Class of 2014

Year 8 the topics that may appear on this year’s Geography exam CAL are listed below. The exam will be a combined exam for Geography and History.

Remember you need to study all the information you were taught in each topic. If you missed any lessons you should copy up the work from a friend.

You can also see revision tips and a reminder of what we studied on the Humanities website;
http://sites.google.com/a/abc-net.edu.sv/abc-humanities/geography/geography-ks3

can be found here

https://sites.google.com/a/abc-net.edu.sv/abc-ks3-science/revision/8th-cal-1-revision

and here

https://sites.google.com/a/abc-net.edu.sv/abc-ks3-science/revision/8th-cal-2-revision-1

The exam will be on CAL 1 and CAL 2 topics only. There are links to revision sites here and some practice questions at the bottom of each page.

Reading comprehension
Note taking
Summary skills
Personal writing
Persuasive / Argumentative writing

Numbers and Proportional Reasoning
1. Multiples, factors and primes.
2. Rules of divisibility.
3. Find the prime factor decomposition of numbers.
4. Use LCM and HCF.
5. Add and subtract fractions by writing them with a common denominator.
6. Multiply and divide and integer by a fraction.
7. Add, subtract, multiply and divide fractions
8. Use the equivalence of F.D.P (fraction – decimal – percentage) to compare proportions, calculate percentages and calculate the result of a percentage increase or decrease.
9. Solve problems involving percentage change.
10. Understand the relationship between ratio and proportion.
11. Reduce a ratio to its simples form.
12. Divide a quantity in a given ratio.
13. Unitary method to solve problems.
14. Extend knowledge of integer powers of 10, multiply and divide by any power of 10.
15. Write numbers in standard form.
16. Round decimals to whole, 1 or 2 decimal places.
17. Round to significant figures (whole numbers and decimals).
18. Understand upper and lower bound (exercises and problems).
Algebra and Sequences
19. Understand the meaning of the words: Equation, Formulae, Identity, and Expression.
20. Simplify linear expression by collecting like terms.
21. Substitute numbers into expressions and formulae.
22. Construct and solve linear equations.
23. Solve linear equations with integer coefficients, unknown in both sides, using brackets and using negatives.
24. Construct and solve linear inequalities in one variable.
25. Represent the solution set on a number line and as an interval.
26. Use squares, positive and negative square roots, and index notation for small integer powers.
27. Use index notation for rational powers and apply index laws (addition of indexes, subtraction of indexes, multiplication of indexes, negative index, zero index, and fractional indexes; multiplication of two single terms – monomial times monomial).
28. Expand the product of two simple linear expressions and simplify the corresponding quadratic expression [multiplication of linear binomials; e.g.: (2x + 3)(x – 5), (a – 2b)(-3a + 4b); and multiplication of special binomials; e.g.: (a + 3)(a + 3), (4x – 7)(4x + 7)]
29. Factorise algebraic expressions (common factor).
30. Add simple algebraic fractions.
31. Generate sequences, begin to use linear expression to describe the nth term.
32. Write an expression for the nth term of an arithmetic sequence.
33. Recognise that equations of the form y = mx + c are straight line graphs.
34. Plot graphs given values for m and c, find m and c given the equation.
35. Investigate the gradients of parallel lines.
36. Link a graphical representation to a simultaneous solution.
37. Solve a pair of simultaneous linear equations by eliminating one variable.
38. Understand and use measures related to speed.
39. Solve problems involving average speed.
40. Interpret graphs arising from real situations – distance time graphs.

Geometry and Mensuration
41. Know the sum of angles at a point, on a straight line and in a triangle.
42. Identify parallel and perpendicular lines.
43. Identify angles inside parallel lines.
44. Solve problems using angles, parallel and intersecting lines, triangles and polygons.
45. Find and use interior and exterior angles of regular polygons.
46. Understand and apply Pythagoras theorem in all cases.
47. Use trigonometry ratios to calculate sides and angles.
48. Use and interpret bearings.
49. Know that congruence means corresponding sides and angles are equal.
50. Definition and use of similarity.
51. Enlarge 2D given a centre and a fractional or negative scale factor.
52. Know translations, reflections, and rotations.
53. Problems about perimeter.

