martes, 6 de marzo de 2018

The Blue Planet Effect – EBAU Question 3



1.Warmer:



1.What does the term ‘blue planet’ refer to and why?

2.What do you think the blue planet effect is?



2.While watching

Watch the video and answer the questions.BLUE PLANET VIDEO

3.What is the Blue Planet series about?

4.Name as many sea creatures as you can. (Write in Spanish if you do not know the word in English)

5.How do you think this type of series influences young people?



Read the introduction to the text to find out the answer to question 5.



3.Gist Reading

Read the text and answer the following questions about these people:






a) Who are they?
b) What do they do at the moment?

Cathy Lucas



David Duffy



Prof. Mark Briffa
,






The Blue Planet effect: why marine biology courses are booming

Thanks in part to the BBC wildlife series, there has been a sea change in the popularity of marine biology courses and the study of the world’s oceans

When she was just 12 years old, an impressionable Cathy Lucas, now associate professor in marine biology at the University of Southampton, met Sir David Attenborough. He’d come to talk to students about his 1979 landmark wildlife series Life on Earth. “I thrust him my copy of his book to sign. He inspired me to go on and study zoology.”Lucas now teaches students on Southampton’s marine biology degrees based at the National Oceanography Centre. Like many universities around the country, Southampton is noticing the “Blue Planet effect” on the numbers of students interested in the field. “Big series such as these are critical in raising awareness of the issues facing marine wildlife,” says Lucas.

Even between the first and second series, there have been dramatic changes in the oceans, says David Duffy, a research fellow at Bangor University. “Most of these changes can be traced back to human activity, which is having a devastating impact.”Duffy is working with scientists at the Sea Turtle hospital in the Whitney laboratory for marine bioscience at the University of Florida, investigating the huge rise in cases of young turtles suffering cancerous tumours. “Numbers worldwide are skyrocketing and this is almost certainly due to human activity, but we don’t know exactly what activity,” he says.Drawing on techniques he developed during five years spent researching human cancers, Duffy has been analysing samples from the turtles operated on: “I became convinced that the cutting-edge techniques I was using could be applied more broadly, so I embarked upon a project that brought me back to wildlife and the sea – having studied marine snails as a postgrad.”

From acidification of the oceans to the aggression of hermit crabs, there’s no shortage of research avenues, says Prof Mark Briffa who’s taught students on Plymouth University’s one-year master of research (MRes) in marine biology. As professor of animal behaviour in the School of Biological and Marine Sciences, he’s currently researching how and why sea anemones fight.“We’re still seeing students coming through who were inspired by the first Blue Planet series,” he says.

Plymouth accepts about 20 students on the year-long course, which kicks off with some taught modules to build research skills. Students then pursue individual research projects, working with university researchers or those based at the nearby Marine Biological Association. They may investigate local shores, go offshore or travel to a research facility in Ischia, Italy.“The degree gives you a chance to dip your toe into research and see if it’s for you,” says Briffa. Students go on to find work with marine agencies and environmental consultancies, he says.Briffa hopes the students also leave inspired with a sense of wonder and curiosity: “I can go to a local rocky shore and pick up a single rock and find some major divisions of life – that can’t fail to fascinate anyone.“It sparks questions of why animals live where they do and how they survived. There’s a whole world down there that people simply aren’t aware of.”

4.Vocabulary: Reread the text and find words or phrases for the following:



1. easily affected

2. noticeable

3. give (strongly)

4. a 3-4 year course you study at university

5.subject

6.make conscious of

7.to discover the origin of something

8.highly destructive

9.to increase rapidly

10.to get ideas from

11.small amount of something

12.very modern/up to date

13.to start (something difficult)

14. someone studying a Master

15.plenty of

16.presently

17. begin/start (at a particular time)

18.to follow (a course)

19. to try doing something, in order to test whether it will be successful or suitable

20. sense of wonder is an intellectual and emotional state frequently invoked in discussions of science fiction.

21. land along the edge of the sea or lake

22.conscious of





from Mary Finbow



KEY



1.Warmer:



1.What does the term ‘blue planet’ refer to and why? Planet Earth and its’ oceans



2.What do you think the blue planet effect is? Popularity of Marine Biology Courses due to watching animal/wildlife programmes



2.While watching



Watch the video and answer the questions.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_38JDGnr0vA



3.What is the Blue Planet series about?

