If you are thinking of coming to SISU Bilingual School, or if you have been offered a place to join G10 in the coming academic year, the following sections will help you prepare to make a successful start to your time with us.
Vocabulary
Building an extensive and sophisticated vocabulary is one of your major goals during your time at SISU Bilingual School.
Part 1: Functional Vocabulary
What you must know!
Each subject that you study at our school uses a set of functional vocabulary; i.e., the words that students and teachers use in order learn about the subject. We can contrast this functional vocabulary with those words that are part of the content of the subject. Here is some of the important functional vocabulary that you will need to know before you join the school.
- Literature
- Novel
- Poem
- Prose
- Compare
- Contrast
- Character
- Infer
- Imply
- Summarize
- Analyze
- Respond
- Evidence
- Opinion
- Physics
- Data
- Density
- Force
- Acceleration
- Unit
- Area
- Coefficient
- Constant
- Body
- Energy
- Elastic
- Gravity
- Inertia
- History
- Explain
- List
- Paraphrase
- Identify
- Define
- Debate
- Discuss
- Interpret
- Perspective
- Primary source
- Secondary
- Criteria
- Framework
- English
- Article
- Title
- Interview
- Express
- Example
- Reason
- Support
- Identify
- Explain
- Prepare
- Underline
- Edit
- Error
- Economics
- Diagram
- Model
- Notes
- Supply
- Demand
- Productivity
- Money
- Income
- Market
- Government
- Cost
- Benefit
- Price
- Psychology
- Case study
- Survey
- Observation
- Random
- Sample
- Experiments
- Norms
- Validity
- Reliability
- Resistance
- Personality
- Synapse
- Medulla
- Calculus
- Add
- Subtract
- Divide
- Multiply
- Difference
- Product
- Dividend
- Quotient
- Numerator
- Denominator
- Plus
- Minus
- Times
- Music
- Key
- Major
- Minor
- Mode
- Articulation
- Slur
- Staccato
- Crescendo
- Phrasing
- Tempo
- Accent
- Duration
- Rhythm