General Education Booster Part 1
General Education Booster Part 1
General Education Booster Part 1
Borrowed Phrases (words na hindi nagagamit sa English language, either French or Latin):
ENGLISH
◦ alter ego - close and inseparable friend, someone who knows you very well
Sample Question:
- trusted friend, other self
How is original and primary forest commonly referred to?
◦ soiree - evening party
a. Green forest
b. Rain forest ◦ connoisseur - expert judge in matters of taste (e.g. wine tasting)
c. Virgin forest ◦ chauffeur - driver
d. Verdant forest - luscious green ◦ mesdames - plural of madame
original and primary forest - untouched ◦ renaissance - rebirth
◦ caveat emptor - let the buyer beware, let the buyer decide
vocabulary: ◦ ad nauseam - sickening to an excessive degree, nausea, nakakasuka
◦ composure - aplomb, calmness, relax ◦ coup de grace - death blow, form of penalty/punishment
◦ loquacious - verbose, talkative
◦ pulchritude - beauty, loveliness Idiomatic Expressions (phrases that has beyond meaning):
◦ abase - demoted, bumaba ang rank ◦ red letter day - holiday, special day
◦ despotic - cruel ◦ a sixes and seven - state of confusion
◦ dexterity - something to do with your hand, manual skill, manipulation of the hand ◦ green thumb - good at gardening
◦ amorphous - shapeless ◦ finger in the pie - make an active part in something
◦ penchant - fondness, hilig ◦ white lies - excusable, lies that has valid reason
◦ transmuted - change ◦ first rate - excellent
◦ rancor - bitterness ◦ making both ends meet - limited
◦ mundane - ordinary ◦ man’s inhumanity to man - cruel behavior
◦ profanity - obscenity, kalaswaan ◦ a snowball chance in hell - no chance at all
◦ apocalyptic - prophetic ◦ the face that launched a thousand ships - Helen of Troy
◦ apocalypse - prophecy
◦ impertinent - irrelevant literature - derives from the word “litera“ which means letters, could be presented orally,
◦ voracious - very eager written or visual
main types:
◦ conflagration - large fire
◦ prose - formal approach, kailangan tama ang grammar, follows strict structure of grammar kasi
◦ queue - line of people waiting for something
kapag hindi, mag-iiba ang meaning
◦ euphoria - state/sense of well-being, sobrang saya
examples of prose:
◦ erudite - learned, intelligent, smart
◦ novel - mahabang story divided into chapters
◦ acapella - w/o accompaniment, instruments
◦ short story - you can read it in just one setting, has one plot
◦ play - mahaba, divided into acts or scenes
Tips for vocabulary:
1. Hanapin ang unfamiliar na word, that is the correct answer. ◦ legends - story that talks the origin, kuwento ng pinagmulan, alamat
2. Maghanap ng word na antonyms, automatically, one of them is the correct answer. ◦ myth - paniniwala sa mga gods and goddesses, mythology
3. Add one out. Do the positive, negative. Kung ano naiiba, that is the correct answer. ◦ fables - stories of animals, teaches moral lesson
◦ folktales - traditional narrative na orally pass from one generation to the next
- kwentong-bayan
◦ anecdotes - story of a real person’s life however it has only one incident/pangyayari
(example: Ang Gamu Gamo at Ang Gasera sa buhay ni Jose Rizal)
◦ biography - a complete story of real person’s life ◦ John Milton - Paradise Lost
- kinuwento ang buong pangyayari ng buhay mo ◦ Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince (rose is his special flower)
(example: Rizal’s Life Writings) ◦ Edgar Allan Poe - Annabel Lee
◦ news - current events, latest happenings, could be national or local - shows grief over the death of the woman that he loved
◦ oration - public speech, speech delivered in front of an audience ◦ Guy de Maupassant - The Necklace
◦ essay - giving your idea or opinion - story of social climbing
◦ poetry - artistic and pagkasulat, okay lang mali-mali ang grammar ◦ Dante Alighieri - Purgatory (a part of Divine Comedy)
- malaya ang writer, walang sinusunod na strict structure of grammar kasi ang mahalaga, parts:
ma-express ng writer ang kaniyang feelings, masarap basahin, maganda pakinggan ◦ Paradiso - story of heaven
types of poetry: ◦ Porgatorio - story of purgatory
◦ narrative - tells a story ◦ Inferno - story of hell
◦ lyric - intended to the song ◦ Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat (grasp pleasure while you can)
◦ dramatic - intended to be performed - eat, drink and to marry for tomorrow you will die
