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 exmenes trimestrales de 8o se llevarn a cabo del JUEVES 1 DE
DICIEMBRE AL MARTES 6 DE DICIEMBRE. El horario para los exmenes de 8o es el siguiente

TIME THURSDAY FRIDAY MONDAY TUESDAY

1 2 5 6

7:15 8:15 7:15 7:30

HOMEROOM/ HOMEROOM/ HOMEROOM/
HOMEROOM/
STUDY HALL STUDY HALL STUDY HALL
STUDY HALL
ENGLISH 7:30 9:30
8:15 10:15 LANGUAGE SCIENCE SPANISH
MATHS
EFL/ESL

10:15 10:30 9:30 9:45

RECESS RECESS RECESS
RECESS

10:30 10:45 STUDY HALL STUDY HALL SOCIAL STUDIES 9:45 11:45
PROJECT
SCIENCE
ENGLISH 11:45 12:45
10:45 12:45 MATHS LITERATURE ENGLISH
FAREWELL
LANGUAGE
GATHERING
EFL/ESL

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 exmenes iniciarn a las 7:30a.m. y terminarn a las 12:45 p.m. Los
estudiantes se retirarn a sus hogares despus de haber terminado los exmenes y est 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 Coxs 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. GRAMTICA

A. Enunciado, oracin, frase y proposicin. Pgs.196-197.

B. Estructura de la oracin. Pgs. 202-205.
C. Oraciones copulativas. Pgs.206-207.
D. Oraciones activas y pasivas.Pgs.208-209
E. Oraciones transitivas.Pgs.210-211.
F. Oraciones intransitivas. Pgs.214
G. Oraciones impersonales. Pgs.216-217.

II. LITERATURA Y READACCIN.

A. Obra trimestral La casa de Bernarda Alba del autor: Federico Garca Lorca.
1. Biografa del autor.
2. Contexto histrico, literario (Generacin del 27) y geogrfico.
3. Caractersticas del teatro Lorquiano.
4. Anlisis literario del gnero dramtico: personajes, temas simbologa, recursos
dramticos, acotaciones, escenografa.

B. Comprensin lectora de texto literario y redaccin de textos argumentativos.

III. ORTOGRAFA. TEMA DE APLICACIN

A. Reglas de acentuacin. Pginas 50 y 51.

B. Concurrencia voclica. Pginas 52 y 53.
C. Normas de puntuacin. Pginas 56 y 57 y los apuntes facilitado por la profesora.

SPANISH SSL
Profesora: Aleida Ramos Gonzlez.

Pretrito perfecto e imperfecto del modo indicativo.

Indefinido Vs imperfecto.
Futuro simple y condicional del indicativo.
Pretrito 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
Anlisis literario y comprensin lectora
Redaccin 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.