10Th GRADE LANGUAGE CURRICULUM / MODERN LANGUAGE ENGLISH L1

GENERAL COMPETENCES (ABILITIES)

1. Reception of oral and written messages in various communicative context
2. Production of oral and written messages, appropriate to various situational contexts
3. Interacting in oral and written communication
4. Transfer and mediation of oral and written messages in various communicative
contexts
SPECIFIC COMPETENCES& CONTENTS
1. RECEPTION COMPETENCE
1.1 Predict/anticipating elements of a text’s content, according to written/ visual clues (starting
from its title/from a visual element)
1.2 Identifying the overall meaning of a text (skimming)
1.3 Identifying key information in an authentic text
1.4 Identifying specific details in oral/written authentic messages (scanning)
1.5 Selecting info from several texts in order to perform a structural task (oral
presentations/projects)
1.6Recognising the logical organization of a paragraph/literary text
2. PRODUCTION COMPETENCE
2.1describe (orally or in writing) everyday activities (description of objects, person, situations)
2.2 recount the subject of a film/book with the help of a given outline/ plan of ideas (story-
telling)
2.3 producing paragraphs/texts on subjects of interest (articles)
2.4 fill in forms
2.5 produce simple pieces of functional writing (brochure, flyers, recipes, menus)
2.6reporting on a group activity/an individual project/on daily activities (oral/written reports)
3. INTERACTION COMPETENCE
3.1 expressing ideas/opinions on themes of interest in a discussion;formulating counter-
arguments in group discussion/dialogue; answering questions on themes of interest, giving
reasons for options (conversation/discussion)
3.2 adapting the form of the message to the communication situation according to the
formal/informal style used by the interlocutor (structured dialogue - interview )
3.3 writing letters on various subjects, to various receivers, with various communicative
purposes (to request for sth, to inform, to persuade, to invite, etc.)(formal/informal letters/emails)
4. MEDIATION AND TRANSFER COMPETENCE
4.1 change certain messages from direct speech into indirect speech/ recount in the present
tense certain listened messages) paraphrasing quotations/ discussing text by offering personal
examples/by comparing to personal experience
4.2 use the bilingual dictionary to translate short functional texts from English to Romanian
4.3 summarize the content of a written text/oral messagein given number of words
4.4 translate short texts into and from Romanian using the dictionary

LITERARY TEXTS STUDIED IN THE 10th GRADE

1. Daniel Defoe –Robinson Crusoe

2. Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels
3. W. Shakespeare -Macbeth
4. S.T. Coleridge – Rime of the Ancient Mariner
5. John Keats – To Autumn/ La Belle Dame sans Merci
6. E. A. Poe –The Tell-tale Heart
7. Nathaniel Hawthorne- The Scarlet Letter
8. Herman Melville – Moby Dick
9. Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
10. Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights