UNIT EDUCATIVE ALBOHISPANO HIGH SCHOOL
THEMES FOR THE FIRST TEST / SECOND TERM

LCDA. DIANA MONTERO READING 8 A / B

UNIT 3 COPS AND ROBBERS
LESSON 6 UNUSUAL OCCUPATIONS
· THINK ABOUT IT
· VOCABULARY SKILLS: SUFFIXES
· PREDICTING: YOU´RE WHAT ? A CLOWN
· UNDERSTANDING THE TEXT
· READING SKILLS: IDENTIFYING THE TOPIC

LESSON 7 LIFE ON DEATH ROW
· THINK ABOUT IT
· VOCABULARY SKILLS: GUESSING MEANONG FROM THE CONTEXT
· PREDICTING: PERSONALK DIARY OF DAN CALDWELL
· UNDERSTANDING THE TEXT
· READING SKILLS: UNDERSTANDING THE MAIN IDEA
· WORD REVIEW: SYNONYMS

READING 9 A / B
UNIT 3 MUSIC
LESSON 6 THAT´S OUR CUSTOM
· THINK ABOUT IT
· VOCABULARY SKILLS: ANTONYMS
· PREDICTING: THE PROBLEM WITH GRANDPA
· UNDERSTANDING THE TEXT
· READING SKILLS: INFERRING MEANING

LESSON 7 MUSICAL MEMORIES
· THINK ABOUT IT
· VOCABULARY SKILLS: RECOGNIZING PARTS OF SPEECH
· PREDICTING: THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC
· UNDERSTANDING THE TEXT
· READING SKILLS: UNDERSTANDING THE MAIN IDEA
· WORD REVIEW: USE THE WORDS IN THE BOX TO COMPLETE THIS TEXT
READING 10 A / B

UNIT 3 MYSTERIOUS OF WORLD
LESSON 6 YOUTH CULTURE
· THINK ABOUT IT
· VOCABULARY SKILLS: CONNECTING WORDS
· PREDICTING: GLOBAL YOUTH SERVICE
· UNDERSTANDING THE TEXT
· READING SKILLS: IDENTIFY TEXT ORGANIZATION
· WORD REVIEW : SYNONYMS

LESSON 7 PYRAMIDS AND MUMMY´S CURSE´S CURSE
· THINK ABOUT IT
· VOCABULARY SKILLS: WORDS WITH DIFFERENT MEANING
· PREDICTING: THE MUMMY´S CURSE
· UNDERSTANDING THE TEXT
· READING SKILLS: INFERRING MEANING
· WORD REVIEW: USE THE WORDS IN THE BOX TO COMPLETE THIS TEXT













UNIT EDUCATIVE ALBOHISPANO HIGH SCHOOL
THEMES FOR THE FIRST TEST / SECOND TERM
SCIENCE 8 A / B LCDA. DIANA MONTERO
UNIT 2 THE SOIL AND ITS FEATURES
LESSON 7 ANIMAL CELLS AND TISSUES
WORD MAPS
ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS
TRUE OR FALSE SENTENCES
READ AND CORRECT THE MISTAKES
o UNIT 3 WATER A MEAN OF LIFE
LESSON 1 BIODIVERSITY IN MARINE ENVIRONMENT
WORD MAPS
ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS
TRUE OR FALSE SENTENCES
READ AND CORRECT THE MISTAKES
VOCABULARY
SCIENCE 9 A / B

UNIT 1 THE EARTH A PLANET WITH LIFE
LESSON 7 DIVRSITY OF FLORA AND FAUNA ON GALAPAGOS ISLAND
WORD MAPS
ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS
TRUE OR FALSE SENTENCES
READ AND CORRECT THE MISTAKES
o UNIT 3 WATER A MEAN OF LIFE
LESSON 1 WATER IN DESERT
WORD MAPS
ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS
TRUE OR FALSE SENTENCES
READ AND CORRECT THE MISTAKES

READING EXERCISE 9 A / B LCDA. DIANA MONTERO
LESSON 7 MUSICAL MEMORIES
Jingles
A jingle is a short phrase that a.____________ you of a company`s name or its product
Nike`s “ Just do it “ and Toyota`s” Drive you dreams” are jingles.
Often, a jingle has a b._________________ to make it easier to 1939, when Pepsi made the first radio jingle.
Coca-Cola.” Today, both companies pay top international f.______________ millions of dollars to g._______________ and sing their jingles. Clearly, they h.________________ that the right jingle will help people remember to buy their drinks!

