It's Time to Give your Best! / Es Tiempo de Dar lo Mejor!

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Evaluation Criteria November: 

20%  Book and Notebook.
30%  Participations. 
20%  Classwork, Oral Practice.
30%  November Project 

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Contenidos por Materia, Grado y Nivel

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Unit 3.- House and Home

* Vocabulary: Urban and rural landscapes

* Vocabulary: Prepositions of movement (across, over, past, through, along)

* Grammar: Quantifiers some, any, much, many, a lot of, a little, a few 

* Word skill: Fox hunting vocabulary

* Grammar: Articles a-an-the
* Vocabulary: Farm lexis

* Vocabulary: Holiday activities

* Grammar: Extreme adjectives

Project: A written essay about their favorite holiday and what they do.

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Chapter 2.- Circulation and Respiration.

Section 1.- The Cardiovascular System.

* Definitions and functions of the cardiovascular system

* The three parts: Heart, blood and blood vessels

* The heart: Parts and how it works

* Arteries, capillaries and veins

* Pulmonary and Sistemic circulation

* Problems: Atherosclerosis, high blood pressure, heart attack

Project: A written essay about blood (composition and functions)

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Unit 4.- Family Matters

* Pre reading: Create a family tree with names within a drawing

* Vocabulary: Antonyms and part of speech 
* Reading: The problems with grandpa
   - Exercises for reading comprehension 

* Reading skill: Inferring meaning from context

* Grammar: Dependent prepositions

Unit 5.- Stars of Music

* Discussion: Qualities for being a successful musician
* Reading 1: Vanessa Mae, violinist 
* Vocabulary: Words with different meaning

Project: A speech about a musical icon (singer or band)

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Unit 3.- A Good Job

* Pre task: Brainstorming words related to jobs, money, work time, etc
* Vocabulary: Working world 

* Grammar: Defining relative clauses

* Grammar: Non defining relative clauses

* Vocabulary: Jobs according to  the work place

* Grammar: Tag questions

Project: A speech presenting an English speaking country, in teams.

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Chapter 2.- Cycles in Nature

Section 1.- The Cycles of Matter

* Questionnaire on
 - Water Cycle: processes

 - Carbon Cycle: processes

 - Nitrogen Cycle: natural and fixation

Section 2.- Ecologycal Succession

* Primary succession
 - pioneer species
* Secondary succession
* Mature communities
 - climax species, biodiversity

Chapter 3.- The Earth's Ecosystems

* Tropical and deciduoud forrest, grassland, desert, tundra

Project: A speech about Land Biomes

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Let's get Ready for the First Exam! / Preparémonos para el Primer Examen!

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Evaluation Criteria October: 

15%  Book and Notebook.
15%  Participations. 
20%  Classwork, Oral Practice.
50%  October Exam 

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Bitácora de Contenidos Octubre, por Materia, Grado y Nivel

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Unit 2.- Winning and Losing

* Vocabulary: Sports, names and icon recognition

* Vocabulary: Collocations of sports with play, go, and do

* Grammar: Past simple in affirmative, negative and questions

* Grammar: Past continuous in affirmative, negative and questions

* Word skill: A chart with verbs in the target tenses
* Vocabulary: Free time activities

* Guide to October test, solving and extra practice

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Chapter 1.- Body organization and structure.

Section 3.- The Muscular System.

* Definitions and functions of the muscular system

* The three kinds of muscles and how they are found

* Muscles and movement; muscles work in pairs

* Muscle injuries: Fracture, dislocation, sprain, osteoporosis, arthiritis

Section 4.- The Integumentary System.

* Definition of the integumentary system
* Functions and structure of the skin

* Hair and nail growth

* Skin injuries: Acne and skin cancer

* Guide to October test, solving and extra practice

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Unit 3.- Love Around the World

* Discussion: What's your opinion on dating?

* Vocabulary: Meaning from context to complete a text 
* Vocabulary: Understanding lexis to predict reding article
* Reading: A letter from Luisa to Suzie
   - Exercises for reading comprehension 

* Reading skill: Understanding text with only main words

* Grammar: Comparatives

* Guide to October test, solving and extra practice

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Unit 2.- Looking Back

* Vocabulary: Feelings and collocations with "about-with-of" 

* Grammar: Past tense contrast (how to use it)

* Grammar: Used to referring to past habits

* Vocabulary: Verbs that express mental actions

* Grammar: Phrasal verbs in context

* Guide to October test, solving and extra practice

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Chapter 1.- Interaction of Living Things.

Section 3.- Types of Interaction

* Concept of limiting factors, carrying capacity, coevolution

* Three interactions: Competition, Predation (predator-Prey) and
   Symbiosis (Mulualism, Commensalism, Parasitism [parasite-host])

Chapter 2.- Cycles in Nature

Section 1.- The Cycles of Matter

Project: Team work on cycle oral presentation

* Water Cycle: Evaporation, condensation, precipitation

* Definition on runoff, groundwater, transpiration

* Carbon Cycle: Decomposition and combustion

* Definition on organic molecules, photosynthesis, respiration

* Nitrogen Cycle: Nitrogen in the air  and in soil

* Definition on nitrogen fixation

* Guide to October test, solving and extra practice

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