◦ Rabindranath Tagore - Gitanjali (his winning piece when he won the novel price for literature)
Master Works of the World (World Literature): - talks about the harmony of life, love, faith in humanity
◦ Christopher Marlowe - father of English tragedy (drama na ang ending ay sad) ◦ Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom’s Cabin
◦ William Shakespeare - greatest English writer
- greatest sonnet writer Works of Shakespeare:
- Bard of Avon ◦ Macbeth - overwhelming ambition for power is the cause of downfall of man
◦ Geoffrey Chaucer - father of English literature ◦ Hamlet - To be, or not to be (opening statement of Hamlet’s soliloquy)
- Morning Star of English literature ◦ Merchant of Venice - mercy shall be spontaneous and freely given
◦ Edgar Allan Poe - father of horror stories ◦ Romeo and Juliet - story of warring families
- father of detective stories
- ang story niya mga mystery Phantom of the Opera - not a work of Shakespeare
◦ Guy de Maupassant - foremost French short story writer
◦ Homer - mythical geographer that was recognized due to his vivid description and Famous Writings that has impact in our World Literature:
geographical landmarks and the people encountered by his hero Ulysses ◦ didactic - literary piece that has moral lessons
- isa lang siyang myth, hindi proven ang kaniyang existence - purpose is to entertain but at the same time teaches a moral lesson
- Iliad and Odyssey (example: fables)
◦ The Psalms of King David - greatest lyric poem poem of the world ◦ epistolary - exchange of letters, journals, diaries
◦ Rabindranath Tagore - Indian national poet (example: Urbana at Feliza by Padre Modesto de Castro)
- first awardee of the novel price for literature - all about kabutihan ng asal
◦ Kalidasa - greatest Sanskrit poet, Indian Shakespeare/writer ◦ Elizabethan - era of Shakespeare
◦ Virgin Queen - ang tawag ni Queen Elizabeth
influential books of the world - bases of religions and history, nagpalaya sa mga colonizers ◦ Epic of Gilgamesh - first epic ever written in the world
Romeo and Juliet - not included in the 12 most influential books of the world ◦ Mahabharata - longest epic of India
◦ Nibelungenlied - medieval German epic
Authors of the Books: ◦ Panchatantra - collection of Indian fables
◦ Louisa May Alcott - wrote Little Women (true story ng magkakapatid) ◦ Aesopes - world’s famous collection of fables
◦ Abraham Lincoln - delivered Gettysburg Address
◦ Boris Pasternak - Doctor Zhivago (Russian literature) Systems of Writings:
- talks about totalitarianism rule in Russia ◦ cuneiform - Sumerians in Mesopotamia ◦ calligraphy - Chinese
◦ Nathaniel Hawthorne - Scarlet Letter ◦ hieroglyphs - Egyptians ◦ alphabet - Greek
◦ J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter - draw pictures sa walls or pyramid ◦ Sanskrit - India
pen names (to hide their real identity from the public): ◦ on - specific
◦ Mark Langhorne Twain - Samuel Clemens - pinag-usapan ay daanan (streets, boulevard, avenue)
- The Adventure of Tom Sawyer (examples: Roxas Blvd., Ayala Avenue, Eagle Street)
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - days, birthday (examples: weekends (Saturday and Sunday), Monday)
◦ George Eliot - Mary Ann Evans, Marian Evans - majority can freely walk and stand (examples: jet plane, airplane, train, bus)
- Silas Marner - electronic devices (examples: computer, email, fax machine, telephone, cellphone)
◦ Robert Galbraith - J.K. Rowling ◦ at - very specific
- kapag ang daanan nilagyan na nag number (examples: 533 Eagle Street, house address)
Nelson Mandela - father of democracy in South Africa, likes peaceful talks - hours, less than one day (examples: 9 o’clock in the morning, 5pm, noon)
paragraphs:
◦ dream - democracy Rules in Subject-Verb Agreement:
◦ trait - forgiving ◦ 1st Rule: number agreement (In a sentence, between the subject and the verb, dapat isa lang
◦ method - non-violence - if the subject is singular, the verb is also singular ang dapat may letter “s“)
- if the subject is plural, the verb is also plural
other paragraphs: (examples: frog - jumps, frogs - jump)
◦ retired school teacher - cleanliness ◦ 2nd Rule: there or here (Kapag nagsisimula sa “here or there“, hahanapin ang subject. The subject
◦ Stephen Crane - Stephen’s Writings, (examples: here is the paper, here are the papers) is always placed after the verb.)