READING EXERCISE 10 A / B LCDA. DIANA MONTERO
LESSON 7 PYRAMIDS AND THE MUMMY´S CURSE
0.02 / 144.75 / 2.3 / 2550 / 2.5 / 229

1.- COMPLETE THE SENTENCES WITH THE CORRECT NUMBER
A. THE GREAT PYRAMID WAS BUILT AROUND THE YEAR …………………..B. C
B. IT IS MADE OF ABOUT ……………..MILLION LIMMESTONE BLOCKS
C. THE AVERAGE WEIGHT OF EACH BLOCK IS ………………………TONS, ALTHOUGH SOME BLOCKS WEIGH SEVENTY TONS.
D. ORIGINALLY ……………………METERS HIGH, IT WAS THE TALLEST STRUCTURE ON ESRTH FOR OVER 430 YEARS
E. EACH SIDE IS ……………..METERS, AND THE SHAPE AND ANGELS ARE MOST PERFECT
2.- VOCABULARY SKILLS: WORDS WITH DIFFERENT MEANING
A.- CENTRAL 1. ESSENTIAL 2.- MIDDLE
B.- DUTY 1. OBLIGATION 2.- PREVIOUS
C.- MEANS 1.- INCOME 2.- TAX
D.- BODY 1.- CORPSE 2.- ORGANIZATION
E.-METHOD 1.- TECHNIQUE 2.- MODE
F.- DRAG 1.- PULL 2.- GO SLOWLY
G.- BLOCK 1.- GROUP OF BUILDINGS 2.- LARGE PIECE OF STONE

READING EXERCISES FOR 8 A /B LCDA DIANA MONTERO
LESSON 5 UNUSUAL OCCUPATIONS
THINK ABOUT IT
1.- WHICH YOUR PARTNER, MATCH EACH JOB WITH A DESCRIPTION
a. Video game developer helps people plan special celebrations
b. Greeting card writer sits and watches a live TV show
c. Party organizer thinks of messages of cards
d. Movie stunt person gives people cards in a casino
e. Blackjack dealer designs fun computer games
f. Seat filler takes part in dangerous action movie scenes

ADD ONE OF THE FOLLOWING SUFFIXING TO EACH WORD. THEN WRITE THE PART OF SPEECH

Able – ful – ly – ment – ness – or – ation – ing – y – ly – ful – ors – ance – ment

a.- respect …………… ………………… e.- excite …….. …………………
b.- different ………….. ……………….. f.- tired ……… …………………
c.- fashion …………… ………………… g.- use ………. …………………
d.- visit ……………… ………………… h.- inform …… ………………….
i.- normal ……………. ………………… j.- health …….. ………………….
k.- interest ………….. ………………….. l.- visit ………. ………………….
m.- excite …………… …………………...n.- perfom …….. …………………

BEFORE YOU READ, GUESS T (true) OR F (false) FOR EACH THESE STATEMENTS
a.- ………… Clowns have to travel a lot as part of their job
b.- ………… They are busy twelve months a year
c.- ………… They wear funny clothes and make people laugh
d.- ………… It´s hard work to be a clown
e.- ………… They have to practice

SCIENCE HOMEWORK FOR 8TH A / B

SCIENCE HOMEWORK 8 A / B LCDA. DIANA MONTERO

To find water underground,

The water level in the hole is the same as the level of the ocean. Of course, the water level here changes by the minute due to the movement of the tides, and as the tide goes up and down, the water level in the hole moves, too. Just as with this hole, the level of the water table is affected by other environmental conditions.

In a way, this hole is like a dug well used to access ground water, albeit saline in this case. But, if this was freshwater, people could grab a bucket an supply themselves with the water they need to live their daily lives. You know that at the beach if you took a bucket and tried to empty this hole, it would refill immediately because the sand is so permeable that water flows easily through it, meaning our "well" is very "high-yielding" (too bad the water is saline). To access freshwater, people have to drill wells deep enough to tap into an aquifer. The well might have to be dozens or thousands of feet deep. But the concept is the same as our well at the beach—access the water in the saturated zone where the voids in the rock are full of water.

