Summary: KIWI PHOTO Street scene, New Plymouth, New Zealand ACADEMIC WORD If you shuffle playing cards, you rearrange them in, usually a random order. Many digital music players have a shuffle function, which allows you to hear your tracks in a random order. A Cabinet Reshuffle is when the Cabinet – the part of Government made up of senior Ministers, is changed by the Prime Minister, with some Ministers losing their jobs and others moving to different jobs. And shuffle can also be used for a slow way of walking, in which the feet don’t leave the ground. TEST Here are FOUR sentences with the word of the day. But only THREE are correct. Which is the Odd One Out? Remember to shuffle the pack before you hand out the cards to everyone. She lost her job in the Cabinet shuffle and decided to retire from politics altogether. She sat at her desk, nervously shuffling her papers while she waited for the interview. We’ll need to shuffle people around to cover the gaps while you are away. PRACTICE Do you ever use the shuffle function on your music player? When do people shuffle along, instead of walking normally? KIWI QUIZ Professor Mason Durie is well-known in New Zealand for his ‘House with four walls’ (Whare Tapa Wha) model of _____ health / leadership / research VIDEO Today’s video looks at evolution. Click on pause on your podomatic player and click on play to watch the video and answer the questions below. When it’s over, click on ‘play’ again on the podomatic player to hear me give the answers to the questions. 1) How many processes are there which can lead to evolution? one five ten 2) If the gene pool remains constant _______ the population cannot increase hair colour remains the same evolution has not occurred 3) What metaphor is used to represent the rearrangement of the gene pool over time? playing cards the tree of life a stone dropped into a pond 4) Which driver of evolution is represented by the ring finger? variable health non-random mating unpredictable disaster 5) People with red hair ____ have low levels of vitamin D have increased levels of fertility can absorb more light 6) Speciation is also known as _____ micro-evolution meso-evolution macro-evolution
