THE OXFORD SCHOOL TERM TEST WEEK TERM I -2016 8 th- Grade Term Tests for 8 th grade will take place from MONDAY 30 TH MAY through WEDNESDAY 1 ST JUNE. The schedule for 8 th grade Term Tests is the following. Les informamos que los exámenes trimestrales de 8 o se llevarán a cabo del LUNES 30 DE MAYO AL MIERCOLES 1 DE JUNIO. El horario para los exámenes de 8 o es el siguiente TIME MONDAY 30 TUESDAY 31 WEDNESDAY 1 THURSDAY 2 7:15 8:15 8:15 10:15 ENGLISH LANGUAGE EFL/ESL MATHS SCIENCE 10:15 10:30 10:30 10:45 SOCIAL SCIENCE Project RECESS RECESS 10:45 12:45 SPANISH ENGLISH LITERATURE 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. 1
8 TH GRADE Social Science: I Term Exams Study Guides 8 th Grade Recordar entregar el Proyecto trimestral de Geografía y Cívica asignado por los profesores en el cuadro de tarea. 8 th GRADE ESL 1 and 2: Cambridge Checkpoint English 9: Unit 1 Art, design and fashion pg. 1 Cambridge Checkpoint English 9: Unit 2 Modern living pg. 8 Cambridge Checkpoint English 9: Unit 2 Modern living pg. 16 Cambridge Active Grammar Level 3: Unit 1 Present simple and present continuous pg. 6; Cambridge Active Grammar Level 3: Unit 2 Past simple and last continuous pg. 10; Cambridge Active Grammar Level 3: Unit 7 The passive 1: basic passive forms pg. 30; Cambridge Active Grammar Level 3:Unit 20 Verbs +prepositions; prepositional verbs pg.86. Reading comprehension (students must answer multiple choice questions, fill in the blanks and/or structured questions based on the reading on the exam). Writing comprehension (students must write a narrative from the exam consisting of 200 words). 8 ESL TERM 1 ( T. VILLAREAL) 1. Content of assessed task: Active Grammar and Checkpoint 2. Format of assessment: Written 3. Method of evaluation: Exam 4. Students should refer to: Active Grammar book Units 1, 2, 3 from page 6 to 17 Unit 9 from page 38 to 41 Checkpoint Workbook Unit 2 pages 11, 13 5. Students must study the list of verbs that appears on Active Grammar book page 203 8EFL 1 & 2 The English Language exam will last for 2 hours and will be in three sections. Children should review Active Grammar Chapters 1-17 for the grammar section of the examination. Topics include: - Present simple and present continuous - Past Simple and Past Continuous - Present Perfect/Present Perfect Continuous - All uses of the future tense - Passive Voice - Modal Verbs - Determiners - Noun Phrases There will be a reading comprehension section as well as an essay question on argument writing. 2
8TH ENG LIT Study the book The Giver. Review Note book questions. Study the Charters Traits. Review your point Utopia and Dystopia Practice and review your essay writing skills. 8 LIT ( T.VILLAREAL) 1. Content of assessed task: Book: The Giver by Lois Lowry 2. Format of assessment: Written 3. Method of evaluation: Exam 4. Students should refer to: Book: The Giver from chapter 1 to 23 5. Students must study the list of vocabulary terms provided by the teacher and discussed in class. Besides, they must study the list of characters studied in class. 8 th Grade SCIENCE Unit 1 Plants 1.1 Photosynthesis 1.2 Mineral salts for the plants 1.3 Plants and water 1.4 Flowers 1.5 Pollination 1.6 Fertilisation 1.7 Fruits Unit 2 Living things and their environment 2.1 Plant adaptations 2.2 Animal adaptations 2.3 Ecology 2.4 Food webs and energy flow 2.5 Decomposers 2.6 Populations 2.7 Pollution 2.8 Habitat destructio 2.9 Protecting the environment Unit 3 Variation and inheritance 3.1 Keys 3.2 Variation 3.3 Inheritance 3.4 More about inheritance 3.5 Selective breeding 3.6 Natural selection 3.7 Natural selection in action 3.8 Charles Darwin Study from the coursebook, workbook, notebook, extra worksheets and lab reports. Bring coloring pencils, ruler, pen, pencil, eraser. 3
OCTAVO GRADO SSL Profesora: Aleida Ramos González 1. Acciones progresivas. Estar + gerundio. 2. Futuro perifrástico. 3. Pretérito indefinido. o Verbos regulares o Verbos irregulares. o Usos específicos. o Expresiones de tiempo. 4. Pretérito imperfecto Verbos regulares Verbos irregulares. Usos específicos. Expresiones de tiempo. 5. Indefinido Vs imperfecto. 6. Pronombre directo 7. Pronombres indirectos. 8. Comprensión lectora de textos no literarios y redacción de oraciones OCTAVO GRADO SFL Profesora: Marcia Armas I. GRAMÁTICA A. Comunicación verbal y no verbal. Páginas 8 y 9. B. Símbolos, íconos y señales. Página 10 y 11. C. Registro oral y escrito. Página12 y 13. D. Niveles de la lengua. Páginas 14 y 15. E. Formación de palabras. Páginas 48 y 49. II. LITERATURA A. Novela Roberto por el buen camino autora: Rose Marie Tapia. B. Vocabulario de la novela Roberto por el buen camino. C. Literatura oral y escrita. Páginas 32 y 33. D. Prosa y verso. Páginas 34 y 35. E. Textos narrativos, expositivos y argumentativos. Material suministrado por la profesora. III. ORTOGRAFÍA A. Reglas de acentuación. Páginas 50 y 51. - Agudas - Graves - Esdrújulas B. Concurrencia vocálica. Páginas 52 y 53. -Diptongos -Hiatos -Triptongos C. Usos de las mayúsculas. Páginas 22 y 23. 4
Topics for the Mathematics 8 th grade 1 Unit 1 Integers, powers and roots 7 1.1 Directed Numbers 8 1.2 Square Roots and Cube Roots 10 1.3 Indices 11 1.4 Working with indices 12 Unit 3 Place value, ordering and rounding 31 3.1 Multiplying and dividing decimals mentally 24 3.2 Multiplying and dividing by powers of 10 26 3.3 Rounding 28 3.4 Order of operations 30 Unit 4 Length, mass,capacity and time. 4.1 Solving Problems involving measurements 34 4.2 Solving problems involving average speed 36 4.3 Using compound measures. Unit 5 Shapes 5.1 Regular polygons 42 5.2 More polygons 44 5.3 Solving Angle Problems 45 5