Markethill High School
Summer Examinations 2015
Year 9 Revision Lists
ART and DESIGN
· Nature: Pencil / Paint / pen and ink nature studies, design work leading to a mixed media piece ‘Tree of Life’ (CW,KD,CP.) ‘Leaf painting’ (JM, HC)
· Gustav Klimpt, Henri Rousseau, Bertha McKimpsey.
DRAMA
· Exams will commence the week beginning Monday 25th May for 9CW, 9KD, 9CSP, 9JM, 9HC
· Each pupil will be given their exam script the week beginning April 25th
· Script: ‘And stuff…’ by Peter Dee
· Exam expectations – strong line knowledge, enthusiastic performance skills (fe/v/g/m), costume and props effort as well as a self evaluation task
ENGLISH
Poetry Comprehension:
· Work on poems completed during ‘Relationships Unit’.
Newspaper Report Writing:
· Revise structure and features of newspaper reports:
past tense / facts / order of story /headline / introductory paragraph / direct speech / reported speech / third person.
Non-Literary Comprehension & Film Reviews
· Work completed on non-literary comprehensions & film reviews.
· Use of quotations.
· Fact & opinions.
· Features of film reviews: present tense / characters / plot genre.
· Persuasive techniques used in film reviews / use of adjectives / personal pronouns / informal language / humour.
General
· Basic punctuation: capital letters / full stops / exclamation marks / question marks / correct use of speech marks.
· Spelling of commonly used words.
· Paragraphs
· Neat handwriting and presentation.
FRENCH
Revision list for year 9CW 9 KD 9 CP 9 JM
· All year 9 work
· Places in town
· Directions
· Telling the time
· Daily routine
· School subjects/opinions on subjects
· Meals in France
· Food and drink
· Fruit and vegetables
· Sports
· Musical instruments
· Leisure activities
· Adjectives
· Prepositions à, à la, à l’, aux
· Prepositions to describe where something is devant, entre etc
· Du .dela de l’ des de
· Faire de ,du etc
· Jouer à etc
· Past tense of faire and jouer
· Preparation for writing exam as set
GEOGRAPHY
Plate Tectonics
· Earth Structure – layers inside the earth
· How the earth’s crust is broken up (plates and their name)
· Convection currents
· 4 types of plate boundaries (margins) – explanation and diagrams
· Volcanoes – parts of a volcano
· Hazards associated with volcanoes (pyroclastic flow, lahars, ash clouds lava flows)
· Earthquakes – how earthquakes happen, how earthquakes are measured on 2 scales, consequences of an earthquake (liquefaction and tsunamis, along with road and rail damage, and damage to property)
· 2 earthquake case studies: Japan and Haiti
· How earthquakes can be planned for and predicted
Settlement
· Rural and urban areas
· Settlement sites as a reason for settlement growth – types of site
· Settlement hierarchy and Northern Irish examples
· The link between services and settlement hierarchy; examples of services at each part of the hierarchy
· Urban land-use (The Burgess Model) – the difference between the land-use zones e.g. house types, industry, shops, open space
Rivers
· The water cycle
· The parts of the drainage basin
· How rivers erode – 4 types of erosion
· How rivers transport material – 4 methods
· Deposition
· Waterfall and meander formation
· Causes of flooding (human and physical)
· Effects of flooding on people, property and the environment
HISTORY
1. Why does the Plantation of Ulster matter today?
2. Ulster Plantation in practice
3. Rebellion in 1641
4. Oliver Cromwell
5. What do people think of King William III?
HOME ECONOMICS
Don’t skip breakfast- Why breakfast is important, breakfast tips
Managing resources- five steps to managing resources effectively
Clean Scene– conditions bacteria need to multiply, danger zone, meaning of keywords, cross contamination, personal hygiene, shopping/storing/chilling and cooking food to ensure it is safe to eat, groups who are at risk of food poisoning
Stages of the lifecycle– 5 stages of the lifecycle, examples of social/intellectual/ emotional/ physical needs of young children, suggestions to prevent children from being fussy eaters
The Ethical Consumer– definition, food miles, advantages and disadvantages of organic food, fair-trade, recycling
Vegetarianism– definition, pros and cons of being a vegetarian, different types of vegetarian, vegetarian alternatives.
