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- Subject-verb agreement
- A singular subject takes a singular verb and a plural subject takes a plural verb. Words such as each, every, either and everyone are treated as singular.
- Present perfect tense
- Formed with has or have plus the past participle. It describes a past action that has present relevance and is used without a stated past time.
- Simile
- A figure of speech that compares two different things using the words like or as, for example as brave as a lion or runs like the wind.
- Indirect speech
- Reported speech that changes pronouns, backshifts the tense by one step, and changes time and place words such as now to then and here to there.
- BODMAS order
- The agreed order of operations: brackets first, then orders or powers, then division and multiplication left to right, then addition and subtraction left to right.
- Simple interest formula
- Simple interest equals principal multiplied by rate multiplied by time, divided by one hundred. The rate is per year and time is in years.
- Pythagoras' theorem
- In a right-angled triangle the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides, so a squared plus b squared equals c squared.
- Mean, median and mode
- The mean is the sum of values divided by their number, the median is the middle value of ordered data, and the mode is the most frequent value.
- Photosynthesis equation
- Carbon dioxide plus water, using light energy and chlorophyll, produces glucose and oxygen. It takes place in the chloroplasts of green plant cells.
- Neutralisation
- The reaction between an acid and a base to form a salt and water. The resulting solution is closer to neutral than either reactant.
- Series versus parallel circuits
- In a series circuit there is one path, so current is the same everywhere and voltage divides. In a parallel circuit there are separate paths.
- Food chain
- A sequence showing how energy passes from a producer that makes its own food, through consumers that eat others, to decomposers that break down dead matter.
- Ghana's independence
- Ghana became independent from British colonial rule on 6 March 1957 and became a republic on 1 July 1960, with Kwame Nkrumah as first leader.
- Separation of powers
- The division of government into the executive that implements policy, the legislature that makes laws, and the judiciary that interprets laws, each checking the others.
- Map scale
- The ratio between a distance measured on a map and the real distance on the ground, allowing actual distances to be calculated from map measurements.
- ECOWAS
- The Economic Community of West African States, a regional body promoting trade, free movement of people and economic cooperation among West African member countries.
- Five Pillars of Islam
- Shahada, the declaration of faith; Salat, daily prayer; Zakat, almsgiving; Sawm, fasting during Ramadan; and Hajj, pilgrimage to Mecca for those able.
- Golden Rule
- The ethical principle of treating others as you wish to be treated. It appears in similar form in Christianity, Islam and traditional Ghanaian ethics.
- Outdooring ceremony
- A Ghanaian naming ceremony held days after birth, where the child is formally presented to the community and given a name, often with symbolic water and salt.
- Adinkra symbols
- Visual symbols of Akan origin, each standing for a proverb or idea such as unity, wisdom or forgiveness, used on cloth, buildings and artwork.
- Tone in Ghanaian languages
- The use of pitch level, high or low, to distinguish word meaning. Misreading tone can change the meaning of a correctly spelled word.
- Design process
- A staged method: identify the problem, research, generate ideas, choose the best, build a prototype, test and evaluate, then improve the design.
- Balanced diet
- A diet supplying carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, water and fibre in the right proportions to maintain health and prevent deficiency diseases.
- Warp and weft
- In weaving, warp threads run lengthwise along the loom and weft threads are woven across them to build up the fabric.
- RAM versus ROM
- RAM is volatile working memory erased when power is off, while ROM is non-volatile memory holding startup instructions that remain when power is removed.
- File extension
- The short suffix after the dot in a file name that shows the file type, such as .docx for a document or .xlsx for a spreadsheet.
- Spreadsheet cell
- The intersection of a row and a column, identified by a column letter and row number, which can hold data or a formula beginning with an equals sign.
- French definite articles
- Le for masculine, la for feminine, l' before a vowel or silent h, and les for plural. They agree with the gender and number of the noun.
- Passé composé
- A French past tense formed with the present tense of avoir or être plus a past participle. Movement verbs such as aller take être.
- French negation
- Formed by placing ne before the verb and pas after it. Before a vowel, ne becomes n', as in Je n'aime pas.
- Colour theory
- Red, yellow and blue are primary colours; mixing two primaries gives a secondary colour. Complementary colours sit opposite each other on the colour wheel.
- Entrepreneurship
- Identifying a need, planning a product or service, costing materials and labour, pricing to cover cost and yield profit, then marketing to customers.