- Stephen’s Family and Boyhood ◦ 3rd Rule: joined by and (singular), separated by and (plural)
◦ extended family - grandmother (Tignan lang ang word na “and“. If “and“ is followed by another noun, it means magkasama sila, so
◦ Luis Dato’s spouse - house wife “is“ ang sagot. If “and“ is followed by “a, an and the“, it means magkahiwalay sila, so “are“ ang
◦ shaking and sweating - stage fright sagot.) (examples: bread and butter - is, the bread and the butter - are
◦ find strength in what remains behind - hope fish and rice - is, a fish and a cup of rice - are)
◦ sunrise - hopeful ◦ 4th Rule: indefinite pronouns (most indefinite pronouns is singular form of the verb)
◦ to be, or not to be - indecision (examples: everybody, each, everyone, somebody, nobody - is
◦ far the city light - isolation and loneliness few, many, several - are)
◦ grand design - destiny ◦ 5th Rule: singular or plural subjects connected by conjunctions (subject is the one closest to the
(examples: neither the teacher nor the students - were present verb)
parts of speech: neither the teachers nor the student - was present)
◦ noun - names of person, places, things (examples: flower, dog) ◦ 6th Rule: units of measure (singular form of the verb)
◦ pronoun - replacement of noun (examples: He, She, They) (examples: 10 minutes, 20 seconds, 20 miles, 20 pesos - is)
◦ adjective - describes the noun or pronoun (example: beautiful) ◦ 6th Rule: nouns ending in “s“ but singular in form or meaning
◦ verb - action words (example: listen) (examples: Mathematics, Physics, measles, news, Statistics - is)
◦ adverb - describes the verb or adjective, has “ly“ (examples: beautifully, quickly, slowly)
communication:
◦ preposition - shows relative position (examples: in, on, at)
◦ verbal - involved words
◦ conjunctions - joins words or phrases (examples: and, or, but)
◦ non-verbal - doesn’t involved words
◦ interjection - expresses strong feelings or emotions (examples: Oh my!, Yepey!, Yehey!)
terms to remember:
◦ technology - application of the specific concepts and principles
◦ motherboard - board that serves the foundation of the computer
◦ email - messages are easily transported
◦ keyboard - letters, numbers
◦ internet - information super highways
◦ Operating system - software that helps run the computer system
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE Carolus Linnaeus - father of taxonomy
- able to name 11,000 species of plants and animals
◦ hydrophobic - water fearing (example: lipids) process of taxonomy:
◦ hydrophilic - water loving (example: carbohydrates) ◦ identification - identify ang mga bagong organism na hindi pa na-discover
◦ classification - alamin kung ano ang phylogeny
macromolecules (needed from the body in large amount, kailangan ng ating katawan): ◦ naming organisms - bigyan ng scientific name ang mga organism
◦ carbohydrates - direct or immediate source of energy
- dito kukuha ang body ng source of energy kapag may gagawin kang activity system of taxonomy or classifying organisms:
- building block (bumubuo sa kaniya) ay monosaccharide (one sugar unit) ◦ phylogeny - it’s like a family tree
(source of carbohydrates: rice, bread, pasta, root crops, fruits) - classifying organisms based on evolution
◦ disaccharide - two sugar unit - magkasabay nag-evolve (kamag-anak)
◦ oligosaccharide - three or more sugar unit - hindi magkasabay nag-evolve (magkaibang species)
◦ polysaccharide - repeating sugar unit ◦ Linnaean system - introduced by Carolus Linnaeus
◦ sugar - most of them ends in “ose“ - walang pakialam sa evolution
(examples: glucose, sucrose (table sugar), fructose (sweetest sugar, - hinahanap lang niya ang kaniyang level of classification
derived from fruits), lactose, maltose, galactose, libose, dextrose) - sa ngayon, ito ang ginagamit na system
◦ glycogen - ito ang source of energy kapag naubos ang carbohydrates levels:
- sa isang araw kapag hindi mo naubos lahat ng carbohydrate na tinake mo, e ◦ domain ◦ kingdom ◦ phylum ◦ class ◦ order ◦ family ◦ genus ◦ species
discharge siya ng ating body sa liver in the form of this
◦ fats - ito ay mabuo kapag naubos ang glycogen domains of kingdom:
- long term source of energy ◦ bacteria - microorganism (maliit), unicellular (isang cell, buong organism), prokaryotic (walang
◦ proteins - building block ay amino acid (9 essential, 11 non-essential) totoong nucleus)
- most of them ends with “in“ - mga totoong bacteria na alam natin
(source of proteins: nuts, meat, fish) (examples: streptococcus, staphylococcus, lactobacillus)
(examples: keratin & collagen (nag-form ng structure ng ating body), insulin, pepsin, thiamine, ◦ archaea - microorganism, unicellular, prokaryotic, not a bacteria
oxytocin, all hormones) - extremophiles (nakatira sa extreme environment)
