PLANIFICARE CALENDARISTICA

2014-2015

Unitatea de nvmnt: Scoala gimnaziala Husasau de Tinca

Disciplina: Limba Englez
Profesor: Birta Simona Ioana
Clasa/nr. ore pe spt.: a VIII-a - 2 ore/spt.
Manualul: Snapshot Intermediate

Unit

1.

Starting the
first semester
Revision

Abiliti
es

Structures

H
o
ur
s

W
ee
k

Notes

Exercises

12

Initial test
paper

Families
2.

1.1
2.2
2.3
3.2
3.4

Vocabulary: phrasal verbs with get; family members;

relationships

Function: start and maintain a conversation, informal letters

23

Structure: Present simple and continuous; Present perfect

simple with for and since; Verbs not normally used in the
continuous tenses

4.1
4.3
Nepal trek
3.

1.2

Vocabulary: phrasal verbs with go; travel

2.3

Function: ask, give or refuse permission

3.1

Structure: Past simple and present perfect simple; the definite

article and zero article

4.1

456

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Fast rewind
4

Including a
test paper

Revision

Lucky day?

1.3

narrative
composition

2.2
2.3
3.1
4.1
4.2

Vocabulary: word building from verbs of emotions; phrasal

verbs with give
Function: announce and respond to good and bad news,
Structure: Past simple, past continuous; time clauses with:
when, while, as, as soon as, before, after

67

Fancy seeing
you again!

1.2

Vocabulary: adjectives and prepositions

2.2

Function: give, accept or refuse invitations

3.1

Structure: Future with will/wont, may/might, going to or

present continuous

4.2
Fast rewind
6

`The thirty-nine
steps by John
Buchan

Edinburgh

4.3

1.2
2.2

description of a
place

3.2
3.3

89

Consolidation of language and skills

10

Vocabulary: special uncountable nouns, places in towns,

clothes

11
12

12
13
14

Revision

Function: shop for clothes

Structure: clauses and linkers of contrast: although, however, ,
in spite of, despite + gerund (-ing)

4.1
4.2
8

Mind how you

go!

1.2

Vocabulary: motorbikes and cas; phrasal verbs with look

1.3

Function: give, accept and question or refuse advice

2.1

Structure: Verbs: should(nt), ought(not), had better (not);

comparison aof adjectives and adverbs; comparatives with:
much, a lot, for; comparative phrase the...the...; obligation and
prohibition with verbs must, have (got) to, neednt

2.2
3.2

Including a
test paper

3.3

Revision

4.2
Fast rewind

4.3

Starting the
second
semester
9

Ready for lift-of

semi-formal
letters

1.2

Vocabulary: personality adjectives; jobs and ocupations

2.1

Function: agree and disagree

3.2

Structure: 1st conditional if/unless clause + will/wont; 1st

conditional imperative clause with conjunctionn or; time
clauses in yhe future with when/as soon as

4.2

15
16

4.1
4.3
10

Star quality

1.2
2.1

Fast rewind
11

`The horse
whisperer` by

Vocabulary: adjective formation with endings y, -ive, -ful,

-ent, -ant, -(i)bus, -ic; phrasal verbs with take; types of films

3.2

Structure: Relative clauses with who(m), which, that, where,

whose; present perfect simple and continuous

3.3

Function: Ask and give positive and negative opinion

4.2

Revision

17
18

19

4.3
Consolidation of language and skills

Including a
test paper

Nicholas Evans
12

I wish...

discursive
composition

1.2

Vocabulary: electrical equipment; phrasal verbs with turn

2.1

Function: reports faults and request action; respond

2.2

Structure: causative have ( have something done) 2 nd

conditional if/unless clause + `d ( would/woulnt); I wish/ if only
+ past tense; verb need + gerund (-ing form) + passive
infinitive

3.2
3.3

19
20

4.1
4.3
13

Regrets

1.2

Phrasal verbs and expressions with make

2.2

Function: criticise and make excuses; apologise and accept

apologies

3.1

14

4.2

Structure: verbs should have/ ought to have; verbs make, let

and be allowed to

Fast rewind

4.3

Revision

Guess who?

1.1

Vocabulary: psysical appearance; personality and mood

adjectives

2.2
descriptive
composition

3.3
3.2
4.2

Function: ask and talk about personality and mood

Structure: verbs must/cant for drawing conclusions; adjective
word order; verbs seem, look, sound + adjective or like/as if

21
22

23
24

Including a
test paper

4.3
4.4
15

Thet emigrated
to the USA

1.2
2.1
3.2

`Heat and Dust`

by Ruth Prawer
Jhabvala

17

Struggle for
survival

24
25
26

Consolidation of language and skills

26

Vocabulary: the environment; phrasal verbs and expressions

with do

27
28

Function: make polite requests, agree or refuse with reasons

Structure: verbs used to/be used to; clauses of purpose with
to/ in order (not) to, so that

4.2

Revision

1.1
1.2
2.3

letters for
application

4.1
Fast rewind
16

Vocabulary: noun formation with endings ing, -ion, -ment,

-abce, -ence, -ness

2.4
3.2
4.2

Function: ask for and make suggestions, agree and disagree

Structure: the passive: all tenses with modals, gerunds annd
infinitives

Between the
26th and the
27th week
the project
Other kind of
school

18

Dont panic!

1.2
2.1
2.3
2.4
3.2

Fast rewind

19

I dont believe
it!

Vocabulary: phrasal verbs and expressions with keep; sports

and locations; sports terms, verbs and people

29
30
31

31
32

33
34

Function: express regrets about the past; make helpful

suggestions
Structure: I wish/if only + past perfect; 3rd conditional: if clause
+ `d (would)/need/could have

4.1
4.2

Revision

1.2

Vocabulary: verbs of speaking: say, speak, talk, tell

1.3

Function: speculate about the past, agree and disagree;

reports

2.2
2.4
3.2

Structure: verbs must have, might have, cant have for

drawing conclusions; reported speech statements and
questions; verbs of reporting: various structures

4.3
4.2
20

Caught in the
Net

1.2

Vocabulary: computer technology; phrasal verbs with run

2.3

Function: express and accept thanks

3.3

Structure: future continuous; future perfect; short answers with

verb + so/not

4.1
4.3

Revision

Fast rewind

21

`Harry ` by
Rosemary
Timperley

Consolidation of language and skills

34

22

Final revision

exercises

35

The 8th grade

finishes
school with
one week
earlier