All spellings on the front of all of the above booklets.
MATHEMATICS
Revision Lists for 9CW, 9KD, 9CP and 9JM
· Angles - including missing angles, parallel lines, corresponding, alternate, vertically opposite, angles in a triangle or quadrilateral, bearings
· Data - including reading from a diagram, mean, median, mode, range, discrete/continuous data, frequency diagrams, scatter graphs and correlation
· Algebra - Simplify expressions, forming an expression, find the value of an expression, expand brackets, factorising
· Using Graphs – real life graphs, travel graphs
· Fractions – 4 rules, equivalent fractions, mixed numbers
· Converting Units – changing between metric and imperial units, conversion graphs
· Prime Factors, LCMs and HCFs – product of prime factors, finding the lowest common multiple and highest common factor
· Ratio and Proportion – simplifying ratios and sharing in a given ratio
· Using Formulae – substitution and using formulae to solve problems
· Measuring – calculating area, perimeter, volume and surface area
· Percentages – equivalences between percentages, decimals and fractions, percentage of a quantity, one quantity as a percentage of another and problems involving percentages
· Symmetry – reflection symmetry (including reflection in x and y lines on a graph) and rotational symmetry
· Equations – solving equations, unknowns on both sides, equations with brackets and using equations to solve problems
· Number Patterns – sequences and nth term of a sequence
· General problem solving questions involving the 4 operations
Revision List for 9HC
Chapter Number / Topic1 / Coordinates
2 / Number
3 / Angles
4 / Displaying Data
6 / Using Variables
13 / Prime Factors, LCMs and HCFs
15 / Ratio
18 / Percentages
19 / Symmetry
20 / Equations
22 / Number Patterns
General number work
MUSIC
v MUSIC FROM NORWAY, FINLAND & RUSSIA:
· look over the material that was covered before Christmas
v MUSIC FROM GERMANY:
· the composer LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN and the music of his Fifth Symphony
· the composer RICHARD WAGNER and ‘The Ride Of the Valkyries’
v MUSIC FROM ENGLAND:
· the composer ARTHUR SULLIVAN and the D’Oyly Carte / Savoy Operas
· the composer EDWARD ELGAR and the ‘Pomp And Circumstance March No. 1’
· the composer GUSTAV HOLST, and ‘Jupiter’ from ‘The Planets’ suite
· background to, and song information concerning, The Beatles
v MUSIC FROM FRANCE:
· the composer GEORGES BIZET and ‘L’Arlèsienne’ Suite
· the musical form of CANON
R.E.
The teachings of Jesus, Saint Patrick, The Miracles of Jesus.
SCIENCE
Pressure & Moments
The Digestive System
Water
Forces
In addition to these topics there will also be questions for which you cannot revise:
· Drawing & interpreting line graphs
· Bar charts
· Tables
· Fair testing
· Comprehensions
Also make sure you can spell and understand the meaning of the key words.
SPANISH
Unit 2
Numbers up to 100
School subjects plus likes and dislikes/opinions on subjects
Asking and telling the time
The school day
The present tense of regular –er verbs
Clubs in school
Unit 3
Hobbies – what you like/don’t like to do in your free time
Making comparisons
Sports you play or do (juego al …/practico el/la …)
Places in town (plus voy al/a la … etc.)
Irregular verb ‘ir’ – ‘to go’
What you spend your free time doing (p.44 Paso el tiempo libre …)
The present continuous tense/gerund
Unit 4
Family members, names and ages
Irregular verbs ‘ser’ and ‘tener’ – ‘to be’ and ‘to have’
Adjectives of character/personality – agreement of adjectives
Pupils also need to know all vocabulary from the first term.
TECHNOLOGY and DESIGN
Material properties – Ductility, Hardness, Rigidity, Toughness, Insulator.
Soldering
Types and forms of metal
Electronic component symbols; Function of resistors; Battery polarity
Types of materials used in projects
Types of motion; Bevel gears and gear systems