Pumping can affect the level of the water table

In an aquifer, the soil and rock is saturated with water. If the aquifer is shallow enough and permeable enough to allow water to move through it at a rapid-enough rate, then people can drill wells into it and withdraw water. The level of the water table can naturally change over time due to changes in weather cycles and precipitation patterns, stream flow and geologic changes, and even human-induced changes, such as the increase in impervious surfaces, such as roads and paved areas, on the landscape.

The pumping of wells can have a great deal of influence on water levels below ground, especially in the vicinity of the well, as this diagram shows. If water is withdrawn from the ground at a faster rate that it is replenished by precipitation infiltration and seepage from streams, then the water table can become lower, resulting in a "cone of depression" around the well. Depending on geologic and hydrologic conditions of the aquifer, the impact on the level of the water table can be short-lived or last for decades, and the water level can fall a small amount or many hundreds of feet. Excessive pumping can lower the water table so much that the wells no longer supply water—they can "go dry."

Groundwater and global water distribution

Groundwater occurs only close to the Earth's surface. There must be space between the rock particles for ground water to occur, and the Earth's material becomes denser with more depth. Essentially, the weight of the rocks above condense the rocks below and squeeze out the open pore spaces deeper in the Earth. That is why ground water can only be found within a few miles of the Earth's surface.

Water in aquifers below the oceans is generally saline, while the water below the land surfaces (where freshwater, which fell as precipitation, infiltrates into the ground) is generally freshwater. There is a stable transition zone that separates saline water and freshwater below ground. It is fortunate for us that the relatively shallow aquifers that people tap with wells contain freshwater, since if we tried to irrigate corn fields with saline water I suspect the stalks would refuse to grow.

SCIENCE HOMEWORK FOR 9TH A / B

SCIENCE HOMEWORK 9 A / B LCDA. DIANA MONTERO

THE DARKEST PLACE IN THE OCEAN: APHOTIC AREA

DIPOSKAN OLEH ROSMANA A.P. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2010

2/3 parts of our world are covered with oceans. But, our's knowledge about the oceans isn't much, especcially about the aphotic area at the depth of the ocean.

Aphotic areas are an extreme area, because it has an extreme water pressure, pH, and there is almost no light. It depth are more than 200 meters, that's why there isn't any light in this area (sunshine can reach the depth only around 200 meters, these areas called as photic areas).

the scientists founds, the aphotic areas have a few floras and faunas that can adapted for these extreme conditions, most of them are carnivorous organisms because these kind of areas almost have no plants. In this area, the plant's role as the producents are replaced by bacteries. This bacteries use some kind ofsulfide particles that burst from some craters into the water. this particles will be transformed by the bacteries with kemosynthetsis. This anabolism process will create many particles that used by the filter-feeder animal as their food.
Many faunas in this area have a weird and unic form like the lanturn fish that has a part of his head which transform into a rod for fishing-liked, this part can be glowed and used like a bait to catch some prey. Most of the faunas that lived in afotic areas can glows, because they have some fluorecent subtances in their body.
The aphotic areas have many food chains which mostly carnivorous. The recidue from the food chains like organics waste will be eaten by the deposit-feeders which mostly from echinoderm phyllum. these organism are the cleaners of the ocean because they make the decompose process faster.
The Characteristic of Aphotic Areas:

• sunlight can't reach this area caused by it's depthness that more than 200 meters
• there's only a few floras in this area
• almost all of the creatures in this area are carnivorous
• many animals in this area have some weirds and unics form
• in this area, the water pressure may make a submarine crush

