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THE OXFORD SCHOOL

TERM TEST WEEK

TERM III -2016

8th-Grade

Term Tests for 8th grade will take place from THURSDAY 1ST OF DECEMBER through TUESDAY

6TH OF DECEMBER. The schedule for 8th grade Term Tests is the following.

Les informamos que los exámenes trimestrales de 8o se llevarán a cabo del JUEVES 1 DE

DICIEMBRE AL MARTES 6 DE DICIEMBRE. El horario para los exámenes de 8o es el siguiente

TIME

THURSDAY

1

FRIDAY

2

MONDAY

5

TUESDAY

6

7:15 –8:15

HOMEROOM/

STUDY HALL

HOMEROOM/

STUDY HALL

HOMEROOM/

STUDY HALL

7:15 – 7:30

HOMEROOM/

STUDY HALL

8:15 – 10:15

ENGLISH

LANGUAGE

EFL/ESL

SCIENCE

SPANISH 7:30 – 9:30

MATHS

10:15 – 10:30

RECESS

RECESS

RECESS 9:30 – 9:45

RECESS

10:30 – 10:45 STUDY HALL STUDY HALL SOCIAL STUDIES

PROJECT 9:45 – 11:45

SCIENCE

10:45 – 12:45

MATHS

ENGLISH

LITERATURE

ENGLISH

LANGUAGE

EFL/ESL

11:45 – 12:45

FAREWELL

GATHERING

During this period, classes will begin as usual at 7:30 a.m. and will end at 12:45 p.m. Students must go

home once this schedule is completed. Students are not permitted to remain in areas around the

school after they have completed their exams.

Durante este periodo, todos los exámenes iniciarán a las 7:30a.m. y terminarán a las 12:45 p.m. Los

estudiantes se retirarán a sus hogares después de haber terminado los exámenes y está prohibido que

permanezcan en los predios de la escuela una vez terminados el horario asignado.

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III Term Exams Study Guides

8th Grade 8th grade EFL / ESL

Marian Cox’s Cambridge Checkpoint English 9 (Course book and workbook )

Writing Skills (descriptive, argumentative, persuasive, discursive, personal letter, formal letter, writing review of a book or film and an editorial).

Reading Comprehension (answer multiple choice questions, fill in the blanks and / or structured questions based on the reading exam).

English literature Twelfth night by William Shakespeare

Questionnaires ( six sets of questions ) in notebook

Themes you should be ready to discuss and /or write about: Love, Friendship and Honesty.

8th GRADE MATH 3RD TERM EXAM 2015

Integers, powers and roots Sequence

Operations with decimals and percentages Length, metric unit

Regular polygons Solving angle problems

Isometric drawing rotation and enlarging shapes

Designing data collections sheets, frequency tables, Calculating statistics, back to back stem and leaf. Operations with fractions

Constructing a regular hexagon

Algebraic expressions and formulae

Solving equations, simultaneous equations, inequalities and graph the equation of the line of the form Y = mx +b. identify gradient

Area perimeter and volume. Probability

Interpreting and drawing scatter graph

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SPANISH (SFL) Profesora: Marcia Armas

I. GRAMÁTICA

A. Enunciado, oración, frase y proposición. Págs.196-197. B. Estructura de la oración. Págs. 202-205. C. Oraciones copulativas. Págs.206-207. D. Oraciones activas y pasivas.Págs.208-209 E. Oraciones transitivas.Págs.210-211. F. Oraciones intransitivas. Págs.214 G. Oraciones impersonales. Págs.216-217.

II. LITERATURA Y READACCIÓN.

A. Obra trimestral La casa de Bernarda Alba del autor: Federico García Lorca. 1. Biografía del autor. 2. Contexto histórico, literario (Generación del 27) y geográfico. 3. Características del teatro Lorquiano. 4. Análisis literario del género dramático: personajes, temas simbología, recursos dramáticos, acotaciones, escenografía.

B. Comprensión lectora de texto literario y redacción de textos argumentativos.

III. ORTOGRAFÍA. TEMA DE APLICACIÓN

A. Reglas de acentuación. Páginas 50 y 51. B. Concurrencia vocálica. Páginas 52 y 53. C. Normas de puntuación. Páginas 56 y 57 y los apuntes facilitado por la profesora.

SPANISH SSL Profesora: Aleida Ramos González.

Pretérito perfecto e imperfecto del modo indicativo.

Indefinido Vs imperfecto.

Futuro simple y condicional del indicativo.

Pretérito perfecto y pluscuamperfecto del modo indicativo.

Modo imperativo

Modo subjuntivo (Presente)

Los pronombres: directo e indirecto.

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Formas verbales con pronombres.

Las preposiciones: Usos de por y para

Análisis literario y comprensión lectora

Redacción de textos: narrativo

Book: Cambridge Checkpoint – Course book 9 / Science

Science (Biology): Unit I Plants Pages 6 to 21

-Photosynthesis -Mineral salts for the plants -Plants and water -Flowers

-Pollination -Fertilisation -Fruits

Unit 2 Living things and their environment Pages 22 to 41

-Plant adaptations -Animal adaptations -Ecology -Food webs and energy flow -Decomposers -Populations -Pollution -Habitat destruction -Protecting the environment

Unit 3 Variation and inheritance Pages 42 to 59

-Keys -Variation -Inheritance -More about inheritance -Selective breeding -Natural selection -Natural selection in action -Charles Darwin

Chemistry:

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Unit 4 Material Properties Pages 60 to 69

- The structure of the atom - More about the structure of the atom - Trends in group I - Trends in some groups

Unit 5 Energy changes Pages 70 to 79

-Burning -More exothermic reactions -Endothermic processes -Exothermic or endothermic?

Unit 6 Reactivity Pages 80 to 93

-Metals and their reactions with oxygen -Reactions of metals with water -Reactions of metals with dilute acid. -The reactivity series -Displacement reactions -Using displacement reactions

Unit 7 Salts Pages 94 to 102

-What is a salt? -Preparing a salt using metal and acid. -Metal carbonates and acid -Forming salts by neutralisation

Unit 8 Rates of reaction Pages 104 to 119 -Measuring the rate of reaction -Changes in the rate of reaction -Surface area and the rate of reaction -Temperature and the rate of reaction -Concentration and the rate of reaction -Catalysts

Physics: Unit 9 Forces in action Pages 60 to 69

-The idea of density -Measuring density -Density calculations -Pressure

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-Pressure calculations -Pressure in gases and liquids -The turning effect of a force. - The principle of moments -Calculating moments.

Unit 10 Electricity Pages 140 to 159

- Static electricity - Positive and negative charge - Electrons on the move - Conductors and insulators - Electric current in a circuit - Understanding the electric current - Changing circuits 1 and 2 - Components in parallel

Unit 11 Energy Pages 160 to 175 -How we use energy -Fossil fuels -Renewables and non- renewables -Conduction of heat -Convection -Radiation

-Evaporation

Study from:

Coursebook

Workbook

Notebook

Extra worksheets and practices

Review practices

Practice exams

**Get ready for: Making graphs, Venn diagrams, draw circuits, food chains, food webs and solve practical problems of Physics.