Year 9 Revision List January 2016 Examinations - Belfast …€¦ · The rise of Nazism, the Final Solution ,attacks on the ews, ietrich’s involvement in the plots against Hitler.

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Year 9 Revision List – January 2016

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Year 9

Revision List

January 2016 Examinations



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Maths

Essentially Year 9 pupils are to revise everything covered in chapters 1- 4:

Directed numbers Simple algebra Simplifying expressions Solving equations Decimal places Significant figures Estimation Indices : multiplication/division/using bodmas Probability Fractions adding/subtracting/multiplying/dividing Fractions with bodmas Finding a fraction of an amount Equivalent fractions Greater than/less than Ordering fractions Problems involving fractions Expressing one quantity as a fraction/percentage of another Finding the whole of a quantity Converting fractions/decimals/percentages (revision of year 8 work) Finding a percentage of a quantity Percentage increase Percentage decrease

Use the Review exercises in your text book from ch 1-4



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Technology & Design

Exam format: The examination will be 1 hour long and will consist of short answer

questions to test your knowledge and understanding of the topics listed below. A

number of the questions will also test your drawing skills.

Topics for Revision: Safety

Clocks

MP3 Speakers

Tips for success:

Use the learning intentions listed at the front of each of your booklets as a guide for

your revision.

Remember to bring a pencil, pen, eraser, sharpener, ruler and a selection of colouring

pencils to the exam.

When sketching, try to make your sketches look 3-dimensional and ensure that they are

as large as possible. Practice using isometric paper to draw 3-D shapes. You should also

try to add some colour and \ or shading to your drawings.

The number of marks allocated to each question will be shown on the exam paper. You

should spend more time on questions which have higher marks allocated to them.



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Geography

Population

Population distribution

Population density

Positive and negative factors affecting where we live

Population change (including birth rates, death rates and natural increase)

Factors affecting birth rate and death rate

Population pyramids for developed and developing countries

Migration processes (including push and pull factors)

The effects of migration

Kenya

Kenya’s main features (including location, landscape, people, cities and standard of living)

Kenya’s physical landscapes

Kenya’s climate (including climate graphs)

Life in shanty towns

The Maasai Mara Tribe



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Religious Studies

Topic : Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Revise all notes and handouts. Use the booklets you have been given.

Include :

His early life and home background, with important dates and events.

Know what kind of a family he had, and something about his relatives.

You must know something about the context – Germany, the situation for people after

WW1 and the lead up to WW2.

His life and work as a young man – what influenced him/ what he studied, the work he

did, where he travelled.

Thoroughly revise also:

The rise of Nazism, the Final Solution ,attacks on the Jews, Dietrich’s involvement in the

plots against Hitler.

Know about the Abwehr, the Gestapo, and anti-Semitism

Other plots against Hitler/ Stauffenberg etc.

His personal life/ engagement

His arrest and imprisonment, where he was imprisoned

His death/ where / how/ when/last words



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Biology

Topics to be revised:

You should revise all the material from year 8 and all that you have covered this year,

including:

Sampling

Classification

The animal and plant kingdoms

Keys

Ecology Definitions

Food Chains

Food Webs

Food Pyramids

Human impact on the environment including endangered and non-native species

Importance of biodiversity



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Spanish Revision

You should revise the following topics. Your test will include reading and writing activities. You need to be able to

understand what the words and phrases mean and you should be able to write them accurately.

You will find your vocabulary lists, your handouts and classwork helpful. Your test will take place in class time just after the main exam period in January.

The final date will be confirmed nearer the time.

Topics Checklist

Topic Guidance Vocab Sections

1 Introductions ( e.g. giving and asking names) 1A pg 11 , 1E pg 12

2 Greetings 1A page 11, 1E pg 12

3 Numbers 1-31 1C pg 11, 2C page 11

4 Classroom items 2 A page 13

5 Classroom instructions 1E PAGE 12

6 Days of the week 1D pg 11

7 Months 2C pg 13

8 Dates 2C pg 13

9 Drinks see 11A pg 14

10 Snacks see 11B pg 14

11 Ordering language e.g. quisiera BOX UNDER 11B pg 14

12 Articles e.g. un / una PAGE 6

13 Plurals e.g. una goma, dos gomas PAGE 6



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14. Core questions

1. ¿Cómo te llamas?

2. ¿Cuál es tu apellido?

3. ¿Cuántos años tienes?

4. ¿Cuándo es tu cumpleaños?

Some suggestions for revision

Try the cover / write / check technique as you’ve used with spellings Try writing or typing the words from memory Get someone to test you – remember you need to spell the words too Draw a mindmap in different colours Write the words you find hard to remember onto post-its or cards or just bits of

paper Make an audio recording of the words and phrases and listen to it often. Try some of the sites such as linguascope, español extra or languages online. Practise writing your answers to the questions



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Physics

NB – for Physics exams you will need: Pen, sharp pencil, rubber, ruler, and calculator.

Topics covered in form 1 will also be examined. You should also be able to analyse data

from an unseen topic, e.g. plot graphs with lines of best fit.

