Year 7 Revision topics - Summer Exams 2015
French
Music
Your Summer French exam will begin with a
listening test in class. Your teacher will let you
know when this will take place. There will be a
reading and a writing test on work covered this
year. The information below will help you to revise
essential topics. Your textbook has useful Unit
summaries and the work you have in your exercise
book will also help you to revise.
Section 1: Identifying Instruments of the
Orchestra and general listening
 Orchestral families: brass, strings,
woodwind, percussion
 Listening to instruments www.dsokids.com
 Woodwind family: flute, piccolo, clarinet,
saxophone, oboe, bassoon
 Percussion family: Pitched-timpani (kettle
drum), xylophone (wooden), glockenspiel
(metal), piano. Unpitched-triangle,
cymbals, tambourine, drum, maracas,
wood block.
 String family: Violin 1, violin 2, viola, cello,
double bass. Played arco (with the bow)
OR pizzicato (plucked).
 Brass: trumpet, trombone, French horn,
tuba.
 Terms: tempo=speed.
Allegro=fast (‘lively’)
Andante=medium (‘walking speed’)
Adagio=slow
Listening:
Sports and how popular they are (percentages).
How often someone uses new technologies. Spare
time activities including other members of the
family.
Reading:
A school menu. Matching school subjects with
symbols. Understanding school routines. Matching
questions and answers about school.
Understanding more detailed descriptions about
school likes and dislikes. Understanding a passage
about an ideal school.
Writing:
Filling I a school timetable with subjects. Writing
simple opinions. Writing about your ideal school.
Including information about your school day,
lessons and meals.
Design and Technology
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CAD/CAM
Working with wood-Hardwood/Softwood
Basic wood joints.
Plastics-Thermoplastics/Thermosetting
Plastics.
Joining & shaping Plastics
Working with Plastics
Health and Safety
Sections 2, 3 and 4 are on: note values; pitch
names and history of music. Separate revision
sheets on these topics will be given out in class.
Section 5: Reading music
You will be given a piece of music and asked to
identify certain features. Some features will
include the list of dynamics (volume) below.
< =crescendo (gradually louder)
> =diminuendo (gradually quieter)
p=piano (quiet)
f=forte (loud)
mf=mezzo forte (medium loud)
mp=mezzo piano (medium quiet)
ff=fortissimo (very loud)
pp=pianissimo (very quiet)
English
Comprehension.
Pupils will be given texts to read and Questions to
guide them. Keep reading magazine or news
articles at home.
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Year 7 Revision topics - Summer Exams 2015
History
Science
Section A will be short questions requiring short
sentence answers. These will test your knowledge.
MEASURING AND SCIENTIFIC SKILLS
 Lab rules
 Hazard symbols
 Drawing scientific diagrams and symbols
 The Bunsen burner
 Independent and dependent variables
 Drawing tables, graphs and writing
conclusions
FOOD AND NUTRITION
 7 main food groups
 Why we need these
 Food testing : starch, sugar, fat and
protein
 Balanced diets
 Malnutrition and deficiency diseases
 Energy requirements for different people
 How to measure energy in foods
Section B will have a question to write about at
greater length.
ALL THE QUESTIONS WILL BE ABOUT TOPICS
THAT YOU HAVE STUDIED THIS YEAR.
What topics do I need to revise?
I have given a few page numbers from the
textbook in brackets but often, what you have in
your exercise book will be good to revise from.
You should also use the VLE.
The Norman Conquest
 How did William keep control of England (p.2629) – supporters, introduction of the feudal
system, strict laws, Doomsday Book, castles for
protection and control
Castles
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How did castles change?
Purpose?
Defending a castle
Attacking a castle
Life in Medieval England
 Life in a medieval village. You looked at
evidence about the villages of Wharram Percy
and Elton. (p.32- 39). Can you remember what
the different buildings were called and what
they were used for?
 Villeins and Freemen (p.40-45). What work did
they do and what were the differences
between them? What sort of jobs did women
do?
 How did the life of the poor and the rich differ?
(p.46-47)
 What were the open field and infield-outfield
systems? Where were they found and what
were the differences between them?
 How could you get justice in the Middle Ages?
(p.48-51)
 Why could no one ignore the Church? (p. 5361)
 What problems did travellers face?(p.62-65)
 Life in a medieval town. (p.66 – 71)
 Was the Black Death a disaster? (p.72- 77)
THE WORLD OF MATTER
 3 states of matter and their properties
 Changing states
 Temperature and changes of state
 Properties of different substances
FORCES
 What forces do
 Measuring forces with a force meter
 Friction
 Air resistance
 Magnetism
 Electrostatic forces
 Gravity
 Stretching springs
 Balanced and unbalanced forces
LIFE
 7 life processes
 Structure of plant and animal cells
 Jobs of each part of plant and animal cells
 Jobs of the human skeleton
 Parts of the human skeleton, joints,
tendons and ligaments
 Organs of the human body and their jobs
SEPARATING
 Mixtures
Techniques used to separate mixtures; when and
how they can be used. Including filtering,
evaporating, distillation and chromatography
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Maths
 Multiples, Factors, Primes
 Index Form
 HCFs, LCMs
 Fractions – Equivalent Fractions
 Improper Fractions
 Cancelling Fractions
 Adding/Subtracting Fractions
 Addition/Subtraction
 Multiplication/Division
 Rounding
 Number Patterns
 BIDMAS
 Displaying Data – Bar Charts
Geography
Maths Cont...
 Solids and Volumes
 Different Bases
 Pie Charts
 Mean, Mode, Median, Range
 Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
 Angles
 Triangles & Quadrilaterals
 Parallel lines
 Drawing with instruments
 Symmetry
 Probability
 Areas
 Directed Numbers
RS
Water, Water Everywhere.
Definitions:
Covenant
Monotheism
Polytheism
Revelation
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Describe features of rivers and how rivers
change downstream.
Describe and explain the formation of river
features (waterfall etc.)
Describe and explain the effects and
responses of a river flood.
Characteristics of coastal environments.
Constructive and destructive waves.
Describe and explain the formation of coastal
features (caves, arches, stacks and stumps).
ICT
How computers work:
Input components
Output components
The parts inside the computer – CPU, RAM etc.
Networks
How data is transferred – parallel and series
What is the internet? How does it work?
Binary – converting from Binary to Decimal
Topics 1: What qualities of leadership did
the following people show?
Abraham
Solomon
David
Moses
Topic 2: Students must know the foods
eaten during the Passover meal AND what
part of the Exodus story these foods
symbolise:
Seder
Charoset
Matzo
Wine
Greenery
Bitter herbs
Roasted egg
Lamb shank bone
Art
All pupils have been given an Artists study sheet for their exam a copy of which can be found on the
TGS website.
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