Semester 1 Finals: Supplemental

Hello, students! Today we are going to look at the supplemental exam, which will be about the Frankenstein reader. The supplemental exam will be on Tuesday, 4th October at 11:00 am. Remember to bring your book!

There are four parts to the exam:

• Vocabulary (30 points)
• Characters (30 points)
• Plot (30 points)
• Themes (10 points)

Writing

As well as matching/multiple choice questions, there are questions where you need to write some sentences for your answer. For example:

"Who is the most innocent victim in Frankenstein? Why?" (5 points)

Remember, if the question asks you to write why you think something, you need to give a full answer!

Themes

For the "themes" questions, you'll be given a pair of themes and have to write a paragraph to say how they appear in the reader. For example, if you choose "Love and Hate", you could write about:

• Victor's loving childhood
• Victor and Elizabeth's love for each other
• The fact that Victor didn't love the monster
• How the monster wanted a 'wife' to love him
• Felix and Sophie's relationship
• How the monster and Victor hate each other
• How society hates the monster

You could give quotes and examples to support your argument:

'The monster feels rejected by Victor, and that Victor's failure to love him has made him miserable. For example, on page 20 the monster says: "Why did you create me if you were not ready to love me?". This shows that the monster thinks that Victor is to blame for his own evil actions.'

Revision

To help you prepare for the test, you could look at the M4 SEEK chapter summary cartoons here, look at your practice test, or re-read Frankenstein.

Good luck!

Semester 1 Finals: Core Exam

Hello, students! These are the topics for the final core exam.

• Parts of an airport

• Going to for the future
• Present continuous for the future
• Defining relative clauses (who, which, where, what, etc.)
• Paraphrasing- you'll read a short description and have to guess what it's describing.

e.g. Q: It's a place with lots of shops, restaurants, and a cinema. A: Shopping mall

• Present perfect + yet, just, already (Have you done you your homework yet? Yes, I've just finished)
• Present perfect or past simple? (I've been to China once/I went to China last year)
• Something, anything, nothing
• Parts of a paragraph
• Good and bad topic sentences
• Paragraph writing (15 points) 

There are also some longer writing questions, worth about 5 points each. Try to write in sentences. You don't have to write a paragraph, but you could get more points if you do!

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Here's some work that you can do to prepare for the exam. Remember, apart from the parts of an airport, most of the exam is about grammar:

Textbook

• Revise & Check (p. 34) [already done]
• Grammar Bank (p. 130-135)

Workbook

• Units 3-4 (p. 17-29)

Online  practice

• Units 3-4

Paragraph Writing

• Here is a presentation on the different parts of a paragraph.
• Here is a presentation on how to write a good topic sentence.

Question of the Week

Hello students! This week's question of the week is:

"Did you enjoy the movie Moana? What was your favourite/least favourite part? Why?"

Question of the Week: Parents and Teenagers

Which opinion do you agree with more? Choose one, and say why you agree with it.

“Parents should be nicer to teenagers. It’s not easy for teenagers growing up in 2017.”

OR

“Teenagers should be nicer to their parents and do what they ask. Parents deserve respect.”

Frankenstein "Tweets"

Hello students!

Once you've finished the Frankenstein review cartoons, I'd like you to log in to your Gmail account and send me an email (m4seek@gmail.com) answering these questions in order. The more you can answer, the more magic points you will receive.

1) Try to summarise the story of Frankenstein in less than 140 characters. (You can check how many letters you've written by copying and pasting your answer here)

2) Choose one of these characters, and describe them in 140 characters or less. You could describe their appearance, their personality, and the things they do in the story.

• Victor Frankenstein
• The Monster/The Creature
• Elizabeth

3) Describe the most dramatic/exciting part of the book, again in 140 characters or less. Which characters are involved? Where are they? What happens?

4) Give your opinion on Frankenstein. Did you think that it was a good story? Why, or why not?

Question of the Week: Evil

Greetings students! Here is this week's question of the week:

Who do you think is the more "evil" character: Victor Frankenstein or his monster? Or do you think that actually neither of them are really evil? Explain your answer, and include an example of something the character says or does in the story.