Scoala

Disciplina: Engleza
Profesor:
Clasa: a VIII-a
Manual: High Flyer Upper Intermediate
Editura: Pearson Education Longman
Nr. ore/saptamana: 2
Anul scolar: 2009-2010

PLANIFICARE CALENDARISTICA
Nr.
Crt.

Learning
Units

Specific
Competences

Contents

Hours

Week

Observations

1.2
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4*
4.2
1.3
2.4*
3.1
3.2
3.4

- Personal universe (tastes

and preferences, a healthy
life)
- The verb

W1

Oral examination;
Work in class

- Progress and changes:

inventions and discoveries,
forms of transport
- Stages in writing
- Present Perfect Simple and
Continuous
- Collective Nouns
- Initial Test
- Drama: Oresteia
- Dialogues: Intonation-fall,
rise level
- Position of adverbials
- Verbs followed by gerunds
- Personal universe (a

W2

Oral examination;
Work in class

W3

Class activities;
Homework

W4

Systematic

SEMESTRUL I
1.

Lets
remember!
Revision

2.

Unit A
Journeys past
and present

3.

Unit B
The worlds a
stage

4.

Unit C

1.2
2.1
2.2
3.2
3.4
2.1

5.

Get better
soon

2.3
2.4
3.2
3.3
3.4

Revision

2.2
2.3
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
4.2
4.3

6.

Crossing
borders

2.2
2.3
3.1
3.2
4.4*

7.

Exploring the
world

1.2
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4*

8.

Thats what
friends are
for!

2.2
2.4*
3.1

healthy life): Winter bugs

and what to do about them,
symptoms of illness, aches
and pains.
Obligation/Advice/Prohibitio
n
- Passives with two objects
- Revision and evaluation
- Test paper

-The new speakers of

English; Adapting to a new
culture
- The structure of an article
- Past tenses: revision
- Negative statements and
questions
- Explorers and expeditions:
Plar expeditions, Phantom
traveler
- An informal letter of advice
- Be/Get used to, Clauses of
concession: even though,
despite
- Attitudes and relationships;
Pen friend questionnaire
- Using intonation to convey

observation;
Oral/Written
examination;
Class activities

W5
Systematic
observation;
Oral/Written
examination;
Work in class;
Homework

W6

Oral/Written
examination;
Work in class/at
home

W7

Oral/Written
examination;
Work in class

W8 W9

Class activities;
Oral examination;
Work in class;

3.2
3.4
9.

Kids and
thrills

2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4*
3.2
3.4

10.

Parents in the
classroom

1.2
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4*

11.

Revision

12.

Dont judge a
book by its
cover!

13.

Puzzling
puzzles

your attitude
- Adjective + prepositions
combinations
- So/suchthat
- Sports and emotions:
bungee jumping, martial arts
- A report
- Indirect questions.
Reported Speech: revision

Homework

W9
W10

Oral/Written test;
Systematic
observation;
Homework

- Family relationships;
Teenagers and how to
survive them
- Designing a poster
- Reporting a poster

W10
W11

2.3
3.1
3.2
3.4
4.3

- Revision and evaluation

W11
W12

2.1
2.2
2.3
2.48
3.2
3.4
4.1
2.4*
3.2

- Books and how they can

become addictive
- Defining relative clauses
with prepositions
- Non-defining relative
clauses

W13

- Solving a puzzle
- Past Perfect Continuous

W14

Oral/Written
examination in
class;
Systematic
observation;
Class activities;
Homework
Oral/Written
examination in
class;
Systematic
observation;
Work in class/at
home
Oral/Written
examination in
class;
Systematic
observation;
Work in class/at
home
Oral/Written
examination in

14.

Home and
away

15.

Myths and
legends

16.

Rockingn
rolling

17.

Revision

3.4
4.2

- Possessive forms

1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
2.4*
3.2
3.4
4.4*
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4*
3.2
3.4
2.1
2.2
2.3
3.2
3.4

- Conservations and
exchanges: discussing
foreign exchanges
- A formal letter
- A, an, the, zero article

W15

- Myths and legends

- Expressing purpose (in
order) to in order/so as not
to, so (that) too, enough

W16

- Pop concerts and new

technology; Virtual reality
concerts; Zooropa and U2
- Need to do, need doing/to
be done; phrasal verbs 1:
transitive
separable/inseparable
- Revision and evaluation

W17

W18

- Types of programmes,
deciding what to watch on
television

W1

2.3
3.1
3.2
3.4 4.3

class;
Systematic
observation;
Work in class/at
home
Oral/Written test;
Systematic
observation;
Homework

Oral/Written
examination in
class;

SEMESTRUL II
18.

Whats on the
box?

1.4
2.4*
3.1

Oral/Written test;
Systematic
observation;

19.

Just the job

20.

A slice of life

21.

Dreams and
worries

22.

In the dead of
the night

23.

Revision

3.2
3.4
4.2
1.4
2.4*
3.1
3.2
3.4

- Present Simple as future

Stative verbs

Homework

- Occupations: a model and

an archeologist; describing
your job
- Conditional sentences with
unless , provided/providing
(that, as long as. Conditions
in the Past
- People and their lives;
describing someone
- Sequence of adjectives
- Phrasal verbs 2: transitive
and intransitive

W2 W3

W3 W4

- Teenage dreams and

worries
- Wish/If only + past tense
- Wish + would neednt,
dont have/need to, neednt
have, didnt have/need to.

W4 W5

1.2
1.3
2.2
2.3

- Sleeping and dreaming

- Poetry: tone groups
- Wish/if only + Past Perfect
- Regret + vb.-ing

W6

3.1
3.2
3.3

- Revision and evaluation

- Test paper

1.4
2.4*
3.1
3.2
3.4
4.3
2.4*
3.1
3.2
3.4
4.2

W7 W8

Oral/Written
examination in
class;
Systematic
observation;
Work in class/at
home
Oral/Written test;
Systematic
observation;
Homework
Oral/Written
examination in
class;
Systematic
observation;
Work in class/at
home
Oral/Written
examination in
class;
Systematic
observation;
Work in class/at
home
Oral/Written
examination in
class;

24.

How was it
done?

25.

Young people
in the news

26.

Behind the
scenes

27.

Land of the
brave?

28.

Lets keep
taking

3.4
4.2
4.3
3.1
3.2
3.4
4.2
4.3
1.3
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4*

- Gadgets and inventions

- A report on a scientific
development
- The passive voice

W9
W10

Oral/Written test;
Systematic
observation;
Homework

- Newspapers, identifying the 2

outlook of a newspaper
- Fixed phrases with
prepositions
As, like, asas, as if/as
though

W10
W11

1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
3.4
4.1
1.2
1.3
2.2
2.3
3.4

- The cinema and special

effects
- Participle clauses
See/hear somebody
Do/doing something

W11
W12

Oral/Written
examination in
class;
Systematic
observation;
Work in class/at
home
Oral/Written test;
Systematic
observation;
Homework

1.3
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4*
3.4
4.3

- Language and language

learning. Language learners
strategies
- Future and future in the
past; Intentions, decisions
and asking for advice

- Brave teenagers
- Using intonation to
maintain/stop a conversation
- Ability in the past and
future. Phrasal verbs: review

W13
W14

W14
W15

Oral/Written test;
Systematic
observation;
Homework
Oral/Written
examination in
class;
Systematic
observation;
Work in class/at
home

29.

Revision

3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
4.2
4.3

- Workbook
- Final Evaluation
- Exercises
- A composition My perfect
holiday

W16
W17

Oral/Written
examination in
class;