Colegio Gimnasio Campestre

San Sebastián
11th Grade. Synthesis 1st Term
Dear students, you should know this information to study for the Synthesis Evaluation
Tests.
Here, there are simple recommendations that you should take into account to study for
the upcoming Final Term tests.

English

• You have to change simple sentences into complex ones.

My cat is on the bed. My cute cat, Frizt, is taking a short nap after its lunch on the
Nathalie's bed, while she is cleaning the bathroom.

• You have to recognize the punctuation marks in a text.

Alice is 17 and she is a shy girl. She only has two friends: Mary, 16, and Bea, 9. She
always sits in the last desk in the classroom and doesn't talk with anybody. The class
leader, Ben, 18 talks with her, but he says that she is so rare.

• You have to recognize the different tenses.

-Steve cuts the meat, Loise prepares the orange juice, Tom washes the dishes and I buy
the dessert. We prepare special dinner every weekend. (Present Simple)

-Karen played very good the piano and the flute, but when she arrived to New York she
tried the electric guitar and forgot the notes in the piano. (Past Simple)

-Alejandro McQueen is working in an important project in the downtown, while Kelly

Smith and Armand Quincy are designing the new magazine. (Present Continuous)

-Carmen Di Stefa was walking at the beach while Danielle Stewart and Andre Deluca
were preparing and incredible party for his birthday (Past Continuous)

-Esther has studied about three hours for the Math test, but she has had that call all her
friends to remember them about the next activity. (Present Perfect)

-Sue and Kevin had walked across the main Avenue in the suburbs in the south and there
never had happened anything wrong (Past Perfect)

• You have to create histories using specific words.

Science

• You have to know the different parts of the ear

Ear canal, pinna, tympanum, malleus, incus, stapes, labyrinth, cochlea, eustachian tube.

• You have to know some concepts about the hearing as: music, sound, noise
Music: it is an art form whose medium is sound. Common elements: pitch, rythm and the
sonic qualities of timbre and texture.

Sound: it is a travelling wave which is an oscillation of pressure trasmitted trough a solid,

liquid or gas. It is composed of frequencies within the range of hearing .

Noise: It means any unwanted sound. It is a perturbation to a wanted singnal. Its is the
opposite of silence.
 • You have to know the different musical genres and its main characteristics.
Social

• You have to know a list of at least twenty Colombian former presidents.

• You have to recognize the main Colombian symbols and know what each of them
represent.

• You have to recognize the most important aspects in the life of Alvaro Uribe Velez
He was born in Medellin in 1952. He is the 39th President of Colombia and currently he is
serving his second term in office.

• You have to know what means TLC

The United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (CTPA) (Tratado de Libre
Comercio entre Colombia y Estados Unidos (TLC)), is a proposed bilateral free trade
agreement between the United States and Colombia. Sometimes called the Colombia
Free Trade Agreement, it was signed on November 22, 2006, by Deputy U.S. Trade
Representative John Veroneau and Colombian Minister of Trade, Industry, and Tourism
Jorge Humberto Botero. CTPA is a comprehensive agreement that will eliminate tariffs
and other barriers to trade in goods and services between the United States and
Colombia.

• You have to know what is reelection

An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an
individual to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which
modern representative democracy operates since the 17th century.

The reelection process consists of the opportunity to the people to choose in a public
office at the same person for a new term.