from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Leaf_morphology_no_title.png

• There are an estimated 8000 (nobody really knows) plant species in Spain, 2000 of which are endemic to the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa .
• Potentially, 95% of Spain would be covered in some form of forest. 20-28% of forest cover remains today. 50% of this is pine forest.
• Some 105 species of autochthonous trees grow in Spain (nobody agrees on the exact figure). 44 of these are capable of forming true woods. 33 grow in the Canaries
• The most common tree in Spain is probably the holm oak ( encina ), estimated in 1995 at 682,881,000 specimens. However, despite these numbers many holm oak woods are made up of immature specimens.
• 50% of the 2000 plants found in the Canaries are endemic.

0.- Open a blank Word document. Give it a name. Save it.

1.- Write a list of things you want to know, from the obvious ones to any you are curious about.

2.- After 10 minutes, read the list to the class and listen to the others. Take notes.

3.- Go into ‘Google’ and write between quotation marks (“) the concepts you want to know.

4.- Write down (on the doc) the information and the webs you have visited to get it, explain briefly why they are good.

5.- Now that you have the information, organize it as a mind map on a doc or a piece of paper.
Do it as homework.

6.- Show the information to your teacher (or send it by e-mail) along this week.

In your free time this week, take a digital camera (you can borrow the school’s) and go with your partner to visit both your trees, you have to take at least 6-8 pictures:

– a general of the landscape
– the whole tree with you on the same picture (your partner takes the picture)
– details of the branches
– details of the leaves
– a close-up of the trunk
– some pictures of other specimens of the same tree

The pictures must be taken along this week and brought in next Monday/Wednesday.

Ask the teacher for help whenever you have any doubts or questions.

Next Monday/Wednesday we will work on English structures.

0.- Your teacher gives you back your previous work commented.
1.- Think about the English you need to write a good report on your tree.
2.- Begin writing.

YOUR TASKS:
make groups of four or five

look at these maps of your district, choose one and print it
find where you live and the school address on it, write a different symbol for each place
draw your way from school to all of your home addresses

now you have to walk that way together and look at the trees you meet

- how many trees can you find?
- are they the same species or not?
- name the different trees you find
(Latin name and then you can look for the Catalan, English and Spanish names on Internet)
- draw their shapes and the details of the leaves, flowers, fruits, …
- are they in bloom now, in April?
- remember to take pictures to illustrate your work

now invent a symbol for each different tree species you have found
and draw them on your map

give the map to your teacher and all the images you have drawn or taken (or send them by e-mail)

1.- Read two more chapters of your book, write the answers to the exercises in a doc and send it to me by e-mail.

2.- Go to the park and notice how your tree has changed since our last visit. Write me an e-mail in English, Spanish or Catalen telling me the details, and send me pictures if you have new ones (old ones are also welcome).

3.- Go to MacMillan website and do the listening exercises for 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

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Dictionary
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See this link (irregular vebs and their meanings)!
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