Liceul Teoretic Lucian Blaga Cluj-Napoca

Profesor: Claudia Morar

Clasa a IX-a C, a IX-a B
Nr. ore sapt. 4

Nr.
Crt.

PLANIFICARE CALENDARISTICA PENTRU CLASA a IX-a,

LIMBA 1
ANUL SCOLAR 2016-2017
MANUAL: GOING FOR GOLD UPPER INTERMEDIATE
Coninuturi
Competene Specifice
*detalieri tematice
**elemente de construcie a comunicrii
*** funcii comunicative
Revision/Initial test paper/Placement test/Getting to know one
another/Communication
Changing world
*Vocabulary: Word families (nouns/adjectives); Looking after the
environment
**Grammar: Present simple and present continuous: future forms
Reading: Machu Picchu (multiple matching: headings); finding similar words
and phrases
Listening: Antarctica (multiple matching); predicting content using key words
***Speaking; Working and non-working holidays; organising your ideas; ways of
comparing
Writing: Article (1); What can tourists see and do in your town or area?;
features of a good article
Use of English: The Thames Barrier: Word formation; Focusing on nouns and
adjectives
Turn up the music
*Vocabulary: Music; expressions with bring and take:
**Grammar: Expressing purpose (in order to, so that); questions (subject/object
and direct/indirect)
Reading: Is there music on Mars? (multiple choice); trying to answer questions
before seeing options
Listening: Pop idol (true/false); reading questions before listening; song:
Anything is possible (Will Young)
***Speaking: Talking about yourself (general conversation); making different
types of questions
Writing: Transactional letter; letter to v a friend asking for information;
features of a transactional letter
Use of English: key word transformations; test yourself (similar or different
pairs)
With friends like these
*Vocabulary: Relationships; describing personality
**Grammar: Present perfect simple (for, since, ever, just, yet, already); so and
such
Reading: A small circle of good friends (multiple matching: questions);
scanning for specific information

Nr. de
ore
alocate

Saptamana

S1 12-16.09
S2 19.09-23.09

Observaii

Valori i atitudini
.1; 1.2; 2.1; 2.2; 3.2; 3.3;

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S3 26 30.09
S4 3-07.10

1.1; 1.2; 2.1; 2.2; 3.2;

3.3;

Initial test
paper
Error analysis

Manifestarea flexibilitii
n cadrul schimbului de
idei i n cadrul lucrului n
echip n diferite situaii
de comunicare

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S5 10-14.10
S6 17.21.10
1.1; 1.2; 2.1; 2 3.2; 4.1;
Contientizarea rolului
limbii engleze ca mijloc
de acces la patrimoniul
culturii universale

1.1; 1.2; 2.2; 3.3;

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S7 24-28.10
S8 31.10-04.11

Test paperPresent
simple ,
continuous,
future/so
that/in order to

Listening: About a boy (note taking); predicting missing information; People

close to you (multiple choice: unrelated extracts)
***Speaking: Ways of keeping in touch with people (discussion); ways of giving
your opinion and asking for someone else's opinion
Writing: Informal letter (1); letter to a friend telling recent news; using
informal language
Use of English: Likeness of a person (open cloze); procedure for thinking of
the correct word
Dream on6*Vocabulary: Making adjectives with suffixes; interesting vocabulary
(e.g. to glance, towander)
**Grammar: Like and as; narrative tenses
Reading: A dream come true? (gapped text); predicting content of missing
sentences
Listening: Dreams (multiple matching); predicting content through pictures
***Speaking: Personal information (general conversation); asking for
repetition/clarification
Writing: Story(1); linking expressions of time (e.g. finally, after that)
Use of English: Hothouse children (error correction); focusing on type of
words missing)
Things that matter
*Vocabulary: Word families (e.g. invent, invention, inventor); materials (e.g.
leather, wool)
**Grammar: Time expressions (e.g. during, while, by the time); can, could, be
able to, manage to
Reading: 100 years of gadgets (multiple matching: questions)
Listening: Famous scientists (sentence completion); predicting missing
words; Your favourite things (multiple matching); predicting content
***Speaking: Things that are important to you (collaborative tasks);
communicating interactively
Writing: Article (2); I couldn't live without it!; paragraphing
Use of English: Living the simple life (word formation); focusing on nouns,
adjectives, verbs
My hero!
*Vocabulary: Making uncountable nouns countable (e.g. piece of luggage); body
and health
**Grammar: Countable and uncountable nouns and quantifiers; reported speech
and reporting verbs
Reading: The rise of the superheroes (multiple choice); procedure for multiple
choice questions
Listening: Multiple choice: unrelated extracts; justifying your answers;
Christopher Reeve (sentence completion); predicting missing information
***Speaking: Hospitals, first aid and wheel chair access (discussion); making
extended response
Writing: Report (1): Facilities for the disabled; features of a good report
Use of English: Multiple choice cloze; French Spider-Man reaches top of oil
HQ
Moving on
*Vocabulary: Verbs related to leaving (e.g. to set off, to move house);verbs and
expressions with get (e.g. get to know)

