EXAM CAL March 2011: Topics

Grade 7 2010-11: Exam Cal Topics

Art
El examen se basa en los procesos de diseño y en los trabajos practicos de toda la cal2

English

• Written Story Review - writing about a book you have read. Looking for 1) content 2) structure 3) language 4) spelling/punctuation/grammar
• Comprehension Skills - Reading and showing understanding through a written response.
• Informal Letter
• Formal Letter
• Character Analysis
• Summary and Note Taking
• Creative Writing

French
• Hablar sobre gustos y preferencias
• Uso del verbo avoir en singular
• verbos regulares -er. en presente. Forma afirmativa y negativa.
• uso del diccionario, Hablar de los amidos, pasa- tiempos
• Dias festivos, ocasiones especiales, aniversarion. Dias de la semana y meses del año
• Hablar de las mascotas
• La escuela, materias, horarios, objetos. Explicar problemas y dar excusas
• Verbo aimer, Decir y pregunatr la hora, verbo de los 3 grupos (-er,-ir, -re)
• la escuela, materias, horarios, objetos. Explicar problemas y dar excusas
• Verbo aimer, Decir y pregunatr la hora, verbo de los 3 grupos (-er,-ir, -re)
• Pronunciacion de la é, acento agudo y ez
• La vida escolar en Francia
• Tiempo pasado compuesto,

Geography
• Structure of the Earth
• Convection Currents
• Plates
• Plate Boundaries (destructive, constructive, collision, conservative)
• Bam Earthqauke
• Montserrat Volcano
• Living Near earthquakes and volcanoes
• Locating Settlements (site and situation)
• Functions and hierarchies
• San Salvador growth
• Urban growth/sprawl
• Urban Problems
• Greenfield and Brownfield sites
• Relocation of shopping (CBD to malls)
• Sustainable Living
• Protecting Rural Areas
• Hydrological Cycle
• Drainage Basins
• Hydrographs
• Erosion and transportation

History
• El Salvador Project: Christopher Columbus & the Conquistadors
• Islamic World: life in the desert
• Islamic World: borrowed words & numbers
• Life of the Prophet Muhammad*
• Islamic art & architecture
• The growth of the Islamic Empire
• Economics: Life in an Islamic city & trade
• Economics: Trade in the Islamic Empire
• Islamic medicine
• The Crusades

ICT: No exam

Maths

7.1.1 Numbers
Add, subtract, multiply and divide positive and negative numbers
Multiples and factors
HCF and LCM
Prime factors of any number in index notation (prime tree)
Sequences
Nth term

7.1.2 Dimensions
Area of a triangle, a parallelogram, a trapezium and compound shapes.
Name and properties of 2D and 3D shapes.
Volume and surface area
Units of measurements: length, area, volume, capacity, mass, time

7.1.3 Algebra
Simplify linear expressions
Expand brackets
Substitution
Construct and solve linear equations,

7.2.1. Equation of the line
Plot coordinated
Recognise the equation in the form y=mx+c
Understand the inequality signs.
Construct and solve linear equations including those with unknown in both sides, e.g. 4x-2=2x+6

7.2.2. Angles
Angles around a point
Angles in parallel lines
Vertically opposite angles
Angles in quadrilaterals and triangles

7.2.3 Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
Recurring decimals
Common equivalences between fraction, decimals and percentages.
Ordering fractions and decimals.
Multiply, divide, add and subtract decimal numbers
Percentage of amounts
Percentage increase or decrease
Give a number as a percentage of another
Ratio and proportion

7.2.4 Multiplicative Reasoning
Order of operation.
Rounding
Justify estimates and approximations

Music
• World music (South & West Africa, South America, Caribbean,)
• recognition of instruments and styles from each world area
• recognition of 12 bar-blues and magic changes riffs both aurally and written
• theory: note pitches (ABCDEFG) and lengths (whole, ½ etc), triads (3-note chords), harmony (able to compose tune to fit given chords). Treble clef and bass clef, aural recognition of instruments of orchestra and standard non-orchestral instruments

PE: No exam

Science
• C4 - Rocks and the rock cycle
• P4 - Heat and Sound
• B4 - Sorting and identifying
• Data presentations skills (tables and graphs)
• C5 - Metal and Metal reactivity
• P5 - Energy and Electricity
• B5 – Health
• Concluding and evaluating skills
• C6 - Chemical Reactions (not whole topic)

Spanish
• Clasificación de las palabras según el acento
• El nombre: género y número
• Descripción: prosopografía y retrato
• El párrafo argumentativo
• Partes de la oración:sujeto y predicado
• Figuras Literarias: Símil, Prosopopeya y Epíteto
• Figuras Literarias: concatenación, asíndeton, metáfora polisíndeton, símil, prosopopeya y epíteto.
• Poesía: métrica, rima y fórmula
• Figuras Literarias: concatenación, asíndeton, metáfora y polisíndeton
• Análisis poético
• Uso de C y S
• la Narración: El cuento
• El adjetivo