ENGLISH SECOND TERM TESTS

DATES:

AUGUST

Friday 20th: Oral exams

Monday 23rd: Literature (5º A) / History (5º B)

Tuesday 24th: Reading and Listening comprehension

Wednesday 25th: Literature (5º B) / History (5º A)

Thursday 26th: Use of English and Writing

Friday 27th: Oral exams

TOPICS:

LANGUAGE:

• Present Simple / Present Continuous
• Past Simple / Past Continuous
• Comparative and superlative adjectives
• Adverbs. Comparative adverbs
• Will / Won’t
• May / Might
• First Conditional
• Conditional with Unless
• Question tags
• Vocabulary: Opposites / The Environment

HISTORY:

• Land between two rivers: Locate in a map the Fertile Crescent. Timeline of ancient civilizations. Religions. Sumerian temples. Scribes.
• Babylonia and Assyria: King Hammurabi. Hammurabi’s code. King Nebuchadnezzar. Capitals.
• Legacy of Mesopotamia. Written Code. Writing
• Mediterranean civilizations: Phoenician sea power. Phoenician alphabet. The rise of Israelites. Abraham the leader. From Canaan to Egypt.
• Judaism: Beliefs and effects.


LITERATURE:

*Literary elements

*Fable. Fairy tales. Science Fiction

*Similes and Metaphors