TOPICS FOR THE EXTRAORDINARY EXAM

TOPICS TO STUDY FOR THE EXTRAORDINARY EXAM
1ST MIDDLE SCHOOL
GROUP: M13

Unit 1
-Complete subjects and predicates
- Simple subjects
-Simple predicates
-Compound sentence parts
- Kinds of sentences

UNIT 2
-Singular and plural nouns
-possessive nouns


UNIT 3 PRONOUNS
- What is a pronoun?
- Subject pronouns
- Object pronouns
- Possessive pronouns
-Interrogatives and demonstratives
- Pronoun problems

Unit 4
-Simple enses
- Perfect tenses
-Using verb tenses

Unit 5
-What is an adjective?
-Predicate adjectives
-Other words used as adjectives
-What is an adverb?
-Making comparisons

Unit 6
-What is a preposition?
-Using prepositional phrases.
-Conjunctions
-Interjections

Unit 7
-Subject verb agreement
- compound subjects

Unit 8
-People cultures
-First words and titles
-Places and transportation
- Organizations and other subjects

Unit 9
-Periods and other endmarks
-Commas in sentences
-Commas : dates, addresses and letters
- Punctuating quotations

STUDY GUIDE FOR THE FIFTH BIMONTHLY EXAM

Its very important that you answer this guide, you have to print it and bring it to the english class for Tuesday, June 15th.

Add periods, question marks and exclamation points where necessary in the following paragraph. (7 points)

Have you ever seen or heard about an annual Vermont town meeting Every spring, around maple sugaring time, all the town’s citizens meet in the town hall There they vote on any issue that concerns them, from rats in the town dump to school issues to international problems Even though a town has no responsibility for international relations, citizens express their opinions proudly what a way to practice democracy the town meeting is a grand social occasion, as well People get to meet and greet their neighbors after the long Vermont winter

Insert commas where necessary in the following sentences.( 11 points)

-Nurses today work at hospitals school camps homes and work places.
-Kenny an Australian nurse aroused controversy due to her treatment methods
-Without any medical training she treated victims of polio in the bush country.
-The play is scheduled for December 19 2000 to January 9 2001 but there may be an extension.
-The address of the auditorium is 75 Brinton Street Toledo Ohio


Add quotation marks where necessary in the dialogue below. (7 points)

A scientist has announced that her team will find intelligent life else where in the universe.
Interesting! Says Dr. Potts. I’d like to see how she plans to do this.
That claims Dr. Barbosa is preposterous. I don´t believe she´ll find anything.
Dr. Potts retorts Dr. Barbosa, the universe is large. Can´t you admit that intelligent life might be out there somewhere?
No. I don´t believe in any of these alien or UFO stories Dr. Barbosa replies.
I don´t believe the stories either, but I do believe tha aliens exist concludes Dr. Potts.

Add semicolons and colons where they are needed in the following sentences. (7 points)

- I don’t mind cats, dogs, or fish but she wants to have lizards, snakes , and spiders
- Joan doesn´t study she’s unlikely to do well in math.
- However , Joan is a good athlete she trains hard.
- The dogs get fed at 7 00 A.M. and 6 00 P.M
- My father is from Atlanta, Georgia my mother is from Portland, Maine and I was born in Chicago.


Add dashes and parentheses where they are needed in these sentences.

- Light travels at the rate of 300,000 kilometers per second 186,000 miles per second
- Copernicus as you might know decided that the earth travels around the sun.
- Halley’s comet I’ve never seen it approaches the earth about every 76 years.
- The world´s largest telescope the Keck Telescope sits in a volcano in Hawaii.
- The mass of one black hole my goodness! Is estimated to be around 3.5 billion times that of the sun.


In each sentence below, underline the word that uses the apostrophe incorrectly or should have an apostrophe but does not.Then write the word correctly in the line.- Shes the one who can play difficult piano music. _______________
- It’s a wonder you got any of those problems right. ________________
- I wonder what theyre going to bring ________________
- The authors corrections were not always legible. ________________
- Three boy´s left their books in their lockers. ________________



Use each title given in parentheses in a sentence, punctuating the title correctly.

- ( patriotic song: Yankee Doodle)
_________________________________________________________

- (long musical work by Ludwig Van Beethoven: Fifth Symphony)
_________________________________________________________

- (short story featuring Sherlock Holmes: The speckled Band)
__________________________________________________________

- ( poem from alice in wonderland: Jabberwocky)
__________________________________________________________

- (luhar landing craft: The Eagle)
__________________________________________________________


FROM LITERATURE
Write the definitions for the following words.