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S9 7-11.11
S10 14.11-18.11

Halloween
sketch
rehearsals

1.1; 1.2; 2.1; 3.2; 4.1;

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S11 21-25.11
S12 28-02.12

1.1; 1.2; 2.2; 3.3; 4.2;

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S13 15-09.12
S14 12-16.12

1.1; 1.2; 2.1; 2.3; 3.2; 4.1;

1.1; 1.2; 2.3; 3.2; 4.1;

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S15 19-23.12
S16 9-13.01

Christmas
carols

10

11

12

**Grammar: Used to( do) or be used to (doing)?; making comparisons

Reading: Rites of passage (gapped text); focusing on words that refer
backwards and forwards
Listening: Song: The power of goodbye (Madonna); multiple choice
(unrelated extracts); establishing contexts through key words
***Speaking: Saying goodbye (comparing photos); organising your comments
(first general, then specific)
Writing: Transactional letter (2); letter to a friend; paragraphing, letter layout
and what to include
Use of English: Key word transformations; working out which structure is
being tested
Land of the Pharaohs
*Vocabulary: Distances and dimensions (e.g. tall, narrow, deep); phrasal verbs
**Grammar: Articles; Relative clauses
Reading: A resting place for the gods (multiple matching: heading) predicting
content from headings; How the camel got his hump (comprehension questions)
Listening: The curse of the Pharaohs (true/false); focusing on key information
in the questions
***Speaking: Personal conversation; expressing doubt and uncertainty
Writing: Story (2); story from a title; linking words of consequence (e.g. so,
therefore)
Use of English: Word formation; Stargate - a review; endings for nouns and
adjectives
Talk to me
**Grammar: Giving advice (present) and criticism (past); intensifiers
*Vocabulary: Expressions about speaking (e.g. speak up, talk shop);
newspapers and television
Reading: 17,000 school students probably now hate my name! (gapped text);
linking expressions to show connections between ideas
Listening: Oprah Winfrey (note taking); predicting content from the notes
***Speaking: Mass media (discussion); ways of summarising and reporting a
decision
Writing: Article (3); Most people don't read enough; introduction and
conclusion paragraphs
Use of English: Open cloze; Interactive television; focusing on what kind of
word is missing
More, more, more
*Vocabulary: Money and shopping; prepositions with nouns, verbs and adjectives
(e.g. famous for, spend on)
**Grammar: Obligation (present and past); too and enough
Reading: Shop till you drop! (multiple choice); key words in questions and text
Listening: Feng Shui (multiple matching); focusing on the main message
***Speaking: What makes you happy? (collaborative task); giving yourself time
to think and reacting to your partner's ideas
Writing: Discursive composition (1); What is important for a happy life?;
linking phrases for organising your ideas (e.g. first of all, in conclusion)
Use of English: Multiple choice cloze; Name your price; choosing between the
four options;
Water, water everywhere

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S17 16-20.01
S18 23.01-27.01
1.1; 1.2; 2.1; 2.2; 3.1; 3.2;
3.4; 4.2;

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S19 30.01-03.02
S20 09-22.02
1.1; 1.2; 1.3; 1.6; 2.3;