Earth and Space

After revision of this topic you should

- know that the planets, Sun and Moon are spherical objects

- be able to explain day and night and how it depends on the rotation of the Earth

- be able to explain the seasons and how they depend on the motion of the Earth around

the Sun

- know the phases of the moon

- know the planets in order of distance from the Sun

- know that the Sun and planets make up the Solar System which is part of a large

collection of other stars (the Milky Way) called a Galaxy

- know that the Universe consists of many galaxies.

Energy

After revision of this topic you should

- know that energy gives an object the ability to make things work or happen know

that energy is measured in joules (J)

- know that energy exists in different forms

- know that energy can be converted from one form to another

- know of examples of devices that change energy

- be able to describe energy changes taking place in different situations

- know what is meant by the law of conservation of energy

- understand that energy is often converted to heat and becomes unusable

- know that the Sun is the main source of the worlds energy (eg fossil fuels)

- know what is meant by renewable and non-renewable sources

- be aware that the use of energy can cause pollution.



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History

Exam will consist of short and medium length answers and one piece of extended

writing.

Topics: Black Slavery

Civil Rights in USA

Renaissance

Music

Year 9 will carry out two common assessment tasks during class time which will go

towards their report.

1. Variation Form performance and composition task

2. Musical Form Test, including all forms covered [Binary, Ternary, Rondo and

Variation Forms], as well as questions on Elements and Notation.

Home Economics

Revision for Home economics will be everything covered in the class books up to page

49.

Art and Design

Year 9 Art and Design are completing a variety of “Common Assessment tasks” in class

and for Homework. There will be no formal revision required.



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French

All vocabulary from Unit 1 on Mahoodle HWs

Habiter + a

Je viens + de

Geographical location

Seaside / country / mountains / suburbs / in town

Size and type of town

Number of inhabitants

Depuis

What there is near your house – gender and plurals

Do you like your town / village and why

Weather

What activities you do in different types of weather – if / when

What you can do – on peut + infinitive

Asking for and giving directions



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English

What should I revise?

Persuasive writing (45%)

You will be asked to plan and complete a piece of persuasive writing.

This should be planned, well-organised and persuasive. You should utilise a number of

strategies to influence your reader to support your views. Such strategies might include:

rhetorical questions,

emotive language,

figurative language,

hyperbole,

the use of pronouns,

listing,

use of three

and juxtaposition.

Check your work carefully to rule out problems in spelling, grammar or punctuation.

Use paragraphs and try to vary your sentence structure.

The exam will last for one hour.

You will also have Controlled Assessments prior to the examination:

a Character Sketch (used to assess Reading 45%)

a Group Discussion (used to assess Speaking and Listening 10%)



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2nd Form Latin - What to Revise for the January Exam

Vocabulary

Vocabulary is the key to success. Revise the lists you have copied at the back of your Language Vocabulary book for Stages 8 & 9, and the January Exam Vocabulary List.

Noun endings or cases

Be able to write out the table below of subject, object and dative endings or cases for the three pattern nouns puella, servus,and mercator along with their meanings.

Group 1 Group 2 Group 3

Sing. Pl. Sing. Pl. Sing. Pl.

Sub puella

girl

puellae

girls

servus

slave

servi

slaves

mercator

merchant

mercatores

merchants

Obj puellam

girl

puellas

girls

servum

slave

servos

slaves

mercatorem

merchant

mercatores

merchants

Dat puellae

to/for the

girl

puellis

to/for the

girls

servo

to/for

the slave

servis

to/for

the slaves

mercatori

to/for the

merchant

mercatoribus

to/for the

merchants

How Nouns Are Used in a Sentence

Know the use of each ending/case in a sentence:

the subject case is used for the subject of the

sentence

e.g. Metella Quinto togam dedit.

the object case is used for the object of the



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verb


the dative case is used for transferring

something from

one person to another


Know exactly what the dative case is used for:

The dative case is used when transferring the object to a person: dat means “gives” in

English.

This transfer can be several different kinds, such as giving, handing over, buying, searching

for, offering:

dat/dabat/dedit, tradit/tradidit, emit/emebat/ēmit, quaerit/quaerebat/quaesivit,

offert/offerebat.

These verbs almost always involve a physical object changing hands.

However other verbs can describe an oral or visual transfer, such as words, or showing

something to somebody: ostendit/ostendit, respondet/respondit.

When you translate the dative case, you may use either “to” or “for” to produce the correct

English translation for the transfer.

e.g. Metella Quinto donum ēmit. Metella bought a gift for Quintus.

However, do not confuse the dative case with moving from one place to another:



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e.g. Metella ad forum ambulavit. Metella walked to the forum:

Think about the way in which “to” is used in each of the sentences above:

In the first sentence, “to Quintus” is transferring an object to a person.

Therefore the person who gets the object is put in the dative case. There is no

separate word

for “to”.

In the second sentence, “to the forum” is movement. Therefore ad is used.

Word order can also help you identify the cases in a sentence. The usual word order is

Subject Dative Object Verb: Caecilius Clementi tunicam dedit. Caecilius gave a tunic to

Clemens.