- plot _____________________________________________________
-Cause _____________________________________________________
-Effect _____________________________________________________
-Details _____________________________________________________
-Time line _____________________________________________________
- syllable _____________________________________________________
-Main idea _____________________________________________________
-Headings _____________________________________________________
-legends _____________________________________________________
-Homophones _____________________________________________________
-nonfiction _____________________________________________________
author´s bias_____________________________________________________

SPELLING BEE CONTEST

The eliminatories start in every classroom on May 19th to find the 5 students that will represent your group.
After that, on May 24-25, there will be a semi-final contest to find the winner of every grade.
At the end, on May 27, there will be a final contest at the soccer field.

The list of words that are going to be practiced are the following:

1. actually 2. against
3. airplane 4. anything
5. archaeologist 6. army
7. attack 8. attraction
9. audience 10. axle
11. beautiful 12. belong
13. biology 14. border
15. brick 16. businessmen
17. carefully 18. carnivore
19. cemetery 20. century
21. chariot 22. control
23. convict 24. crashes
25. criminals 26. curse
27. destroyed 28. disabling
29. disgrace 30. dwarfs
31. Egyptians 32. emperor
33. enemy 34. equipment
35. examine 36. extinct
37. favor 38. fights
39. finally 40. found
41. gate 42. geology
43. gift 44. gladiator
45. goddess 46. government
47. herbivore 48. heroes
49. infected 50. insect
51. international 52. interurban
53. jail 54. jewels
55. leader 56. microfilm
57. monochrome 58. multitude
59. mummy 60. musician
61. mysterious 62. obey
63. octopus 64. official
65. omnivore 66. opponents
67. outdoors 68. peace
69. politicians 70. polygon
71. quit 72. racing
73. return 74. revenge
75. roots 76. royal
77. scientist 78. sealed
79. shoelace 80. silver
81. slaves 82. soldiers
83. statues 84. stomach
85. submarine 86. suburb
87. suggest 88. sword
89. thermometer 90. tomb
91. treasure 92. tricks
93. Tutankhamen 94. vicious
95. villages 96. volunteers
97. wild 98. wooden
99. workers 100. wrapped

TOPICS FOR THE FIFTH BIMONTHLY EXAM

EVALUATION SYSTEM

EVALUATION SYSTEM
5TH BIMONTHLY
GROUP M13
TEACHER: CLAUDIA RIVERA

EXAMS
100% Reading and listening comprehension exam
100% Grammar and Vocabulary exam
100% Writing exam
100% Oral proficiency exam

EVALUATION
20 % Notebook: all your participations. (Daily signed).
30% Quizzes
20% Workbook (Daily signed)
10% Attitude and punctuality
10% Reading sign from your parents on the Vademecum.
10% homework


Summary and guide for the 5th Bimonthly

SUMMARY FOR THE EXAMFIFTH BIMONTHLY.
GROUP M13.
TEACHER: CLAUDIA RIVERA.

READING AND LISTENING COMPREHENTION
Bridges to literature: Unit 11 and 12.

Unit 11 Bridges to History pages 302- 324
*The Trojan War
* The Roman Games
*King Tut´s Tomb
*The longest cementery in the world.

Unit 12 Reader´s choice pages 332- 370
* Miles
* Helen Keller
*The lindberg kidnapping


GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY

UNIT 9 PUNCTUATION pages 204- 231
* Periods and other end marks
* Commas in sentences
* Commas: dates, adresses and letters
* Semicolons and colons
* Hyphens, Dashes and parentheses
*Apostrophes
*Punctuating titles

WRITING EXAM FOR WEDNESDAY , JUNE 9TH

* Students must write a problem - solution essay.
characteristics: 1 page long
Letter Arial 12
Presentation sheet.
In a folder
Punctual


ORAL PROFICIENCY EXAM
A video of a comercial
I will evaluate fluency, that they are not reading, punctuality, creativity and organization, which means that in the day they have to present their video they have everything set up ( TV, DVD or lap top)

STUDY GUIDE FOR FRIDAY, APRIL 23RD

For the fourth bimonthly exam , you have to print this guide and answer it.

