REVIEWER IN ENGLISH 8 – FIRST PERIODICAL TEST

*Filipino, Chinese and Japanese share similar values such as Family oriented, religious and hardworking.
* “Be as Rama, be as Sita” means be a perfect son and husband like Rama and be a faithful wife like Sita.
*The basic truth in life that is found in Ramayana – Evil is always trying to destroy good.
*Sita is described as strong loyal and honest wife to Rama.
*Prosodic features is also known as Suprasegmentals
CONCEPTS TO REMEMBER:
o Culture – behavior passed down within group or society with symbolic meaning or special significance
with origins in the past.
o Traditions – belief shared by the members of a culture.
o Oral Literature – oral narrative communication for both education and entertainment that offers a
window into other cultures.
o Definition – concept that is critically define with examples and additional statements.
o Sanskrit – scholarly or classical language in India
o Rig Veda – collection of 1017 hymns
o Ramayana – famous puranic epic about heroic deeds
o Kalidasa – poet of the play Shakuntala
POINTERS:
1. Stress
2. Conditional Sentences
3. Coordinating Conjunctions
4. Simple, Compound, Complex and Compound – complex sentences
5. Japanese Tea Ceremony (purpose and the three aspects that bring tranquility)
6. Japanese Sports, Drama and Holiday
7. Chinese traditions
8. Additional Chinese and Japanese Culture
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. –Proverbs 3:5

Prepared by Ma’am L J Corpuz

SECOND GRADING REVIEWER IN ENGLISH

FACTS
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 Singapore became the 117 member of the United Nations on September 1965.
 One exemption under the corporate culture of Singapore is “always talk straight and get right to the point.”
 Philippines is an Asian country that embraced the spirituality of the Spanish during the colonial period and surpass it
with the modernity of the Americans.
 In Malaysia, garland making is an integral part of their cultural heritage.
 Thailand is dubbed by the travelers as “City of Angels.”
 Speaking is identifying the sounds of speech and processing them into words.
 There are three parts of a story: Beginning, Middle and End.
CONCEPTS:
 TRADITION – It is known as the passing down of elements of a culture from generation to generation.
 CULTURE – It refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, religions, notions
of time.
 LITERATURE – It is a writing that is excellent in form and packed with meaning. It usually deals with events, emotions
and ideas that are common to all people.
 BELIEF – They are ideas, viewpoints and attitudes of a particular group of society.
 SHORT STORY – A brief imaginative narrative with a single or few characters.
 DRAMA – A story told through characters played by actors.
 PHOTOGRAPH – A Short story that captures a single moment in life.
 POINT OF VIEW – The angle from which the story is told.
POINTERS:
 Makato and the Cowrie Shell and The Taximan’s Story
 Elements of Short story
 Simple, Compound, Complex and Compound – Complex Sentences
 Coordinating Conjunction
The Lord is near all who call out to him. –Psalm 145:18 Prepared by: Ma’am L J
Corpuz

THIRD PERIODICAL TEST REVIEWER IN ENGLISH

Comprehension – it is a skill that the interviewer must possess to know a good deal of knowledge
about the topic of the interview.

Divine Seriousness – it is the contribution of Confucianism and Buddhism to Korean Literature.

Sijo – it refers to a short lyric poem that tells the effect of the scene in the beholder.

Cohesive Devices – cues that help the readers to interpret ideas and carry over a thought from one
sentence to another.

Take note:

 Legends of the Philippines and Korea were orally transmitted first before they were
written.
 To deal with two to three difficult words in any story you need to define the words
through context clues.
 Scripture of Chronicle is considered a prose literature in Myanmar written by monks,
courtiers and court poetesses.
 Kernel sentence is also known as simple sentence.

Questions to ponder:

 What is portrayed in the sibling relationship of the Tale of the Woodcutter and the
Tiger?
 What belief is shown in the poem “Tree of Unhappiness?
 What does this sentence mean: Question should be open – ended?

Additional Pointers:

 Please review Parallelism

 Aung San Suu Kyi
 Adjective Complements: Noun Clause, Prepositional Phrase
 The vocabularies that we reviewed

Remember: Do not evaluate circumstances with worldly eyes.

2 Corinthians 5:7
For we live by faith, not by sight.
Review Well 