PLANIFICARE CALENDARISTICA - LIMBA ENGLEZA - MANUALUL: HIGH FLYER

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A. JOURNEYS PAST AND PRESENT

Grammar: Present Perfect Simple and Continuous; Collective nouns

Reading Skimming - High Flyers; Journeys past and present in London

Writing: stages in writing

Speaking: Get talking: asking for clarification; Describing a picture

Vocabulary: Forms of transport

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B. THE WORLD'S STAGE

Grammar: Position of adverbials; Verbs followed by gerunds

Reading Scanning - Oresteia

Writing: Dialogues

Listening: Listening to conversations

Speaking: Get talking: inviting, accepting, refusing

Pronunciation: Intonation - rise, fall, level

Vocabulary: Drama

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C. GET BETTER SOON

Grammar: Obligation/ advice / prohibition; Passives with two objects

Reading Winter bugs and what to do about them; The enemy within

Speaking: Get talking : offering, accepting, refusing; Expressing trust

Vocabulary: Word watch: aches and pains; Symptoms of illness

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D. REVISION

Are you an optimist or a pessimist?

Grammar: Present Perfect Simple or Continuous, Position of adverbials, Passives, Infinitive or Gerund

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Unit 1: CROSSING BORDERS

Grammar: Past tenses - revis 11311w2213l ion; Negative statements and questions

Reading Predicting style from first paragraph; The new speakers of English; The Global Schoolhouse project

Writing: The structure of an article

Listening: Predicting structure and content of a radio programme; The Young Internationals

Vocabulary: Adapting to a new culture

VII - VIII

Halloween

Unit 2: EXPLORING THE WORLD

Grammar: Be/ get used to; Clauses of concession: even though, despite

Reading Polar expeditions; Phantom travelers

Writing: An informal letter of advice

Speaking: Get talking: negotiating a solution to a problem

Pronunciation: Word stress

Vocabulary: Explorers and expeditions

VIII - IX

Unit 3: THAT'S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR

Grammar: Adjective + preposition combinations; So/ such. that

Reading Pen friend questionnaire; The green - eyed monster; Vision of Danger: Episode One

Listening: Identifying a speaker's attitude; Discussing pen friends

Speaking: Get talking: expressing your attitude

Pronunciation: Using intonation to convey your attitude

Vocabulary: Attitudes and relationships

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Unit 4: KICKS AND THRILLS

Grammar: Indirect questions; Reported speech: revision

Reading Martial arts; Bungee jumping

Writing: A report

Listening: Enquiries about bungee jumping

Speaking: Get talking: expressing concern, reassuring and persuading people

Vocabulary: Word watch: suffixes which change grammatical meaning; Sports and emotions

X - XI

Unit 5: PARENTS IN THE CLASSROOM

Grammar: Reporting advice: advise, recommend, suggest, urge; Preferences and recommendations

Reading: Efficient reading; Teenagers and how to survive them; Vision of Danger: Episode Two

Writing: Designing a poster

Listening: Parents and teenagers report back

Vocabulary: Word watch: easily confused advice/ advise, practice / practice; Family relationships

XI - XII

Unit 6: REVISION

Reading The Elephant Princess

Grammar practice: Past Simple, Past Continuous, Present Perfect, Present Perfect Continuous, Past Perfect, Reported Speech

XII - XIII

Unit 7: DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER

Grammar: Defining relative clauses with prepositions; Non-defining relative clauses

Reading Books can become addictive; Reading a long text - A summary of Jane Eyre

Writing: A contemporary story

Listening: Using key words to aid understanding; Book at Bedtime

Speaking: Presenting a plan of action to the class

Vocabulary: Reading

XIII - XIV

Winter Festivities

Unit 8: PUZZLING PUZZLES

Grammar: Past Perfect Continuous; Possessive forms

Reading: Topic sentences; Flying machines; Vision of Danger: Episode Three

Writing: A dialogue

Listening: Solving a puzzle

Vocabulary: Word watch: combining two nouns

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Unit 9: HOME AND AWAY

Grammar: Conservation camps: you can make a difference!

Writing: A formal letter

Listening: Listening in an intelligent way; Discussing foreign exchanges

Pronunciation: The : / šə/ or / /

Vocabulary: Word watch: countable and uncountable nouns; Conservation and exchanges

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Unit 10: MYTHS AND LEGENDS

Grammar: Expressing purpose: (in order)to, in order/ so as not to, so (that); too enough

Reading Finding specific information; An encyclopedia entry; Annie Oakley

Writing: A biography

Speaking: Get talking: narrating a myth

Vocabulary: Myths and legends

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Unit 11: ROCKING'N'ROLLING

Grammar: need to do, need doing / to be done; Phrasal verbs: transitive separable/ inseparable

Reading: Zooropa and U2; Virtual reality concerts; Vision of Danger: Episode four

Listening: A conversation about a pop concert

Speaking: Get talking: expressing preferences

Vocabulary: Pop concerts and new technology

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Unit 12: REVISION

Reading Today's cub reporters, tomorrow's newshounds

Grammar practice: Past Perfect Continuous or Past Simple

Writing: Formal letter, Biographies

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Valentine's Day

Unit 13: WHAT'S ON THE BOX?

