Disciplina: Limba englez

Manual: Gold Advanced

2 h / sapt.

Nr.
crt.

1.

2.

3.

4.

PLANIFICARE CALENDARISTIC

Unitate de nvare

Revision

Unit 1
What A Spectacle!

Unit 2
It Takes All Sorts

Unit 3
The Root Of All
Evil?

Coninuturi
Funcii communicative ale limbii
Elemente de construcie a comunicrii

Revising and evaluating Ss knowledge and language skills

Reading Roll up! Roll up!
Vocabulary: Deducing from context, choosing
dictionary, word formation: suffixes;
Writing: drafting;
Listening: Modern Art
Grammar: verb patterns (transitive + intransitive)
Communicative functions
Asking and offering information;
Asking and offering details and explanations;
Characterizing people and actions.

Competene
specifice

Nr. de ore alocate

Saptamna

all

2h

S1

1.1, 1.3.,
2.2.,
3.3.

4h

S2/S3

1.2.,
2.3,
3.2., 3.4.,
4.1.

2h

S4

4h

S5/S6

Reading How to Speed-read, Festivals

Writing: information sheet;
Listening: An Alien?, Away from Home
Vocabulary: Adverbs of manner, words with similar
meaning
Grammar: Noun phrases, modals
Communicative functions
Comparing present states and actions to past ones;
Expressing personal opinions and points of view;
Expressing emotional attitudes.
Reading Rich Kids
Vocabulary: Expressions with carry, compound
adjectives ;
Writing: Informal / formal letters;
Listening: A Mystery;
Grammar: Verb tenses. Articles, relative pronouns
Communicative functions

1.4.,
2.1.
3.3.
4.1.

Observaii

Asking and offering information about phenomena, events,

experiences, actions and professional activities;
Comparing characteristics of different phenomina,
activities, events and processes;
Making proposals and suggestions.

5.

6.

7.

8.
2

Unit 4
The Universal
Migraine

Unit 5
Where Will It End?

Unit 6
The Sporting Life

Unit 7
The Ties That Bind

Reading Sweet Nothings

Vocabulary: similes (like / asas), noun collocations
Writing: Notes, messages;
Listening: Messages;
Grammar: Gerund vs infinitive, modals (advanced
features)
Communicative functions
Asking for and offering advice;
Correcting, encouraging and warning someone;
Characterizing people, actions and facts;
Expressing obligation, necessity and interdiction to do
something.
Reading Cellmates
Vocabulary: science and medicine, collocations
Listening: Cryonics, Dr. Heckyll and Mr Jive (song);
Grammar: Conditionals. Future
Communicative functions
Comparing present states and actions to past ones;
Drawing conclusions;
Expressing conditions.
Reading The Bravest Athletes in the World. Basketball
Favourite.
Vocabulary: Competitive sports, language of gender;
Writing: formal letter, informal note;
Listening: The Future of Sport, No Football for Girls;
Grammar: Future (advanced features), conditional
phrases, the sequence of tenses;
Communicative functions
Characterizing people, actions and facts;
Expressing conditions;
Expressing personal opinions and points of view;
Bringing arguments to support personal point of view.
Reading How the Family Pecking Order Affects You. The
London Eye.

1.1,
2.1.,
3.2.,
4.1.

1.1, 1.3.,
2.2.,
3.3.

1.1.,
2.1., 2.3.,
3.1. 3.3.,
4.1.

1.1., 1.2.,
2.1;

4h

S7/S8

4h

S9/S10

4h

S11/S12

4h

S13/S14

Us

9.

Revision

Vocabulary: Word + prepositions. Commonly confused

words
Writing: leaflet;
Listening: When You Dream;
Grammar: Hypothetical meaning (Wish + )
Linking words: prepositions of space and time.
Communicative functions
Characterizing people;
Expressing emotional attitudes: sympathy, regret, trust;
Expressing intentions, desire
Contents Units 1-7

3.1., 3.2.,
4.1.

all

2h

S15

Nr.
crt.

Unitate de nvare

Revision

10.

11.

12.

Unit 8
As Luck Would
Have It

Unit 9
Where Theres A
Will

Unit 10
The Trials Of
Technology

Coninuturi
Funcii communicative ale limbii
Elemente de construcie a comunicrii

Competen Nr. de ore

e specifice alocate

Saptamn
a

Conditional clauses
The Sequence of Tenses
Modal verbs

all

2h

S16

Reading: The Laws of Freak Chance.

