for a reason - they might be a part of a phrasal verb or a fixed expression, or the structure of the sentence mandates that only one particular word can be used in the gap. Go to https://game.educaplay.com/ and use PIN: 304155 to join the challenge. Use your names to mark your score. I primarily use this data to see if you've been active. If you face any technical issues regarding this challenge, be sure to try accessing it via an incognito tab. I'm here if you have any questions :). ![]()
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