Grammar: Present Simple as future; Stative verbs

Reading: Reviews of television programmes; Staying in: Pick of the day; Vision of Danger: Episode Five

Writing: Reviews: the best of a day's television programmes

Listening: Deciding what to watch on television

Speaking: Get talking : asking for, making and reacting to suggestions

Vocabulary: Types of programmes

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Unit 14: JUST THE JOB

Grammar: Conditional sentences with unless, provided/ providing (that), as long as; Conditions in the past

Reading Words which avoid repetition; Making it as a model; An archaeologist at work

Listening: Guessing what speakers have been talking about

Speaking: Get talking: describing something; Describe your job

Vocabulary: Occupations: a model and an archaeologist

XXI - XXII

Mother's Day

Unit 15:    A SLICE OF LIFE

Grammar: Sequence of adjectives; Phrasal verbs 2: transitive and intransitive

Reading: People in my life : a story ; It's a funny old world!

Writing: Describing someone

Vocabulary: Word watch: adjectives with similar meanings; Descriptive words1

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Unit 16: DREAMS AND WORRIES

Grammar: Wish/ if only + past tense, wish + would; needn't, don't have / need to, needn't have, didn't have/ need to

Reading Dear diary; A Change of Heart

Writing: A summary using linkers; The next scene of a play

Listening: A scene from a play

Pronunciation: Emphasizing words to show your feelings

Vocabulary: Teenage dreams and worries

XXIV

Unit 17: IN THE DEAD OF THE NIGHT

Grammar: Wish/ if only+ Past Perfect, regret + verb-ing

Reading Understanding connectors to predict what follows; Sleeping like a baby; Vision of Danger: Episode six

Listening: Listening and note-taking ; A dream

Speaking: Get talking: degrees of (dis)agreement

Pronunciation: Poetry: tone groups

Vocabulary: Sleeping and dreaming; Word watch: verb+ -ing or to + infinitive

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Unit 18: REVISION

Grammar practice: Present Simple or Present Continuous, Conditional

Reading I can't understand what they're talking about!

Writing: Describe people's general appearance and character. Summaries

XXVI - XXVII

Easter

Unit 19: HOW WAS IT DONE?

Grammar: The Passive voice: revision; modals and impersonal it

Reading The Sony Walkman; Vision of Danger: Episode Seven

Writing: A report on scientific development

Listening: A talk: making use of 'extra' listening time to predict what will follow

Speaking: Get talking: giving a talk;

Pronunciation: Using stress to emphasize meaning

Vocabulary: Gadgets and inventions

XXVII - XXVIII

Unit 20: YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

Grammar: Fixed phrases with prepositions; As, like, as.as if/ as though

Reading Identifying the outlook of a newspaper; The runaway; The Junior Golf World Champion

Speaking: Get talking: taking part in a discussion

Vocabulary: Word watch: prefixes to form (near) opposites; Words which reflect a newspaper's attitude

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Europe Day

Unit 21:    BEHIND THE SCENES

Grammar: Participle clauses; See/ hear somebody do/ doing something

Reading Reading techniques to suit your purpose; Good thinking, Batman; Special effects

Writing: A story

Vocabulary: Word watch: similar words; The cinema and special effects

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Unit 22: LAND OF THE BRAVE?

Grammar: Ability in the past and future: could, be able to, manage to; Phrasal verbs 3: review

Reading: Children of courage; Vision of Danger: Episode Eight

Listening: A teenager's tale

Speaking: Get talking: maintaining a conversation

Pronunciation: Using intonation to maintain/ stop a conversation

Vocabulary: Descriptive words 2

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Unit 23: LET'S KEEP TALKING

Grammar: Future and future in the past; Intentions, decisions and asking for advice

Reading The writer's angle; English as a global language; Keep up your English

Writing: A composition based on fact and opinion

Listening: Language learners'strategies

Vocabulary: Language and language learning

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Children's Day

Unit 24: REVISION

Grammar practice: Passive voice; Present and Participle Clauses, Phrasal Verbs; Future

Reading Twentieth-Century Spies

Reports/ Accounts

Writing: Write a story

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FINAL REVISION

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