Revision for Week 8 Tests

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 Grade 7 English –Material Covered for test on 2 November 2011

·      Maniac Magee: The whole book.

·       Proper Nouns, Common Nouns, Collective Nouns and Abstract Nouns

Vocabulary:

Faucets            jostled                        ventured            nonchalantly                        lambasting            chuckled           

Thronged            solitary                        rasping                        constellations                        clamped            hoisted

Astonishment            vacant                        asphalt                        scraggly                                    blotches            lingered

Infamous            auditorium            sneered            glared                                    slithered            converged

Scowling            clutched            vacant                        

The Glenelg School of Abu Dhabi

Grade 7 Social Studies –Material Covered for test on 2 November 2011.

• Geography of Medieval Europe Cities, Empires, Islands, Mountains, Rivers

• Life in Medieval Towns Living, conditions, job opportunities, entertainment

• What was life like in medieval European towns?

1. The growth of medieval towns.
2. Guilds
3. Trade and commerce

4. Homes and households


• Vocabulary:

Surplus resident dominate isolated

guilds apprentice Common law

Objectives

• Explain how geographic factors affected the development of towns in medieval Europe.
• The relationship between trade and the growth of medieval towns.
• Daily life in medieval towns
• Clarify word meanings through the use of definitions and examples.

• Read expository text to connect essential ideas to prior knowledge.