СОР Английский язык 11 класс 2 четверть ОГН «Investigate and Report on Timekeeping Devices/Science video» с ответами
Summative assessment for the unit «Investigate and Report on Timekeeping Devices/Science
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English language Grade 11 SHD
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СОР Английский язык 11 класс 2 четверть ОГН «Investigate and Report on Timekeeping Devices/Science
video» с ответами
Summative assessment for the unit «Investigate and Report on Timekeeping Devices/Science
video»
Learning objectives
Assessment criteria
Level of thinking skills
Duration
Reading
Task 1. Read the article.
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11.4.2
11.1.7
11.5.1
11.6.6
Understand specific information and detail in extended texts
on a wide range of familiar and unfamiliar general and
curricular topics
Develop and sustain a consistent argument when speaking
or writing
Plan, write, edit and proofread work at text level
independently on a wide range of general and curricular
topics
Use a growing variety of impersonal and cleft structures on
a wide range of general and curricular topics
Identify specific information in extended texts
Give consistent arguments in writing a text
Make a clear plan of writing; Write a text; Check the written
draft
Write grammatically correct sentences using impersonal
sentences
Knowledge and Comprehension
Application
Higher order thinking skills
20 minutes
A chronicle of timekeeping
Before the invention of artificial light, the moon had greater social impact. And, for those living near
the equator in particular, its waxing and waning was more conspicuous than the passing of the
seasons. Hence, the calendars that were developed at the lower latitudes were influenced more by the
lunar cycle than by the solar year. In more northern climes, however, where seasonal agriculture was
practised, the solar year became more crucial. As the Roman Empire expanded northward, it
organised its activity chart for the most part around the solar year.
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In order to track temporal hours during the day, inventors created sundials, which indicate time by
the length or direction of the sun's shadow. The sundial's counterpart, the water clock, was designed
to measure temporal hours at night. One of the first water clocks was a basin with a small hole near
the bottom through which the water dripped out. The falling water level denoted the passing hour as
it dipped below hour lines inscribed on the inner surface. Alth