Octavo Grado Contenidos
Libro
Tricolore 2 Unidades
1 y 2 Identificar tiendas y decir lo que venden
Hacer provisiones
Preguntar y decir cuanto cuesta algo
Hablar sobre números, moneda y dinero

Hablar sobre diferentes paíse (Europa)
Hablar sobre medios de transporte
Explicar lo que se va hacer
Explicar cuando se va hacer algo
Describir una ciudad o region y decir lo que se puede hacer
Decir lo que se puede y no se puede hacer
Pedir permiso parea hacer lago
Leer y escribir tarjetas postales Uso del verbo acheter
Uso del verbo vendre otros que terminan en –re
Uso del verbo choisir y otros que terminan en –ir
Decir que no hay algo
Uso de ne…pas de/d’
Decir que ya no hay más de lago
Uso de ne..plus de/d’

Uso de preposiciones con ciudades à y países au, en , aux
Uso del verbo voir, venir,
Uso del verbo aller + infinitivo
Uso del verbo pouvoir + infinitivo

THE FIRST WORLD WAR – using information on the people, places, and events we studied earlier in the year.

THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES – using information on the people involved and decisions made by the peacemakers in Paris in 1919.

THE BUILD-UP TO WORLD WAR II – using information on the people and events of the 1920s and 1930s and how these led to war in 1939.

El examen está estructurado en 4 partes: Parte 1 (Lectura comprensiva), Parte 2 (Gramática y Ortografía); Parte 3 (Literatura) y Parte 4 (Redacción).

TEMARIO – CAL EXAMEN

1- Lectura comprensiva.
• Textos variados.

2- Redacción
• Estilo directo e indirecto en la narración.
• La carta familiar.
• La historieta.
• El resumen.
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3 Gramática
• La oración simple: Clasificación de la oración por su significado (actitud del hablante).
• Identificación del sujeto (en la oración simple).
• Clasificación del sujeto (expreso y tácito).
• Palabras invariables.

4 Literatura
• La versificación: número de sílabas, ley del acento final.
• Licencias poéticas: sinalefa, diéresis, hiato, sinéresis.
• Figuras literarias: Hipérbaton, retruécano, alegoría; dubitación, asíndeton, polisíndeton y apóstrofe.
• Análisis y argumento de las obras: “Cuando Hitler robó el conejo rosa” y “ Las aventuras de Ulises”.

5 Ortografía
• Palabras agudas, graves, esdrújulas.
• Tilde ortográfica y tilde diacrítica.

La información para preparar el examen está en el libro de texto (Lenguaje y Literatura #8, Santillana) y en el cuaderno.

En la semana del 19 al 23 de abril se hará repaso en clase.

Octavo grado esta por terminar y el momento de que los alumnos comiencen a pensar en sus opciones a tomar para 9no y 10mo grado ha llegado.
Durante las próximas tres semanas en Life Skills los alumnos trabajaran en este tema, tomaran un test de habilidades el cual esperamos que les sea de mucho beneficio a la hora de elegir.
No hay necesidad de apresurarse en hacer la elección pues no depende de la hora de llegada, lo que mas importa es que ellos estén seguros de que esas son las materias que les gustan y que cuentan con las destrezas necesarias para poder llevar la materia con éxito.
Quisiera recordarles que es muy importante que ustedes estén abiertos a discutir este tema con sus hijos pues es una decisión muy importante la que van a tomar, pero al final, la decisión es de ellos, no nuestra.
Manténganse pendientes de más información sobre este y otros temas.

8th grade is about to come to the end of the school year and the moment to take IGCSE options has arrived.
Over the next three weeks in Life Skills, our students will be working on this topic; they will take an ability test that we hope will be very helpful when they make they chose their options.
There is no hurry in handing in the form with their choices as the order they hand it in does not make any difference, what matters the most is that they are choosing subjects they like and that they have the required skills to succeed in them.
We would like you to be open to discussion with them as this is a very important decision.
Keep yourself posted for further details on this and other matters.