Adjectives

Know the positive and superlative forms of the adjective, such as

Positive Superlative

laetus happy laetissimus laetissima very happy

iratus angry iratissimus iratissima very angry

and

pulchra beautiful pulcherrima very beautiful



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There are two ways to spell the superlative, or “very” form of the adjective:

-issimus, -issima, or “double –s-“ (very common)

-errimus -errima, or “double –r-“ (less common; for adjectives ending in “r”)

Verbs

Be able to recognize and translate the three verb tenses correctly.

Know the present tense endings “I” –o , “you s.” –s , “he/she/it” –t , and “they” –nt ;

Present tense

Regular verbs Irregular Verb

(ego) porto I carry,am carrying (ego) sum I am

(tu) portas you carry, are carrying (tu) es you are

(servus) portat he/she/it carries, is carrying (servus) est he/she it is, there is

(ancillae) portant they carry, are carrying (ancillae) sunt they are, there are

Remember: the Romans only used ego and tu for emphasis. The endings –o,-m and –s were what

they expected to hear.



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Imperfect tense

Regular verbs Irregular verb

portabat he/she/it was carrying

portabant they were carrying

erat he she is was, there was

erant they were, there were

know the imperfect tense endings –bat, he/she it was –ing, and –bant; they were –ing. Some imperfect tense verbs are translated as “began to”, such as fugiebant.

Perfect tense

know the perfect tense endings –it, he/she/it -ed, and –erunt, they -ed. Know the trigger letters v, x, s and u which commonly precede these endings. Know the most common perfect tense verbs which do not have these trigger letters: fēcit, cēpit, vēnit, vīdit, dedit, bibit, respondit, ostendit. Several of these have a long mark over the first vowel.

Others are tradidit and vendidit.



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Examples of the Perfect tense with v, x, s, u trigger letters:

portavit he/she/it carried

conspexit he/she/it caught sight of

duxit he/she/it led

dixit he/she/it said

discessit he/she/it left

misit he/she/it sent

tacuit he/she/it fell silent

aperuit he/she/it opened

portaverunt they carried

conspexerunt they caught sight of

duxerunt they led

dixerunt they said

discesserunt they left

miserunt * they sent

tacuerunt they fell silent

aperuerunt they opened

*Don’t confuse this verb with the adjective

miser, which means miserable.

Background topics

Stage 8, Two Kinds of Entertainment in the Amphitheatre: the design and structure of the

amphitheatre; who sponsored the games and why; six types of gladiators and what types of

gladiators were paired for fighting, the popularity of gladiators, the decisive moment in the contest,

rewards and retirement; the venatio, or wild animal hunt: the types of animals which fought other

animals, the bestiarius vs. animal, weapon and tactics; why the Pompeians and the Romans enjoyed

these kinds of entertainment. The riot at Pompeii in 59 A.D.: how it started, and why it was so

serious; how the Pompeiians and Regulus were punished. Look at the drawing of the wall painting in

your textbook.



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Stage 9, The Baths: before bathing: preliminary exercise in the palaestra; how the Pompeiians used

these bathing rooms: apodyterium, tepidarium, caldarium, and frigidarium; the order in which they

might have been used; the decoration of the bathing rooms; the strigil, massage and olive oil; how

the water was heated; in what way facilities for men and women were different; the noise from the

baths; other services and activities provided for the people who used the baths; why the Romans

and Pompeians enjoyed the baths.

A revision booklet will be given to you. Work through the booklet as the test is based on it.



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Chemistry

Pupils should use their booklets of notes during revision, along with Common Assessed Homeworks

and end of topic tests. The lists below are for guidance only.

The exam will include work from Year 8 - including Safety and Apparatus, Observations, States of

Matter and Solutions and Separating Substances.

You should see your teacher immediately if you do not have Year 8 booklets.

Year 9 Topics

Elements, Mixtures and Compounds

In this topic pupils should learn:

About the building blocks that make up all substances: elements (definition)

How to recognise the properties of different elements

About the different properties of metals and non-metals

How to use The Periodic Table of Elements which contains each element’s Chemical symbol

The names of Groups of the Periodic Table

How elements can be combined to form many different substances called compounds (definition)

How to name compounds using the –ide and –ate rules

How to recognise when a new compound is formed from its elements

About the differences between compounds and mixtures (definitions)

How mixtures can be separated (Year 8 Revision)

How to construct chemical formulae using the periodic Table and valencies for simple compounds

Acids and Alkalis

In this topic pupils should:

Revise the hazard symbols for laboratory chemicals

Find out about common acids and alkalis in the lab and at home – be able to name some common acids and alkalis

Know what indicators are and explain the difference between litmus and universal indictors



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Use the pH chart and values to identify substances as acids, alkalis or neutral and give an indication of strength.

Learn the different acid reactions and the products that are made: Acid + metal salt + hydrogen

Acid + carbonate salt + water + carbon dioxide

Be able to name salts

Know the tests for hydrogen and carbon dioxide gases.

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