◦ butter - not a source of protein because it is lipids ◦ eukarya - complex organisms, may totoong nucleus
◦ lipids - building block ay fatty acids (triglyceride) - larger organism (examples: plants, animals, fungi, protis)
types:
◦ fats - derived from animals kingdom system:
- solid at normal room temperature ◦ Kingdom Monera - the only prokaryotic kingdom
◦ oil - derived from plants - an example of phylogeny
- liquid at normal room temperature (example: mosquito)
- naging solid lang ito kapag malamig ◦ Kingdom Protista - organisms na literally nag-protista talaga sila kasi magulo ang kanilang
◦ phospholipids classification
◦ steroids (cholesterol) - lahat ng magugulo, dito nag sama-sama
- parang plants pero hindi capable of photosynthesis, plant-like
◦ nucleic acid - genetic material (DNA & RNA)
(example: algae - seaweeds sa dagat)
- building block ay nucleotides
- parang animals pero hindi, animal-like
(examples: plasmodium, amoeba, protozoa)
entamoeba histolytica - protist that can cause dysentery (dugo ng tae)
- parang fungi pero hindi, fungus-like
plasmodium (isang protist na hindi nakakagalaw that’s why kailangan niya ng carrier which is the
(example: slime molds)
mosquito) vivax - causes malaria
gorilla beringei - mountain or eastern gorillas ◦ Kingdom Fungi - organisms that feeds on necrotic matter (kumakain ng patay at bulok)
streptococcus - mga bacteria (example: lactobacillus) (examples: yeast (fungus), mushroom, molds, microsporidia)
◦ Kingdom Plantae (example: narra) ◦ birds - mayroon silang thick structure, may feather, has an ability to fly
characteristics of a plant: - has hallow and strong bones
◦ can move birds than cannot fly:
◦ cannot locomote (transfer from one place to another) (examples: ostrich, penguin, flappy bird)
◦ can create their own food ◦ mammals - has hair, fur (balahibo), boobs (suso)
◦ producers - mammary gland (capability to produce milk)
◦ Kingdom Animalia
characteristics of an animal: Antarctica (kung wala sa option, Sahara ang sagot)
◦ can move - world’s largest ecosystem
◦ capable of locomotion desert - defined as no inhabitants or organisms
◦ cannot create their own food - hindi kailangan mainit, pwede din malamig
◦ dependent on plants kinds:
◦ consumers ◦ hot (non-polar) - (example: Sahara - part ng isang bansa)
◦ cold (polar) - (example: Antarctica - entire continent)
invertebrates - no backbone
(examples: jelly fish, worms, insects) ecosystem:
vertebrates - has backbone, spinal column levels of organization:
classes: ◦ cells - dito nag-start
◦ fishes ◦ tissue - pinag-sama ang cell
classes: ◦ organ - pinag-sama ang tissue
◦ jawless - no jaw (panga), mukhang snake ang body, pouty mouth ◦ system - pinag-sama ang organ
- hindi niya kayang mag-chew ◦ organism - pinag-sama ang system
- e-attach lang niya ang mouth niya sa body ng fish para mag-absorb ng ◦ population - is a group of organism of the same species living together at a specific
nutrients through sucking place and time
- can be seen on the deepest part of the ocean, they are primitive ◦ community - is a group of population (aso, pusa, halaman, tao, etc.) living together
(examples: hagfish, lampreys) (sinauna) ◦ ecosystem - temperature, water, air
◦ bony - may tinik, hasang at kaliskis - living and non-living components that interact with each other
(examples: bangus, tilapia, galunggong, sapsap) ◦ biosphere - malakihang ecosystem
◦ cartilaginous - giants of the sea - pinagsama ang everything that sustains life on Earth (air, land, water)
- dahil sa sobrang laki, hindi enough ang tinik lang, ang kailangan niya (examples: forest, grassland, tundra, desert)
ay bones that are made of cartilage
(examples: sharks, stingray) food chain - series of eating events wherein there is a transfer of energy
◦ whales and dolphins - not an example of cartilaginous fishes because (example: lettuce - caterpillar - bird - lion)
they are mammals food web - interconnected na food chain
◦ amphibians - organisms that spends their early life in water, adult life in land and - feeding connections between life form
returns to the water to mate because they are under external energy pyramid/ecological pyramid
fertilization - laging nasa base ang producers like the plants and cyanobacteria because they are
- has thin, wet and moist skin (malamig na manipis, na madulas na basa-basa) capable of manufacturing their own food tapos kakainin siya
- may specific time sa buhay nila kung kailan sila nasa water and land - habang umaakyat, yun yung kumakain sa producers (trophic level)
(examples: frogs, salamanders, toads, caecilians, newts) - habang umaakyat sa energy pyramid, hindi po yan 100%na energy efficiency, as a matter
◦ reptile - ang skin nila ay thick, dry, scaly (makapal, magaspang, tuyo, may kaliskis) of fact, only 10%lang ang pinapasa
