Grade 8 Sampaguita

MUSIC

Ghan- Described as a membranous percussive instrument.

Avanaddh- Described as a non-membranous percussive instrument but with solid resonators.

Sushir- It also known as blown air.

Tat- It refers to as vina during the old civilization.

Vitat- It described as bowed stringed instruments.

Carnatic Music- It is directed to a Hindu God, which is why it is called “temple music”.

Hindustani Music- It is goes back to Vedic period times around 1000 BC.

Ghazal- Traditional expression of love, separation and loneliness.

Qawwali- It is the devotional song or sacred songs.

Devotional- It is almost entirely vocal.

Secular- It is instruments and voice are used.

Zum Gali Gali- The pioneers referred to in the song were the Jewish settlers who built the new Israel.

Jewish Lyre- Traditionally has 10 strings, but you can still find a variety of Kinnors with 3 to 12 strings
depending on its size and design.

Psalterion- The psaltery is an ancient stringed instrument.

Shofar- Made of mostly male sheep horns and used for religious purposes in Jewish tradition.

Oud- The ancient form of the lute and the guitar.

Goblet- Is a single-head membranophone with a goblet-shaped body.

Darbuk- Is a Middle Eastern percussion instrument.

Toft- The term Bendir means in Turkish language a big hand frame drum, which is known as Duff in Arabic
language.

Avanaddh instrument- daf, dhol and table

Lyrics of Zum Gali Gali

Zum, gali-gali-gali, zum gali-gali-gali
Zum, gali-gali-gali, zum gali-gali-gali,

Hechalutz, lema’an avodah

Avodah lema’an hechalutz
Hechalutz lema’an avodah
Avodah lema’an hechalutz

Arts

Rangoli- The art of making designs or patterns on the walls or the floor of the house using finely ground white
powder along with different colors.

Truck art- It is a brightly colored flamboyant truck painted with images of idealized landscapes, famous,
personalities, flowers and trees.

Diwali- Hindu New Year celebrated every October or November for 3 to 5 days holidays.

Mehndi- Popularly known as HENNA TATTOOS.

India- Diwali, also spelled Divali, one of the major religious festivals.

Sacred space- Mandala is an _____ often a circle which reveals inner truth about you and the world around
you.

Floor covering- A carpet is a textile ______ typically consisting of an upper layer of pile attached to a backing.

Women- Dating back to ancient India, mehndi is still a popular form of body art among

Weaving- It is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at
right angles to form a fabric or cloth.

Pottery- It is the craft of making ceramic material into pots or pottery wares using mud.
Uzbekistan- Was very popular in making printed cloth.

Tajiks- Have been making fabrics, utensils, musical instruments, carpets, furniture, jewelry and many other
things for many centuries.

Carpet weaving- Is an ancient art, and each tribe developed its own distinctive pattern.

Kyrgyz women- Produce a wide range of textiles, mostly from the felt of their sheep.

Shyrdaks- Hand-made carpets or rugs called

Tush kyiz- Large elaborately embroidered wall hangings, made by women to commemorate the marriage of a
son or daughter.

Flat cushion- Are usually made in shadow-pairs. These are seen on every chair, padding the seat.

xxx- Flat cushion called

Pakistan- Is one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of hand-knotted Oriental carpets.

Ghani Khan- Is an artist in Peshawar, Pakistan, who decorates trucks, an established part of Pakistani
transport tradition.

PE

Scrabble- A board game in which players use lettered tiles to create words in a crossword fashion.

Chess- Is only considered a game reserved for kings and the member of the upper classes but nowadays, it
can also be played by common people.

Alfred Musher Butts-Was an American architect, famous for inventing the board game Scrabble in 1938
Jackson heights, New York.

James Brunot- In 1948, a resident of Newtown, Connecticut, and one of the few owners of the original Criss-
Crosswords game.

Rack- is where choosen letters/tiles are placed and where words are formed before putting it on the board.

Crisscross- scrabble originally called.

Tiles- a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in board games.

Count tiles- to ensure there are 100 tiles.

End game- portion of a scrabble game when there are less than seven tiles left to draw from the bag.

Blocking- act of playing a word on a board that stops.

India- where originated Chess.

London Tourney- first international chess tournament.

Adolf Anderssen- won in London Tourney.

Paul Morphy- first great American-born chess player, beat Adolf Anderssen.

1866- year did the first official championship chess tournament happened.

Steinitz- became the world’s first official.

1894- Steinitz hold the title until what year.

Chess board- A square board divided into sixty-four alternating dark and light squares, used for playing chess
or checkers.

Scrabble board- Measures 15 cells wide by 15 cells high, has a total of 225 squares, has special cells for
special points.

HEALTH

Incubation- first stage, when a person is sick.

Prodromal- starts from the onset of non-specific signs and symptoms.

Illness- specific sign and symptoms appear.

Convalescence- last stage of infection, acute symptoms of infection disappear.

Morbidity- condition of being illness, diseased, or unhealthy.

Mortality- condition of being dead.

Communicable diseases- be transmitted from one person to another person.

Emerging diseases- due to newly identified and previously unknown.

Re-emerging diseases- diseases due to the reappearance and increase in number of infections.

DOH- Department of Health

Foot and mouth disease- commonly spread by the feces – to – mouth route and inhalation of virus.

COVID-19 - spread through air droplets from human to human, and potentially through inanimate objects
contaminated with the virus.

Leptospirosis- NOT caused by a virus.

Constipation- NOT a symptom of Meningococcemia.

Morbidity
An example of an acute illness can be flu, a broken arm, or a heart attack.
Chronic illness is more like diabetes, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, or cancer.
It is important to recognize that morbidities may or may not lead to mortality.
Having an Alzheimer diseases.

Mortality
An example, one could have terminal lung cancer, but die of injuries after a road accident.