A. In each sentence underline the subject and circle the verb. If the verb agrees with the subject, write correct on the line to the right. If It does not agree, write the correct verb.
1-Jose are searching for leopard frogs. ___________________
2-Mary were looking among the bushes. ___________________
3-They actually stand in the water surface. ____________________
4-How many students is on that bus? ____________________
5-One student have brought a net. ____________________

B. Write the correct form of the given verb. Make it agree with the compound subject.
1-Neither the council members nor the mayor (be) present. ________________
2-Books and videotapes (be) available from the library. ________________
3-Both the council member and the mayor (have) spoken out
On that matter ________________
4-Neither the council members nor the mayor (object) to the
Proposal. ________________
5-Neither the reporter nor the photographer (come) to theses
Meetings. _________________

C. Underline the subject of each sentence and circle the verb that agrees with the subject.
1-Meals on the road ( is, are) a problem.
2-(Does, Do ) this restaurant’s fish sandwiches taste fishy?
3-“off with their heads”, (shouts, shout) the mad queen.
4-Down the river ( rush, rushes) the racing canoes.
5-(Has, Have) the famous architect visited her completed homes?


D. In each sentence underline the indefinite pronoun used as subject. Then find the verb. If the verb agrees with the subject, write CORRECT. If not write the correct verb form.
1-Most of the neighbors was out of town. ____________________
2-Several of the students are named in the article. ____________________
3-All of the costumers was getting impatient. ____________________
4-Has any of my friends called? ____________________
5-One of the quarterbacks have been out sick. ____________________

E. In each sentence underline the verb that agrees in number with the subject.
1-Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (is, are) a novel by Jules Verne.
2-For my brother , physics (has, have) been more interesting than chemistry.
3-Two dollars ( have, has) always been the maximum fine for children’s book.
4-Three eights of the students ( is, are) boys.
5-Paul Breton Girls by the Sea (shows, show) two barefoot girls.

F. Capitalize the words that need to be capitalized in the following sentences.
1-My friend marie plays the French horn in our local orchestra.
2-When aunt Irene visited, we went with her to st. Cyril byzantine Church.
3-“when you say book do you mean only novels? asked Julie
4-Julie replied, “there are books filled with poems, essays and short stories too.”
5-Have you ever heard the song “this land is your land”.
6-Maybe someday I will visit england, france and other countries of europe.
7-In the past people took ships like the queen mary to europe.
8-Students from mitchell middle school are studying the 19th century in their american history class.
9-President monroe is also known for the monroe doctrine, a document that told the powers of europe to keep their hands off the western hemisphere.
10-Where did eve learn to speak portuguese so fluently?

G. Capitalize each letter that should be capitalized in the outline.

Brazil
I.location
II.climate facts.
a.average temperature in summer.
b.average temperature in winter.
c.average temperature precipitation.
III.the people
a.languages
b.religion
c.major cities.

FOR THE READING EXAM , YOU HAVE TO STUDY THE TOPICS FROM THE UNITS WE READ AND ANSWER THE DEFINITIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING WORDS THAT YOU CAN FIND THEM IN YOUR PRACTICE BOOK.

1. Figurative language
2. plot
3. Effect
4. Historical fiction
5. cause
6. Motives
7. speaker
8. Imagery
9. form
10. Theme
11. Idiom
12. Conflict

TOPICS FOR THE FOURTH BIMONTHLY EXAM

EXAM: GRAMMAR
BOOK: LANGUAGE NETWORK
UNIT 7 SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT PAGS 164- 181

- Agreement in number
-Compound subjects
- Phrases between subjects and verbs.
- Indefinite pronouns as subjects.
- Subjects in unusual positions

UNIT 8 CAPITALIZATION pags 184- 201

- People and cultures
- First words and titles
-Places and transportation
- Organizations and other subjects



BOOK : BRIDGES TO LITERATURE

UNIT 9 GAMES WE PLAY pags- 242- 257
- Before the game
-Karate kid
-This team the silver spokes
- The sidewalk racer
- Final score

UNIT 10 FOR THE SAKE OF OTHERS pags. 260- 299
- The gift of the magi
-Allen jay and the underground railroad
- Harriet Tubman
-One grain of rice
-Mountain medicine

HOMEWORK FEBRUARY 2ND TO FEBRUARY 5TH

Monday: no homework
tuesday: Bring the definitions and one sentence with the vocabulary from the book of Bridges to literature page 197
Wednesday: No homework
Thursday: Bring the definitions and one sentence with the vocabulary from the book of Bridges to Literature page 209
Friday: No homework