(examples: crocodile, snake, turtle, tortoise, alligator, iguana, lizard) ◦ producers ◦ primary consumers ◦ secondary consumers ◦ tertiary consumers ◦ Quaternary
types of animals: ◦ structural development - body parts na evidence ng evolution
◦ herbivore - plants (example: koala bear) (example: vestigial structure)
◦ carnivore - meat (example: polar bear) ◦ embryological development - kapag titignan ang embryo ng chicken at human, pare-pareho lang
◦ omnivore - both plants and animals (example: rat) - first few stages ng ating embryo ay pare-pareho, nangangaling sa
iisang ancestor na ganon din ang stages of development na
specie interaction (uri ng relasyon): pinagdaanan
◦ commensalism - one is benefited, the other is unaffected
- pinakinabangan ka na pero hindi ka pa rin naapektuhan Vestigial structure - part of the large intestine but has no digestive function
(example: orchid and tree) - body parts that remains in the body but serves no specific function
◦ parasitism - one organism is benefited, the other is harmed - isa sa evidence ng evolution
- may isang nakinabang (parasite), may isang nasaktan (host) (examples: wisdom tooth, appendix, coccyx (tailbone), arrector pili muscle)
(examples: worm, kuto, garapata, linta)
◦ mutualism - you both benefit from each other, give and take relationship concepts of evolution:
- parehong nakinabang, rare lang ito ◦ theory of use and disuse (Jean-Baptiste Lamarck)
◦ amensalism - one is unaffected, the other is harmed - ang body part na laging ginagamit, lumalaki, humahaba, mas mag-dedevelop
- walang nakuhang benefit, pero piniling manakit - ang body part na hindi laging ginagamit, either lumiit, umiksi or eventually mawawala
(example: kinagat ka ng langgam pero wala siyang napala sayo pero nasugatan ka) ◦ Survival of the fittest (Charles Darwin)
◦ neutralism - you both exist but there is no specific relationship - hindi daw ang pinakamalaki, pinakamatalino, pinakamalakas or pinakamabilis ang
(example: puno ng santol at mangga, pareho silang nandiyan sa nag-susurvive sa environment kung hindi ang pinakamagaling mag-adapt sa changes
ecosystem pero wala naman silang effect sa isa’t-isa) - the more adapted you are to the environment, the more you will survive
◦ competition - playing the same ecological role ◦ natural selection (Herbert Spencer)
- pareho kayo ng kailangan or gusto ◦ homologous organ - human arms, bat’s wings, seal’s flipper
(example: puno ng santol ilipat sa tabi ng puno ng mangga, - the same ang kanilang function
mag compete sila sa sunlight, sources of nutrients, water)
◦ predation - a relationship between a larger (predator) and a smaller (prey) organism genetics (mag-explain kung bakit ganito ang itsura natin, paano minamana ang isang trait at kung
- nagkainan, may kumain, may kinain bakit magkakaiba ang ating itsura):
◦ blending theory - kalahati ng trait manggagaling sa tatay, kalahati sa nanay tapos mag-blend sila
evidences of evolution: - hindi totoo ang theory na ito kasi may mga anak na sobrang kamukha ng tatay
◦ fossils - nalaman na nag-exist ang dinosaurs before at sobrang kamukha din ng nanay
◦ cockroach - living fossil
◦ introduction of new organisms law that explains paano minana ang isang trait kung bakit ganito ang itsura natin:
- from time to time, may na-discover na bagong species ng mga organism ◦ law of segregation - ang mga traits ay separated from each other during cell division
◦ mutation - damages in the genes which were not corrected so it was manifested and resulted (example: hair - pwedeng kulot, pwedeng straight)
in a genetic disorder - during cell division, maghihiwalay ang trait mo para sa kulot at para kay straight
- abnormality sa genes na hindi agad na correct kaya lumabas siya at isa lang ang pwede makuha sa’yo and it happens by chance. Ito ang reason
- hindi sa lahat ng pagkakataon negative ito, may abnormality lang pero hindi big deal kung bakit ipinanganak kang straight or kulot ang buhok.
(examples: may blue-tooth sa tenga (accessory auricle), cleft chin, anim ang daliri sa kamay ◦ law of independent assortment
or paa (polydactyly), dimple) - ang mga traits ay inherited independently from each other
◦ backward evolution - babalik sa dating anyo - hindi magkasabay na minamana at hindi nakadepende sa isa’t-isa
(example: kapag nagkaroon ng backward evolution ang tao, babalikan ang angyong unggoy - no specific combination that’s why iba’t-ibang combination ang pwedeng mabuo at hindi
kasi according to evolution, the closest relative of man is Chimpanzee, tayo magkakamukha, it only happens by chance
99.9%amino acid sequence ng Chimpanzee) - hindi nakadepende ang height mo sa color ng skin, color ng skin sa color ng hair, etc.
