Revision topics for November Exams – Middle School
Lower Fourth
Upper Fourth
There will not be a formal exam in this subject;
instead, any work set will vary depending on
teaching groups, in accordance with developing
your ongoing projects. Clear guidance will be
published as required.
The Nature and Variety of Living things
Levels of Organisation and Cell Structure
Biological Molecules
No exam.
Matter & Particles; Elements, Compounds &
Mixtures; Formulae & Equations; Atomic
Structure. (see yellow topic sheets for full details)
Check through preps for common errors and try
to put your teacher’s suggested improvements
into practice. Look at your recent prose
comprehension work and remind yourself of the
key skills – ie, use of quotation, following the
mark scheme and so on.
Topics: mobile phones, internet, social networks
and pros and cons, television viewing habits,
family description, causes of arguments
Grammar: present tense of regular and some
irregular verbs, adjectival position and adjective
agreements, opinion phrases, essay structure
phrases, direct object pronouns
Antarctica
Fundamental Geography. Climate graphs, climate
description and variation across the continent.
Factors affecting climate in Antarctica. The
Antarctic Treaty. Ice Features. Climate change in
Antarctica and potential implications.
Topics: personal language: name, age, where you
live, where you come from.
Alphabet, numbers 0-999, dates, days, months,
countries, colours, classroom objects, school
subjects and opinions about them, time, simple
food and drink.
Grammar: present tense of regular verbs (e.g.
wohnen, kommen, kaufen), slightly irregular
(finden) and irregular verbs (haben, sein, essen).
Definite and indefinite articles in the nominative
and accusative cases (subject and object of
sentence)
Greek to GCSE 1 chapters 1-3, up to page 40, or
as your teacher tells you.
Vocabulary from the first 3 chapters.
Art
Biology
Chemistry
English
French
Geography
German
Greek
The Nature and Variety of Living things
Levels of Organisation and Cell Structure
Biological Molecules and Transport into and out of
the Cell
Animal and Plant Nutrition
Gas exchange in Plants and Animals
Transport in Plants and Animals
Metals; Air, Oxides & Air Pollution (see yellow topic
sheets for full details) PLUS knowledge/understanding
of all L4th work assumed. Your teacher will advise
you which sections of L4th work to best look over.
Reread notes, essays and related feedback on Never
Let Me Go and how to structure the task in which
you compare/contrast an extract from the novel
with an extract from an unseen text. Pay particular
attention to the way Ishiguro develops key
characters and themes.
Topics: going back to school, the French
education system, school subjects, character and
personality, school routine, rules and uniform,
future plans, jobs
Grammar: depuis with present tense, future with
aller, near future, adjective position and agreement,
reflexive verbs, en + present participle, modal verbs
Urbanisation: What is urbanisation? Growth of
cities in the developed and developing world.
Structure of a city and characteristics of urban
zones. Problems in MEDC cities. Strategies to
address housing issues and urban decline. Urban
issues and multiculturalism.
Glaciation: glacial cycles and budget, glacial
processes, weathering, erosional landforms –
cirques, pyramidal peaks and aretes only
Verbs: the past tense (perfect). The correct use of
the past participle and the accompanying use of
“haben” and “sein”. Modal verbs and how they
influence word order in a sentence, reflexive verbs
and a knowledge of reflexive pronouns. Separable
verbs.
Topics: describing a journey in the past, saying
what you want to, would like to, can, should do.
Letter writing on an informal basis, daily routine.
Literature: revise your Verse Set Text as directed by
your literature teacher.
Language: revise all tenses/participles and other
grammar as per Greek to GCSE 1.
Vocabulary: ἀγαθός-μᾶλλον from your GCSE
vocabulary lists (and any other vocabulary as
directed by your language teacher).
The Hanoverians
Causes and course of the French Revolution
The French Revolutionary Wars
History
Oxford Latin Course Book 2, Chapters 24-28.
Vocabulary lists will be issued.
Latin
Index Laws, Standard Form, Algebra, Multiplying
Brackets, Fractions, Angle properties including
Angles in Polygons, numerical work including
LCM, HCF, y=mx+c, mean of grouped data
Mathematics
No exam
Music
Philosophy
Electrostatics. Electrostatic phenomena
explained in terms of the movement of electrons.
Dangers and uses of electrostatic charges
generated in everyday situations. Proof that
current is a flow of charge. Waves. Wave
characteristics and terminology. Accurate
illustrations of, knowledge of factors affecting
and situations involving each of: reflection,
diffraction, refraction. Forces. Mass and weight,
types of forces, effects of forces, Newton’s I Law
Teleological Argument;
Cosmological Argument;
Miracles;
Atheism;
Class notes and textbook, pp. 9-11, 16-21; 52-55.
Units 1-4
Topics: in class, personal details, family, pets,
physical and character descriptions
Grammar: sg/pl, masc/femn, ser, estar, llamarse,
gustar, encantar, encender, cerrar, apagar, tener,
definite and indefinite articles, noun and adjective
agreement
End of WWI and the Peace Treaties
The League of Nations – aims, successes and
failures in the 1920s; the Depression; the failure of
disarmament; the Manchurian Crisis.
Literature: revise your Verse Set Text as directed by
your literature teacher.
Language: revise all grammar met this term and
make sure you know the information on the
grammar placemat.
Vocabulary: revise a/ab-nauta from your GCSE
vocabulary lists (and any other vocabulary as
directed by your language teacher).
Sets 1 & 2
Quadratics. Set theory, proportionality, circle
theorems, 3D shapes, graphs, sectors, area and
volume scale factors, indices
Sets 3 & 4
IGCSE Mathematics Book 1
All of Unit 1and Section 2 Number and Algebra
only
This will be a listening examination based upon the
set works covered in the anthology. Boys should
revise the background of the different topics from
the text book, and structure their notes into
headings of melody, rhythm, texture, tonality,
instrumentation, structure. In addition they should
brush up their general theory and vocab from their
text books
Logic: Understanding and evaluating arguments,
including distinguishing premises and conclusion;
assessing validity and soundness; grouping reasons,
and argument mapping to represent logical
structure.
Density & Pressure (Ch 19 of IGCSE textbook),
Solids Liquids and Gases (Ch 20), Current and
Voltage in Circuits (Ch 9)
Physics
Theology
Spanish
All sub-topics within:
i)
The Life of the Buddha; and
ii)
Dharma.
Use class notes and relevant pages in textbook
(‘Buddhist Beliefs’, pp. 1-27; and ‘Meditation’, pp.
78-82).
Units 2-5-6
Topics: free time, traveling and holidays
Grammar: comparatives, superlatives, noun and
adjective agreement, constructions with gerund,
stem changing and irregular verbs in present,
present continuous, present perfect, voy a +
infinitive, preterite and limited examples of the
imperfect