SCIENCE HOMEWORK FOR 8TH A / B

SCIENCE HOMEWORK 8 A/B LCDA:DIANA MONTERO

WATER IN DESERTS Deserts are fantastic places to explore and make great destinations for hikers, backpackers, mountain bikers and horseback riders who have a yearning for solitude and wild natural beauty. But deserts are what they are because of their scarcity of water, and this lack of easily available drinking water makes desert travel both difficult and dangerous. Those who would travel off the beaten path in desert regions are, of course, well-advised to carry all the drinking water they plan to need for their excursion, but the unexpected can always happen, so it pays to have some knowledge of how to locate water in the event you run out, or get lost or injured and have to outstay your available supply. Most people simply assume there is no water to be found at all in the desert, but in truth, there are only a few extreme deserts in the world that are totally devoid of water. These are places like Death Valley and parts of the Sahara where there is absolutely no vegetation and little if any life. In most other desert and arid mountain regions, there is quite a bit of life, though species are limited and all are well-adapted to surviving in conditions of extreme drought. These deserts all receive some rainfall or snow, though it may be months between such events and there may not be any readily available surface water such as lakes or streams. In such deserts, one way to find water is to dig for it. Water often seeps just beneath the surface, where it is retained by underlying layers of rock and cannot evaporate since it is not exposed to the sun. The key to finding such hidden reservoirs of water is to know where to dig. Dry washes are often located in ravines or hollows between hills or in the bottoms of canyons in mountainous deserts. These washes are streambeds in times of rare rains and can become raging torrents in a flash flood. Water is often found by digging in such dry stream beds. You can make an educated guess as to where to dig by looking for signs of moisture, such as damp sand. If conditions are too dry for this to occur, look for areas along the streambed with the most vegetation and dig adjacent to this greenery. Chances are you’ll find moisture within a couple of feet of the surface if there is much plant life nearby. Water often collects beneath the surface in areas of the streambed where there are sharp bends. Dig near the outside of such bends if there is no indicating greenery anywhere to be found. If you do find water by digging like this, it may not be in large quantities. When you dig down and find wet sand or gravel, keep scooping out this material until water gradually seeps into the hole. If there is not enough water to dip out and drink in a conventional way, you can sponge it up with a shirt or other article of clothing and squeeze it out into your mouth. Another way to get water in the desert with this sponging method is to use cloth like this to mop up dew early in the morning. If there is any vegetation at all, there will usually be dew on it before sunrise, and you can collect surprisingly large quantities by mopping it up and squeezing out the cloth. Some desert vegetation such as certain species of cactus contains a lot of water. The barrel cactus is one example. If you can cut open some of these larger cacti to get to the pulpy inside, you can suck the water out them. Water can also be found in natural rock pockets that are common in arid mountains and hills. Sometimes these natural pools can contain a large quantity of easily obtained surface water. Before drinking such water look for signs of mineral poisoning by checking for signs of animals using the water. If you see lizard, rodent or other animal tracks leading to and from the pool, but don’t see any remains of small animals nearby, chances are the water is okay to drink. The most important thing to remember if you are stranded in a desert without water is to not give up. Don’t die of thirst when salvation may be just beneath your feet or nearby in a hidden rock grotto. If there are animals and plants living in the desert in which you are lost, then there is surely water if you know how to find it.

SCIENCE HOMEWORK FOR 9TH A / B

Biodiversity in the marine environment. 2/08/2010

The marine environment has received much less attention than its terrestrial counterpart in the area of biodiversity. This is surprizing considering that marineevolution has a 2.7 billion year head start over terrestrial environments. This lack of attention probably results from the relatively limited accessibility of the ocean as well as its vast nature (i.e. covers approximately 70% of the earth's surface). Moreover, the previous train of thought depicted the marine environment as an area of low biodiversity and thus, research focused on land. Although an extensive amount of important biodiversity information has been addressed on land, the need for more research in the marine realm is great.

There exists a wealth of biodiversity in marine environments as a consequence of millions of years of evolutionary history. All except one of the presently described phyla (33; Norse, 1993) occur in the ocean while only about half that occur on land. Consequently, marine organisms display a much larger phyletic diversity than those on land (Ray, 1988). Furthermore, 15 phyla are exclusively marine! Ocean creatures contain a diversity of survival strategies not found on land and therefore, they may exhibit a higher functional diversity. Therefore, it is possible that the marine environment has not only a high phyletic diversity but also a great functional diversity. Further research is necessary to better the understanding of how diverse the marine environment actually is.