◦ Uner Tan syndrome - hindi sila nakakatayo, buong buhay nila nakatuwad sila
- naglalakad kasama ang kamay like monkey
◦ law of complete dominance PHYSICAL SCIENCE
- masyadong ginalingan ang genes kaya may dominant trait phase change:
- kapag may parents ka na magkaiba exactly ang trait nila, tapos nagmana ka ng todo ◦ melting - solid naging liquid ◦ deionization - plasma naging gas
sa isa (example: ang tatay ay maitim, ang nanay sobrang puti at
◦ freezing - liquid naging solid ◦ sublimation - solid naging gas
noong ipinanganak ka, sobra mong itim)
◦ evaporation - liquid naging gas (example: naphthalene balls)
◦ law of incomplete dominance
◦ condensation - gas naging liquid ◦ deposition - gas naging solid
- hindi ginalingan pareho ang genes kaya wala kang pinagmanahan
◦ ionization - gas naging plasma
- kapag nag-combine ang dalawang genes at nagkaroon ng intermediate trait ang gitna nila
- kapag may parents ka na magkaiba exactly ang trait nila, tapos hindi ka nagmana kahit
concepts of light and sound:
isa sa kanila, ang gitnang trait nila ang namana mo
◦ solid - sound will travel fastest ◦ air or gas - sound will travel more slowly
(example: ang tatay ay maitim, ang nanay sobrang puti at noong ipinanganak ka, gray ka)
- light will travel most slowly - light will travel slowly
◦ law of co-dominance
◦ liquid - sound will travel slowly ◦ vacuum (empty space; no matter, no particles)
- ginalingan pareho ang genes kaya pareho silang dominant
- light will travel more slowly - sound will travel most slowly
- madalas lang ito mangyari sa hayop, hindi sa tao
- light will travel fastest
(example: ang tatay ay maitim, ang nanay sobrang puti at noong ipinanganak ka,
concepts of thunder and lightning:
may color ka na black and white)
◦ sabay silang ini-release ng atmosphere
◦ una nakikita ang lightning bago ang thunder kasi mas mabilis mag travel si light kapag sa air or
concepts to differentiate:
gas compared to sound
◦ heredity - inheritance
◦ lightning strikes the tallest object
- ito ang nag-explain paano minana or pinasa yung trait from parent to
the offspring
MnF3 - Manganese (III) fluoride (rule: baliktarin ang radicals)
◦ variation - nag-explain ng individual differences kung bakit magkakaiba ang itsura ng tao
◦ genotype - genetic make-up
concepts of chemistry:
- ito ang nag describe kung anong genes ang meron ka kung homozygous or
◦ Ca - Calcium
heterozygous, dominant or recessive
◦ Te - Tellurium
◦ phenotype - physical appearance (example: tall or short)
◦ ionic bond - transfer of electrons whether nag gain or nag loss
◦ dominant - superior trait (traits na na-eexpress)
- ang isang atom, para maging stable, kailangan niya ng 8 electrons
(examples: parehong malaki na letter, isang malaking letter at isang maliit na letter
- group number is equal to number of electrons
as long as present ang malaki na letter, dominant pa rin)
(example: sodium has 1 electron while chlorine has 7 electrons, meaning e-donate ni
◦ recessive - inferior trait (hindi lumalabas na trait)
sodium ang nag-iisang electron niya kay chlorine para maging stable si chlorine)
(example: parehong maliit na letter)
◦ covalent bond - sharing of electrons
◦ homozygous - the same characteristics
(example: carbon has 4 electrons while the other element has 4 electrons, meaning they
(example: parehong malaki or maliit na letter)
have to share their electrons para maging stable sila)
◦ heterozygous - different characteristics
◦ metalloid - has properties of both metals and non-metals, in between metals and non-metals
(example: isang malaking letter at isang maliit na letter)
◦ ambivalent - elements na pwede maging dalawa ang kaniyang charge (positive and negative)
(example: hydrogen ion)
nucleic acid (DNA & RNA) - molecule that contains the organisms genetic make-up
◦ esters - organic compound present in perfume
trisomy 21 - down syndrome
- nagbibigay ng mabangong amoy sa pineapple and mango
- extra copy of chromosome number 21
- kahit hindi sila magkakamag-anak, iisa lang ang feature ng mukha nila ◦ bright green - color ng boron sa flame test
- either sobrang baba or sobrang taas ang mata sa tenga
- magkapareha sila ng ugali (super sweet, appreciative, malambing) states of matter:
normal person - has 46 chromosomes; 23 from the father, 23 from the mother ◦ solid ◦ plasma - very hot gas of nuclei and
◦ liquid electrons na makikita sa stars
◦ gas at fluorescent lamp
EARTH SCIENCE circle - not a polygon
terms to remember: polygon (close figure with sides):
◦ Midnight Sun - hindi lumubog ang araw, 24 hours maliwanag sa isang lugar ◦ triangle - three ◦ dodecagon - twelve
- sun shines all the time both day and night ◦ quadrilateral - four ◦ triskaidecagon - thirteen
◦ Norway - it is where you can observe the Midnight Sun ◦ pentagon - five ◦ tetradecagon - fourteen
◦ tilting of the Earth on its axis ◦ hexagon - six ◦ pentadecagon - fifteen
- causes season kasi hindi equal ang amount of rainfall ◦ heptagon - seven ◦ hexadecagon - sixteen
