Dear students: I hope feelings of love, happiness and friendship fill your life and the one of every friend and family member of yours.
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February Evaluation Criteria:
10% Book and Notebook.
10% Classwork, participation.
10% Oral practice.
70% Exam.
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CONTENTS (February)
Unit 5.- Shopping
* Vocabulary: Stores and products
* Grammar: Review on Present perfect
* The use of "How long.:."
* Grammar: Present perfect and simple past
Unit 6.- Shopping
* Vocabulary: Electronic devises
* Grammar. The use of "will" and "be going to"
GUIDE to February test: solutions and study.
TEST GUIDE TO FEBRUARY EXAM
Unit 1.- All about You
* Grammar: Present simple and continuous
* Grammar: Infinitive or gerund after verbs
* Vocabulary: Modifying verbs (adverbs of manner)
Unit 2.- Winning and losing
* Vocabulary: sports
* Grammar: Past simple
* Grammar: Past continuous and simple past
Unit 3.- House and home
* Vocabulary: Urban and rural landscapes
* Grammar: Quantifiers: some, any, much, many, a lot (of), a little, a few
* Grammar: Articles a / an / the
* Grammar: Extreme adjectives.
Unit 4.- LIghts, camera, action
* Vocabulary: Identifying types of films.
* Vocabulary: Learning to use adjectives to describe films.
* Grammar: Comparative and superlative adjectives
* Grammar: Comparative (not) as...as, too, enough
Unit 5.- Shopping
* Grammar: Present perfect
* Grammar: How long + present perfect; use of "for " and "since"
* Grammar: Present perfec t and simple past
* Study all notes and exercises in the notebook.
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CONTENTS (February)
Chapter 4.-Communication and Control.
Section 1.- The Nervous System.
* Nervous System definition and functions
* Central and Peripheral systems
* The neuron (fig. 2, page 81) and its structure:
nucleus, cell body, dendrite, axon, axon terminal
* Concepts of impulse and nerve
* Somatic and Autonomic nervous system
* The brain: cerebrum, cerebellum, medulla
Section 2.- Responding to the Environment.
* Target lexis: Integumentary system, reflex, feedback mechanism, retina, cochlea,
GUIDE to February test: solutions and study.
TEST GUIDE TO FEBRUARY EXAM,
Chapter 1.- Body Organization and Structure
1.- Body Organization.
A) Definition of homeostasis and how to maintaining it
B) The cell parts: nucleus, cytoplasm and cell membrane. (notebook)
C) Definion and examples of the four types of tissue:
epithelial, connective, nervous, muscle.
D) Definition and examples of an organ and organ system.
2.- The Skeletal System.
A) Definition and functions of the skeletal system.
B) How many bones are there in an adult human skeleton? 206
C) Definitions on the
parts of a bone. (fig. 2, page 9)
D) Definition of the three types of joints
E) What are ligaments?
F) The skeletal system injuries and diseases.
3.- The Muscular System.
A) The muscular system definition and main function
B) Definition and examples of the three kinds of muscles: smooth, cardiac, skeletal
C) Flexor and extensor muscles.
D) Two types of exercise to keep muscles healthy: Resistance and aerobics
E) Definion of muscle injuries: strain, tendinitis.
Chapter 2.- Circulation and
Respiration.
1.- The Cardiovascular System.
A) Definition and the three parts: heart, blood and blood vessels.
B) Functions of the cardiovascular system.
C) Two types of circulation: Pulmonary ans systemic
D) Definition of cardiovascular problems: Atherosclerosis, high blood pressure,
heart attack
E) Parts of the heart
2.- Blood.
A) Definition and functions of the blood.
B) The four main components: red blood cells, plasma, platelets, white blood cells.
C) Definition of hemoglobin, pathogen, antibodies
D) The four blood types: definition of antigens, importance and concept of transfusion.
3.- The Lymphatic System.
A) Definition and functions of the lymphatic system.
B) The main organs: Definition and function:
Lymph, lymph nodes, thymus, tonsils, spleen, lymphatic vessels
4.- The Respiratory System.
A) Definition and functions of the respiratory system.
B) The main organs: Definition and function:
Nose, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchus, lungs, diaphragm.
C) Definition of respiration, breathing, cellular respiration.
D) Respiratory disorders: Asthma, Emphysema, and Severe acute respiratory
Syndrome (SARS).
E) Respiratory System diagram (fig. 1, page 44)
Chapter 3.- The Digestive and Urinary Systems.
1.- The Digestive System.
A) Definition and functions of the digestive system, concept of digestion
B) Digestive system diagram (fig. 1, page 58)
C) Definition of digestive system organs: liver, pancreas, gallbladder,
small intestine, large intestine
2.- The Urinary System.
A) Definition and functions of the urinary system
B) Urinary system diagram (fig. 1, page 66)
* Study all notes and questionnaires in the notebook.
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CONTENTS (February)
Unit 5.- Tomorrow's World
* Vocabulary: Software, hardware, accesories
* Grammar: modal verbs for speculations and predictions
* Vocabulary: Two-part nouns
* Grammar: Future perfect and future continuous
* Vocabulary: collocations verb + noun
Unit 6.- Mystery
* Vocabulary: House furniture
* Grammar: Compound nouns
GUIDE to February test: solutions and study.
