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Continue Activity 20 below
• Put the nouns in the previous exercise in the correct place to complete the table.

Countable Uncountable
• fingers • water

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21. With your teacher’s help, compose a brief explanation windpipe (n.):
Verb tense: simple present. Verb forms: passive, past participle
describing the respiratory system in your notebook. tráquea

• Copy the sentences you worked on in Activity 18. Look at the example.

The larynx is the organ where air passes through to go down to the trachea.

• Add, substitute or remove the necessary segments to compose your explanation.
Look at the example.

The larynx is the organ where air passes through to go down to the trachea,
[which] [is] [a] windpipe made of reinforced cartilage. is called trachea.

• Write the first draft down. Look at the example.

1 Draft of the explanation
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The larynx is the organ where air passes through to go down to the
trachea, it is a windpipe made of reinforced cartilage.

• Draw your own picture to illustrate the description.
For our diagram

22. Write a final version of the explanation with more information
from the sentences in your notebook. You do not have to use all
of them, but the explanation has to be clear, accurate and precise.

session 6 The mouth is the first segment of the digestive tract; it is where food
Look at the example.

is chewed before going down through the trachea to be partially
digested in the stomach, thanks to the action of enzymes and acid.

Remember

Keep in mind that
explanations have
to be brief and
precise in order to
be suitable for a
diagram.

102 Studentʼs Book / Practice 6