◦ mesosphere - part or layer ng ating atmosphere na-burn ang mga meteors kaya hindi siya umabot ◦ octagon - eight ◦ heptadecagon - seventeen
sa Earth ◦ nonagon - nine ◦ octadecagon - eighteen
◦ typhoon - storm in the Pacific ◦ decagon - ten ◦ enneadecagon - nineteen
◦ hurricane - storm in the Atlantic Ocean ◦ undecagon, hendecagon ◦ icosagon - twenty
◦ cyclone - storm in the Indian Ocean - eleven
◦ Pacific Ring of Fire
formula:
- where the Philippines lie in which there are many active volcanoes
I = Prt
- everyday may volcanic activities kaya lang hindi natin namamalayan
where:
I - interest (tinubo ng pera)
MATHEMATICS P - principal amount (amount borrowed)
r - rate (percent)
terms to remember:
t - time (month or year)
◦ rectangular solid - approximate shape of a brick (hollow blocks)
◦ oblate spheroid - approximate shape of the Earth water meter:
◦ square - shape or polygon that all sides are equal present reading (big amount) - previous reading (small amount) x cost per kiloliter + basic charge
◦ rectangle - opposite sides are equal
◦ parallelogram - opposite angles are equal
FILIPINO
◦ 9m2 - area of a circle inscribed in a square having a side of 63 meters
◦ 25 - prime numbers between 1 and 100 parts of speech:
◦ prime numbers - walang ibang factor maliban sa kaniyang sarili at one ◦ noun - pangngalan ◦ adverb - pang-abay
- starts with number 2
◦ pronoun - panghalip ◦ adjective - pang-uri
◦ one - special number
◦ preposition - pang-ukol ◦ conjunction - pangatnig
◦ 20 - number of times will a digit appears between 1 and 100
◦ verb - pandiwa ◦ interjection - pandamdam
◦ perimeter - the sum of the sides of a polygon
◦ 12 - number of edges of a cube terms to remember:
◦ 24cm - basta about cube ang tanong (formula: 12z) ◦ laban - PINAGLABANAN
◦ 12cm - basta about triangle ang tanong (formula: Pythagorean theorem) ◦ suko - SINUKUAN
◦ 30 days in a month + 1 day ◦ saliksik - SINALIKSIK
- June, April, November, September ◦ ingay - mortal na kaaway ng pakikinig
◦ 31 days in a month + 2 days ◦ pagyayabang - hindi mahalagang salik ng pagtatalumpati
- January, March, May, July, August, October, December
◦ 28 days (if leap year + 1 day, year that is divisible by 4) gamit ng wika:
- February ◦ komunikasyon - pakikipag-ugnayan
◦ ratio and proportion - basta about rice and viand ◦ sumasalamin sa kultura at henerasyon
◦ pagpapalaganap ng kaalaman
teorya ng pinagmulan ng wika: pagbabagong morpoponemiko:
◦ Tore ng Babel - ang wika ay nagmula sa bibliya ◦ asimilasyon - nagpapalit ng isang ponema
◦ Bow-wow (tulad ng aso at ang hayop ay parte ng kalikasan) (examples: pangbansa - pambansa, madumi - marumi)
- ang wika ay nagmula sa tunog ng kalikasan ◦ pagpapalit ng ponema - nagpalit lang ng ponema pero the same pa rin ang meaning
◦ Ding-dong (tulad ng doorbell at ito ay isang bagay) (example: lalaki - lalake)
- ang wika ay nagmula sa tunog ng bagay ◦ metatesis - pagpapalit ng posisyon ng ponema
◦ Yo-he-ho - ang wika ay nagmula sa tunog ng pwersang pisikal (examples: nilipad - lipadin, niyakap - yinakap)
◦ Pooh-pooh - ang wika ay nagmula sa tunog ng masidhing damdamin ng tao ◦ pagkakaltas - tinanggalan ng isang tunog
◦ Yum-yum - ang wika ay nagmula sa tunog ng dila (examples: labahan - labhan, sarahan - sarhan, dalahin - dalhin)
◦ Ta-ta - ang wika ay nagmula sa tunog ng kumpas og galaw ng kamay ◦ paglilipat-diin - pagpapalit-diin
◦ Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay - ang wika ay nagmula sa tunog ng ritwal (examples: laro - nasa “ro“ ang diin, laroan - nasa “an“ ang diin)
antas ng wika (anong level naiintindihan): aspeto ng pandiwa (tenses of the verb):
◦ pambansa - ang wika ay naiintindihan sa buong bansa ◦ perperktibo - ito yung naganap na, na-perfect na ang action (tapos na)
◦ lalawiganin - ang wika ay naiintindihan sa isang lugar or lalawigan (example: pumasok)
◦ pampanitikan - ang wika ay ginagamit sa akda or sulatin ◦ imperperktibo - hindi pa tapos, ginagawa pa lang
◦ kolokyal - ginagamit sa pakikipag-usap araw-araw (example: pumapasok)
◦ balbal - salitang kalye or kanto, salitang pinaikli or pinahaba ◦ kontemplatibo - pinag-iisipan pa kung gagawin ang action or hindi
- impormal na nilikha at nabuo, street language - gagawin pa lang, magaganap pa lamang
◦ jargon - ginagamit base sa profession (example: papasok)
◦ pangnagdaan - actions na kakatapos mo lang gawin or kagaganap pa lamang
barayte ng wika (may “ek“ sa dulo): (example: kapapasok)
◦ dayalek - sinasalita sa isang lugar, rehiyon, pangkat
◦ sosyolek - sinasalita base sa estado ng lipunan idiomatic expressions (beyond meaning):
◦ idyolek - pansariling wika ◦ imposible - ang kanyang mungkahi ay suntok sa buwan at di matutupad
◦ etnolek - nanggaling sa pangkat etniko ◦ duwag - pinagmamalaki ko siya, bahag naman pala ang kanyang buntot
◦ ekolek - sinasalita sa bahay ◦ traydor - siya ay buwaya sa katihan
◦ minalas - ang mga magsasaka ay inalat
struktura ng wikang Filipino: ◦ mahal ni daddy si Neneng, paborito ni daddy si Neneng
◦ ponolohiya - pag-aaral ng makabuluhang tunog ng mga ponema - Neneng is the apple of daddy’s eye.