Vocabulary: Synonyms. Word formation (prefixes).
Writing: competition entry;
Listening: Five Bizarre Tales;
Grammar: direct and reported speech
Communicative functions
Asking and offering information about phenomena, events,
experiences, actions and professional activities;
Reporting someones words;
Expressing personal opinions and points of view;

1.1.,
2.2., 2.3.,
3.2., 3.4.,
4.2

4h

S17/S18

1.1., 1.4.,
2.2.,
3.1., 3.3
4.2.

4h

S19/S20

4h

S21/S22

Reading Motivation: The Key to Success. The Art Of Survival.

Vocabulary: expressions with make/get/keep/gain/resolve.
Leisure activities.
Writing: report;
Grammar: the verb, perfect tenses;
Communicative functions
Asking and expressing proposals and making suggestions;
Encouraging someone;
Expressing emotional attitudes;
Characterizing people, actions and facts.
Reading Schoolboy Spy.
Vocabulary: words from other languages, terminology related
to computers;
Listening: Computers, Cyber Dating;
Grammar: it as preparatory subject/object, making
comparisons;
Communicative functions
Asking and expressing proposals and making suggestions;
Comparing characteristics of different phenomina, activities,
events and processes;
Characterizing people, actions and facts;
Expressing emotional attitudes.

1.2.,
2.1;
3.1., 3.2.,
4.2., 4.4.

Observaii

13.

14.

15.

16.

Revision and
Progress Check

Unit 11
Getting Away From
It All

Unit 12
Mind Over
Matter

Unit 13
An Interesting
Business

Contents Units 6-10

Reading The Best Railway Journeys
Vocabulary: expressive description, adverbials expressing
attitude
Writing: brochure;
Listening: Where to sit on a Boeing, On the Slow Train;
Grammar: relative clauses( advanced features), linking words;
Communicative functions
Asking and expressing proposals and making suggestions;
Comparing characteristics of different phenomina, activities,
events and processes;
Characterizing people, actions and facts;
Expressing personal opinions and points of view.
Reading The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Part
Vocabulary: Expressions with take, sound and light;
Writing: article;
Listening: I Dont Remember, Koestler Parapsychology Unit;
Grammar: emphasis with inversion, questions;
Communicative functions
Asking and offering information about phenomena, events,
experiences, actions and professional activities;
Comparing characteristics of different phenomina, activities,
events and processes;
Characterizing people, actions and facts;
Expressing personal opinions and points of view;
Expressing emotional attitudes.
Reading The Wind-up Merchant
Vocabulary: language of business, pharasal verbs with
up/down;
Writing: job application;
Listening: Marketplace Economics;
Grammar: passives, participle clauses;
Communicative functions
Asking and offering information about phenomena, events,
experiences, actions and professional activities;
Comparing characteristics of different phenomina, activities,
events and processes;

all

S23

1.1.,
2.1; 2.3.,
3.1, 3.4.
4.1., 4.5.

4h

S24/S25

1.1., 1.2.,
2.1; 2.2.,
3.2., 3.4.
4.2., 4.5.

4h

S26/S27

2h

S28

1.2.,
2.1., 2.2.,
3.2., 3.3.
4.2

Characterizing people, actions and facts.

17.

Unit 14
Its Only Natural

18.

Unit 15
Its All In The Past

19.

Final Revision

Reading The Tale of a Tiger

Vocabulary: text-referring words, word+prepositions;
Writing: report (2);
Listening: The Tom-cat (poem); Volcanoes (part 2),Weather
(Part 4)
Grammar: reported speech (advanced features), countable
uncountable nouns;
Communicative functions
Reporting someones words;
Asking and offering information about phenomena, events,
experiences, actions and professional activities;
Characterizing people;
Characterizing people, actions and facts.
Reading The Living Dead
Vocabulary: idiomatic language of talikg/communication;
Listening: A World Language;
Grammar: passives (advanced features), have/get something
done;
Communicative functions
Asking and offering information about phenomena, events,
experiences, actions and professional activities;
Comparing characteristics of different phenomina, activities,
events and processes;
Characterizing people, actions and facts.
All Units

1.2.,
2.1., 2.2.,
3.2., 3.3.
4.2

4h

S29/S30

1.2.,
2.1.,
3.2., 3.3.
4.2, 4.4.

4h

S31/S32

all

2h

S33