Colegio Gimnasio Campestre San

Sebastián
10th 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 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 write complex sentences using different words.

Science

 You have to know what health, alcoholism, tobacco and AIDS are. Take into account their
consequences.
- Health is the general condition of a person in all aspects. It is also a level of functional and/or metabolic
efficiency of an organism, often implicitly human.

-Alcoholism as a disease and addiction which results in a persistent use of alcohol despite negative
consequences.

-Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. In consumption
it most commonly appears in the forms of smoking, chewing, snuffing, or dipping tobacco, or snus.
-Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a disease of the
human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

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 represents.

Álvaro Uribe Vélez ) was the 58th President of Colombia, from 2002 to 2010. In August 2010 he was
appointed Vice-chairman of the UN panel investigating the Gaza flotilla raid.

Uribe started his political career in his home department of Antioquia. He has held office in the Empresas
Públicas de Medellín and in the Ministry of Labor and in the Civil Aeronautic. Later he held office as the mayor
of Medellín in 1982, then he was Senator between 1986 and 1994 and finally Governor of Antioquia between
1995 and 1997 before he was elected President of Colombia in 2002.

Before his current role in politics Uribe was a lawyer. He studied law at the University of Antioquia and
completed a post-graduate management program atHarvard Extension School. He was awarded the Simón
Bolívar Scholarship of the British Council and was nominated Senior Associate Member at St Antony's
College in the University of Oxford after completing his term in office as the governor of Antioquia in 1998.

In 1976 Uribe was Chief of Assets for the Public Enterprises of Medellín (Empresas Públicas de Medellín). He
served as Secretary General of the Ministry of Labor under Alfonso López Michelsen from 1977 to
1978. During this time he married Lina Moreno, a philosopher fromMedellín. President Julio César
Turbay named him Director of Civil Aviation from 1980 to 1982. He left this position to become Mayor of
Medellín in 1982[2] serving for five months
Senator of Colombia
Uribe was elected one of Antioquia's senators from 1986 to 1990 and again from 1990 to 1994. As senator, he
served as president of the Seventh Commission and he supported laws dealing with reform of pensions, labor
and social security, as well as promotion of administrative careers, cooperative banking, black sugar, and
protection for women. Some of the legislation later drew criticism, in particular that which reduced the state's
responsibility for social security. During his later term he received official and unofficial awards as one of the
"best senators" (1990, 1992 and 1993) and as the senator with the "best legislative initiatives" (1992).
Governor of Antioquia
He was elected governor of the department of Antioquia for the 1995 to 1997 term. During his term, Uribe put
in practice what he termed the model for a communitarian state, where in theory citizens would participate in
the administration's decision making. It was claimed that this model would help improve employment,
education, administrative transparency and public security.

According to statistics provided by the governor's office and contemporary analysts, his governorship would
reduce bureaucracy, create places for school students, strengthen the infrastructure, and the kidnapping rate fell
dramatically. It is claimed that 1,200,000 poor people entered the subsidized health system.

Within his jurisdiction, Governor Uribe openly supported a national program of licensed private security
services that became known as CONVIVIR, which had been created by Decree 356 issued by the Colombian
Defense Ministry in February 1994. The groups quickly became controversial – while some reportedly
improved security in communities and intelligence coordination with the military, their members were accused
of abusing civilians and operated without serious oversight. In 1998, Human Rights Watch stated: "we have
received credible information that indicated that the CONVIVIR groups of the Middle Magdalena and of the
southern Cesar regions were directed by known paramilitaries and had threatened to assassinate Colombians
that were considered as guerrilla sympathizers or which rejected joining the cooperative groups".

After much political debate, in November 1997 the Colombian Constitutional Court ruled that CONVIVIR
members could not gather intelligence information or use military-grade weapons; other restrictions included
more legal supervision. 237 restricted weapons were returned to authorities by the end of 1997. In early 1998,
dozens of groups had their licenses revoked because they did not turn in their weapons or information about
their personnel. Due to these measures, some gradually turned in weapons and phased themselves out. Other
members did not comply and later joined paramilitary groups such as the United Self-Defense Forces of
Colombia (AUC)