◦ morpolohiya - pag-aaral ng makabuluhang unit ng salita ng mga morpema ◦ maagap - a stitch in time saves nine
◦ semantika - pag-aaral ng kahulugan ng salita - kapag may sira ang isang bagay, na-fix mo agad kaya hindi na siya mas lalaki
◦ sentaksis - pag-aaral ng salita sa isang pangungusap ◦ maaasahan mo ako - you can count on me
◦ ortograpiya - pag-aaral ng pagbabaybay or spelling ◦ balewala - the present problem was a storm in a tea cup (maliit na bagay)
◦ magtipid - waste not, want not
uri ng morpema: - kapag walang sinasayang, wala ka nang gugustuhin pa
◦ morpemang ponema - tunog lang, isang letter lang pero may sariling kahulugan ◦ exaggerated - creating among them out of a hole
- nagdagdag lang isang letter sa isang salita, naiba na ang kahulugan ◦ limited - di-mapagkasya, making both ends meet
(examples: doktor - lalaki, doktora - babae)
◦ morpemang salitang-ugat - pinakapayak na anyo ng salita na wala pang halong panlapi (root word)
◦ morpemang panlapi - dinagdag sa salitang-ugat
anyo ng panitikan: tayutay (figures of speech):
◦ tuluyan (prose) ◦ pagtutulad - simile
examples: ◦ pagwawangis - metaphor
◦ alamat - legends ◦ parabula - parables ◦ pagsasatao - personification, portray human attribute
◦ kwentong bayan - folktale ◦ maikling kuwento - short story ◦ pagmamalabis - hyperbole
◦ awiting bayan - folk song ◦ dula - play ◦ pag-uyam - irony, sarcasm
◦ karunungang bayan - folklore ◦ sanaysay - essay ◦ pagpapalit/paglilipat-saklaw - synecdoche
◦ anekdota - anecdote ◦ talambuhay - biography ◦ pagpapalit-tawag - metonymy
◦ novel - nobela ◦ talumpati - oration ◦ pagtawag - apostrophe, talking to someone na hindi nag-exist or hindi kaya sumagot
◦ fables - pabula ◦ balita - news (examples: kapalaran! huwag ka sanang mailap)
◦ patula (poetry) ◦ paghihimig - onomatopoeia
examples:
◦ awit - song, 12 ang sukat ◦ tanaga - maikling tula ng katutubo uri ng panlapi:
(example: Florante at Laura) ◦ bugtong - riddles (palaisipan) ◦ unlapi - ang panlapi ay nasa unahan
◦ koredo - 8 ang sukat ◦ pastoral - buhay ng kabukiran (rural) ◦ gitlapi - ang panlapi ay nasa gitna
(example: Ibong Adarna) ◦ elehiya - song of the dead ◦ hulapi - ang panlapi ay nasa dulo
◦ epiko - epic ◦ oda - tulang papuri sa isang tao ◦ kabilaan - ang panlapi ay nasa unahan at dulo
◦ balad - ballad ◦ bulong - binubulong habang sinusumpa ◦ laguhan - ang panlapi ay nasa dulo at unahan, gitna at dulo
◦ sawikain - idioms ang isang tao
◦ salawikain - sayings ◦ panunudyo - mang-iinis, mang-aasar
uri ng talumpati:
◦ impromptu - binigay ang topic on the spot
◦ extemporaneous - binigay ang topic na may 2 minutes nalang para mag-prepare
- konti nalang ang oras to prepare
◦ prepared - binigay in advance ang topic kahit next week pa ang presentation