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S21 20-24.02
S22 27.02-03.03
1.1; 1.2; 2.1; 2.2; 2.4; 3.1;
3.2; 4.2;

1.1; 1.2; 2.3; 3.2; 4.1;

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14

15

*Vocabulary: Verbs and nouns of "using"; adjectives describing feelings

**Grammar: Question tags; present perfect simple or continuous?
Reading: The power of dolphins (gapped text); focusing on different types of
language links
Listening: Water: fascinating facts (multiple choice); listening for key words;
Water sports (multiple matching); predicting content
***Speaking: People enjoying themselves in water (comparing photos); different
types of specific comments
Writing: Story (3); story ending with the words ... ; time phrases (e.g. during
his teenage years, only a year later)
Use of English: Error correction; Five Olympic Golds!; ordering stages for
dealing with task type
Give us a clue
*Vocabulary: Crime and evidence (e.g. fingerprint, suspect); word families (e.g.
life, lively, lifeless)
**Grammar: Modals of deduction (present, past)
Reading: Crime scene (multiple matching: headings); predicting headings from
content
Listening: The life and death of Marilyn Monroe (note taking); predicting
missing information
***Speaking: Witness to a crime (describing what you saw); noticing elements in
a picture
Writing: Informal letter (2); describing an unusual event; linking words (e.g.
eventually, then); multiple choice cloze (vocabulary)
Use of English: Multiple choice cloze; Frozen in time; choosing the correct
alternative
A long way from home
*Vocabulary: Travel; phrasal verbs and expressions with make
**Grammar: Gerund or infinitive?; future perfect or continuous
Reading: Get away from it all! (multiple matching: questions); expressing
statements in different words; The time machine by H.G. Wells (comprehension
questions)
Listening: The most travelled man in the history (true/false); making
questions to help you listen; song: Proud (Heather Small)
***Speaking: Deciding what to put in a time capsule (collaborative task);
sounding interested and involved
Writing: Transactional letter (3); choosing a holiday with some friends;
focusing a appropriate content and style
Use of English: Key word transformations; following instructions correctly
Just an act
*Vocabulary: TV, cinema, theatre (e.g. audience, subtitles); conversational
phrases (e.g. there's no point, we may as well)
**Grammar: Comparative and superlative adverbs; passives
Reading: A man for all time (multiple matching: headings); justifying your
choice from the text
Listening: Two extracts from the play After Liverpool
***Speaking: Dressing for a night out (comparing photos); ways of comparing
and contrasting
Writing: Discursive composition (2): Cinema or video? Linkers of contrast;

S23 6-10.03
S24 13-17.03

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S23 6-10.03
S24 13-17.03
1.1; 1.2; 1.3; 1.6; 2.1; 2.3;
3.2; 4.3

S27 3-7.04
S28 10-14.04

S29 2-5.05
S30 08-12.05

1.1; 1.2; 2.1; 2.2; 3.1; 3.2;

3.4; 4.2;

1.1; 1.2; 2.1; 2.3; 3.2; 4.1;

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organising paragraphs
Use of English: Open cloze; Moulin Rouge - a review; procedure for dealing
with open cloze
Giving something back
*Vocabulary: Phrasal verbs and expressions with give; extreme adjectives (e.g.
tired/exhausted)
**Grammar: Verbs with objects (e.g. give something to someone); unless, as long
as, in case
Reading: Spending a year abroad (multiple matching: questions); finding key
words and parallel expressions
Listening: Multiple choice (unrelated extracts); justifying your answers; Bill
Gates (sentence completion); predicting missing information
***Speaking: Moral dilemmas (discussion); review of giving opinions, asking for
opinions and expressing uncertainty
Writing: Report (2); recommending a charity; ways of recommending
Use of English: Word formation; Something for everyone?
Progress check Units 13-15

S31 15-19.05
S32 22-26.05

S33 29.05-02.06
S34 05-09.06
(Scoala, altfel)
S35 12-16.06

1.1; 1.2; 1.3; 1.4; 1.5; 2.3;

2.6; 3.1; 3.2;