ENGLISH LANGUAGE SYLLABUS

2015 - 2016
TEACHER - ANCA DSCLIUC
CLASS 9th GRADE
TEXTBOOK CLICK ON 4
NO.
1.

UNIT / LESSON
REVISION

2.

UNIT 1 Theres no
place like home

3.

UNIT 2 A rolling
stone gathers no moss

4.

TOPIC AND VOCABULARY

Talking about summer holidays

MODULE 1
Dwellings, daily routines, houses,
furniture and appliance, everyday
activities
The Smart Way to live
A Traditional British Craft
A letter of invitation to a friend
An ad for a house
Holidays, weather, travel, means of
transport
Welcome to Mexico
Quebec: Winter Festival; Edinburgh
Military Tattoo
An article describing a place, a festival
in your country
A promotional poster for your country

MODULE 1 SELF-ASSESSMENT

WEEK(S)
S1-14-18.09

S2-21-25.09
S3-28.09-2.10

STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS

Hobbies and pastimes
Tenses
Predictive test
Present tenses
Adverbs of frequency, of time
Stative Vs
Phrasal Vs: break, build

S4-5-9.10
S5-12-16.10

Future tenses
Conditionals: type 0 and I
Definite article
Phrasal Vs: call, check

S6-19-23.10
S7-26-30.10

Progress test

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MODULE 2
Milestones and memories
S8-2-6.11
Describing people
S9-9-13.11
Education
Physical appearance, character, stages
in life, emotions and feelings
Florence Nightingale: The Lady with
the Lamp
Charlotte Bront: Jane Eyre (extract)
A narrative
An article describing your countrys
national hero
UNIT 4 Health is
Health, feelings, medicines,
S10-16-20.11
better than wealth
experiences, emotions
S11-23-27.11
Traditional folk medicine
The St John Ambulance Brigade
An assessment report
An article about a voluntary
organisation in your country
MODULE 2 SELF-ASSESSMENT
S12-30.11-4.12
S13-7-11.12
BEFORE THE
Talking about winter holidays
S14-14-18.12
HOLIDAYS
MODULE 3
UNIT 5 Be clean, be
Environment, endangered species,
S15-11-15.01
green
conservation
S16-18-22.01
Birds in danger
S17-25-29.01
Herman Melville: Moby Dick: Or the
S18-1-5.02
Whale (extract)
A poster about an endangered species
UNIT 3 Remember
days gone by

Past tenses
USED TO / WOULD
Phrasal Vs: bring, carry

Modals
Making deductions
Q tags
Phrasal Vs: come, die

Progress test
Term test paper (L1)
Customs and traditions
Christmas carols
Comparisons
Too / enough
-ING form / infinitive
Phrasal Vs: do, draw

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An article providing solutions to

problems
UNIT 6 Necessity is
Technology, computers, robotics
the mother of
SDR-4X: King of the Dance Floor
invention
Jules Verne: 20,000 Leagues under the
Sea
A letter of complaint
An ad for a robot
An inventors biography
MODULE 3 SELF-ASSESSMENT

12.

UNIT 7 On the
Market

13.

UNIT 8 First come,

first served

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S19-15-19.02
S20-22-26.02

S21-29.02-4.03
S22-7-11.03

MODULE 4
Shopping, clothes and accessories,
S23-14-18.03
services and complaints
S24-21-25.03
Markets around the World
A Proud Tradition
A transactional letter applying for a job
An article describing a market, the
national dress

Food and drinks, eating habits, cooking

utensils, tastes
A Change for the Better?
R. M. Ballantyne: Coral Island (extract)
A narrative descriptive article of a visit
to a place
MODULE 4 SELF-ASSESSMENT
MODULE 5
UNIT 9 Just for the
Sports and leisure, team sports,
fun of it
entertainment

S25-28.03-1.04
S26-4-8.04

Order of adjectives
Passive voice
Relative clauses
Relative pronouns / adverbs
Phrasal Vs: give, go

Progress test

Reported speech (I)

Causative form
Phrasal Vs: fall, feel

Countable / uncountable nouns

Quantifiers
Reported speech
Phrasal Vs: get

S27-11-15.04

Progress test

S29-4-6.05
S30-9-13.05

Conditionals: type II and III

Wishes

S31-16-20.05

WOULD RATHER
Phrasal Vs: hit, hold

S32-23-27.05
S33-30.053.06

Future perfect simple and continuous

Linking words / phrases
Quantifiers
Phrasal Vs: keep, knock, look
Term test paper (L1)

17.

Olympic Games: A Human Success

Story
A Magnificent Tribute to Sports and
Entertainment
An opinion essay
A sports day project
A descriptive article about a stadium
UNIT 10 Breaking
Media
News
Disasters
Media Movers and Shakers
R. L. Stevenson: My Shadow
A short biography
A proposal report
MODULE 5 SELF-ASSESSMENT

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FINAL REVISION

S35-13-17.06
S36-20-25.06

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Communication points (revision)

Grammar tenses
Gerund vs. infinitive
Passive voice
Reported speech
Conditionals

S34-6-10.06

Progress test
Revision exercises and tests