4.Name as many sea creatures as you can. (Write in Spanish if you do not know the word in English)

5.How do you think this type of series influences young people? Encourages them to consider studying Marine Biology



Read the introduction to the text to find out the answer to question 5. Popularity of Marine Biology Courses due to watching animal/wildlife programmes



3.Gist Reading



Read the text and answer the following questions about these people:






a) Who are they?
b) What do they do at the moment?

Cathy Lucas

associate professor in marine biology at the University of Southampton Lucas now teaches students on Southampton’s marine biology degrees based at the National Oceanography Centre.
David Duffy

a research fellow at Bangor University Duffy is working with scientists at the Sea Turtle hospital in the Whitney laboratory for marine bioscience at the University of Florida, investigating the huge rise in cases of young turtles suffering cancerous tumours
Prof. Mark Briffa

Prof Mark Briffa who’s taught students on Plymouth University’s one-year master of research (MRes) in marine biology. Now professor of animal behaviour in the School of Biological and Marine Sciences
He’s currently researching how and why sea anemones fight.






The Blue Planet effect: why marine biology courses are booming

Thanks in part to the BBC wildlife series, there has been a sea change in the popularity of marine biology courses and the study of the world’s oceans

When she was just 12 years old, an impressionable Cathy Lucas, now associate professor in marine biology at the University of Southampton, met Sir David Attenborough. He’d come to talk to students about his 1979 landmark wildlife series Life on Earth. “I thrust him my copy of his book to sign. He inspired me to go on and study zoology.”

Lucas now teaches students on Southampton’s marine biology degrees based at the National Oceanography Centre. Like many universities around the country, Southampton is noticing the “Blue Planet effect” on the numbers of students interested in the field. “Big series such as these are critical in raising awareness of the issues facing marine wildlife,” says Lucas.

Even between the first and second series, there have been dramatic changes in the oceans, says David Duffy, a research fellow at Bangor University. “Most of these changes can be traced back to human activity, which is having a devastating impact.”

Duffy is working with scientists at the Sea Turtle hospital in the Whitney laboratory for marine bioscience at the University of Florida, investigating the huge rise in cases of young turtles suffering cancerous tumours. “Numbers worldwide are skyrocketing and this is almost certainly due to human activity, but we don’t know exactly what activity,” he says.

Drawing on techniques he developed during five years spent researching human cancers, Duffy has been analysing samples from the turtles operated on: “I became convinced that the cutting-edge techniques I was using could be applied more broadly, so I embarked upon a project that brought me back to wildlife and the sea – having studied marine snails as a postgrad.

From acidification of the oceans to the aggression of hermit crabs, there’s no shortage of research avenues, says Prof Mark Briffa who’s taught students on Plymouth University’s one-year master of research (MRes) in marine biology. As professor of animal behaviour in the School of Biological and Marine Sciences, he’s currently researching how and why sea anemones fight.

We’re still seeing students coming through who were inspired by the first Blue Planet series,” he says.

Plymouth accepts about 20 students on the year-long course, which kicks off with some taught modules to build research skills. Students then pursue individual research projects, working with university researchers or those based at the nearby Marine Biological Association. They may investigate local shores, go offshore or travel to a research facility in Ischia, Italy.

The degree gives you a chance to dip your toe into research and see if it’s for you,” says Briffa. Students go on to find work with marine agencies and environmental consultancies, he says.

Briffa hopes the students also leave inspired with a sense of wonder and curiosity: “I can go to a local rocky shore and pick up a single rock and find some major divisions of life – that can’t fail to fascinate anyone.

It sparks questions of why animals live where they do and how they survived. There’s a whole world down there that people simply aren’t aware of.”



4.Vocabuary

Reread the text and find words or phrases for the following: (See highlighted words in text.)

1. easily affected

2. noticeable

3. give (strongly)

4. a 3-4 year course you study at university

5.subject

6.make conscious of

7.to discover the origin of something

8.highly destructive

9.to increase rapidly

10.to get ideas from

11.small amount of something

12.very modern/up to date

13.to start (something difficult)

14. someone studying a Master

15.plenty of

16.presently

17. begin/start (at a particular time)

18.to follow (a course)

19. to try doing something, in order to test whether it will be successful or suitable

20. sense of wonder is an intellectual and emotional state frequently invoked in discussions of science fiction.

21. land along the edge of the sea or lake

22.conscious of




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