TEST GUIDE TO FEBRUARY EXAM
Unit 1.- Caught on camera
* Grammar: Present simple and continuous
* Grammar: Dynamic and state verbs followed by infinitives or gerunds
* Vocabulary: Adjective prefixes to make them negative
Unit 2.- Looking back
* Grammar: Past simple, continuous and perfect
* Grammar: "Used to" to refer to past habits
Unit 3.- A good job
* Grammar: Relative pronouns which, who, where, whose, that
* Grammar: Defining and non-defining relative clauses
* Grammar: Question tags
Unit 4.- Body and mind
* Vocabulary: Identifying collocations about body injuries
* Vocabulary: idiomatic expressions including body parts
* Grammar: Present perfect and past simple; time expressions
* Grammar: Present perfect continuous
Unit 5.- Tomorrow's world
* Vocabulary: Software, hardware, accesories
* Grammar: modal verbs for speculations and predictions
* Grammar: First conditional
* Vocabulary: Two-part nouns
* Study all notes and exercises in the notebook.
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CONTENTS (February)
Chapter 4.- Environmental Problems and Solutions.
Section
1.- Environmental Problems.
* Pollution and pollutants:
Garbage, chemicals, high-powered wastes, gases, noise
* Resourse depletion: renewable and nonrenewable resources
* Concepts of exotic species, overpopulation, biodiversity.
Section 2.- Environmental Solutions.
* Concept of conservation
* Reducing, reusing and recycling
* Maintaining biodiversity:
* Protecting species and habitats
* Environmental strategies
* What you can do (measures)
GUIDE to February test: solutions and study.
TEST GUIDE TO FEBRUARY EXAM,
Chapter 1.- Interaction of Living things
1.- Concepts of:
A) Environmental organization
B) Organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere, Ecology.
C) Biotic and abiotic factors, energy
2.- Energy connection
A) Producers
B) Consumers: Carnivore, herbivore, omnivore, scavenger, decomposer
C) Concept of photosynthesis
D) Food chain, food web, energy pyramid
3.- Types of interaction
A) Limiting factors, carrying capacity
B) Definition and examples of: Competition, predation (predator - prey),
symbiosis: mutualism, commensalism, parasitism (parasite - host)
C) Prey adaptations
D) Concept of coevolution
Chapter 2.- Cycles in Nature
1.- Cycles of matter:
A) Definition and elements of water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation)
B) Concepts of runoff and groundwater.
C) Definition of Carbon cycle
D) Concepts of respiration, decomposition, combustion.
E) Definition of Nitrogen cycle
F) Nitrogen fixation
G) % of nitrogen free in the Earth.
Chapter 3.- Land Biomes
1.- Features on land biomes
A) Location, temperature, rainfall, animals and plants, important features of
Deciduous, coniferous and tropical rain forests
Desert
Grassland
Tundra
B) Concepts of "to fall off", evergreen trees, canopy, permafrost
2.- Marine ecosystems
A) 3 ocean temperature zones: Surface, thermocline and deep zones
B) Intertidal, neritic, benthic, oceanic zones
C) Concepts of plankton, estuary, coral reef, sargasso sea, polar ice
3.- Freshwater ecosystems
A) Streams and rivers
B) Ponds and lakes
C) Definition of littoral, open-water and deep-water zones
D) Definition of wetland, marsh and swamp
E) Study marine and freshwater figures.
* Study all notes and questionnaires in the notebook.
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CONTENTS (February)
Chapter 4.- Environmental Problems and Solutions.
Section 1.- Environmental Problems.
* Pollution and pollutants:
Garbage, chemicals, high-powered wastes, gases, noise
* Resourse depletion: renewable and nonrenewable resources
* Concepts of exotic species, overpopulation, biodiversity.
Section 2.- Environmental Solutions.
* Concept of conservation
* Reducing, reusing and recycling
* Maintaining biodiversity:
* Protecting species and habitats
* Environmental strategies
* What you can do (measures)
GUIDE to February test: solutions and study.
TEST GUIDE TO FEBRUARY EXAM,
Chapter 1.- Interaction of Living things
1.- Concepts of:
A) Environmental organization
B) Organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere, Ecology.
C) Biotic and abiotic factors, energy
2.- Energy connection
A) Producers
B) Consumers: Carnivore, herbivore, omnivore, scavenger, decomposer
C) Concept of photosynthesis
D) Food chain, food web, energy pyramid
3.- Types of interaction
A) Limiting factors, carrying capacity
B) Definition and examples of: Competition, predation (predator - prey),
symbiosis: mutualism, commensalism, parasitism (parasite - host)
C) Prey adaptations
D) Concept of coevolution
Chapter 2.- Cycles in Nature
1.- Cycles of matter:
A) Definition and elements of water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation)
B) Concepts of runoff and groundwater.
C) Definition of Carbon cycle
D) Concepts of respiration, decomposition, combustion.
E) Definition of Nitrogen cycle
F) Nitrogen fixation
G) % of nitrogen free in the Earth.
Chapter 3.- Land Biomes
1.- Features on land biomes
A) Location, temperature, rainfall, animals and plants, important features of
Deciduous, coniferous and tropical rain forests
Desert
Grassland
Tundra
B) Concepts of "to fall off", evergreen trees, canopy, permafrost
2.- Marine ecosystems
A) 3 ocean temperature zones: Surface, thermocline and deep zones
B) Intertidal, neritic, benthic, oceanic zones
C) Concepts of plankton, estuary, coral reef, sargasso sea, polar ice
3.- Freshwater ecosystems
A) Streams and rivers
B) Ponds and lakes
C) Definition of littoral, open-water and deep-water zones
D) Definition of wetland, marsh and swamp
E) Study marine and freshwater figures.
* Study all notes and questionnaires in the notebook.
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