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
jueves, 29 de abril de 2010
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)
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)
viernes, 16 de abril de 2010
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
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
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