Tematiskais plns 2014./2015. m.g.

CHALLENGES Level 4 (CEF: B1) (105 stundas gad)

8.klase 1. SEMESTRIS
TIME
THEME
GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY
Get Ready includes topics such as intentions, plans and predictions
Week 1
Unit A
Future tenses for
intentions, plans and
Back to School
arrangements
predictions

Week 2

Unit B
Good Advice

Future and unreal

conditionals

TIME
THEME
GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY
Module 1 Communication includes topics such as communication and giving opinions
Week 3
Get Ready
Communication
Communication

Week 4

Unit 1
Animal Talk

Present tenses review

SKILLS
Speaking discussing the list of
events on a schools website
Listening gap fill (School diary)
Reading/Listening for specific
information (a conversation)
Speaking pair work: discussing
the list of events
Writing personal study objectives
Speaking group work: discussing
study problems
Reading for specific information;
matching (problem page)
Speaking pair work: talking
about your study problems
SKILLS
Speaking discussing forms of
communication
Reading gap fill
Listening matching (a dialogue)
Reading answering the question
(an advert)
Speaking agreeing / disagreeing
with the statement; giving reasons
Speaking talking about animals
Reading answering the
questions (a text about animal
communication)
Writing a questionnaire about

NOTES
Explaining the
course structure,
SB p.4-5
WB p.4-5

SB p.6-7
WB p.6

NOTES
SB p.8-9
WB p.7

SB p.10-11
WB p.8-9
Timeout! p.92
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Activity 1

Week 5

Unit 2
Social Networking

Sentence Builder: for and

since

Week 6

Unit 3
www.radiochill.org

Sentence Builder: Negative

Questions

Week 7

Across Cultures 1
Study Corner 1

how people feel about animals

using the cues
Speaking pair work: asking and
answering the questions; reporting
to the class
Word Builder: MultiSpeaking talking about intranet
part verbs
sites
Reading matching;
True/False/ /NI (an article about
social networking)
Writing/Speaking social
networking rules for advice leaflet
using the cues; comparing advices
Opinions
Speaking talking about the body
language
Reading/Listening for specific
information (a dialogue)
Speaking class discussion using
the cues
Listening multiple choice (short
conversations)
Word Builder: Opposites Speaking discussing the photos
Reading True/False (Keeping in
Touch)
Speaking discussing advantages
and disadvantages of types of
communication; pair work: asking
and answering the questions
Project group work: writing an
article about an important type of
communication

SB p.12-13
WB p.10-11
Timeout! p.92
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Activity 2

SB p.14-15
WB p.12-13
Timeout! p.93

SB p.16-18
WB p.14-16

TIME
THEME
GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY
Module 2 News includes topics such as media, news and giving personal news;
Week 8
Get Ready
Past tenses review
In the Media
News
Past Perfect
Unit 4
In Other News

SKILLS

NOTES

Listening note taking (the radio

news)
Speaking asking and answering
questions about the media; giving
your opinion about the statement
Speaking discussing the photos
Reading for specific
information; answering the
question (Globe News)
Reading/Speaking matching;
giving the reasons; pair work:
answering the questions

SB p.19-21
WB p.17-19
Timeout! p.93
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Activity 3

Speaking discussing the photos

Reading matching photos with
the pieces of information;
answering the questions (short
texts)
Speaking group work: talking
about the news
Speaking sharing your opinion
about local TV or radio
Reading/Listening answering
the questions (a dialogue)
Speaking talking about your life
Listening answering the
questions (short conversations)
Reading analyzing an email;
matching; for specific information
Writing an email to a friend

CB p.22-23
WB p.20-21
Timeout! p.93
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Activity 4

AUTUMN HOLIDAY
Week 9

Unit 5
Breaking News

Week 10

Unit 6
Finding News

Week 11

Your Challenge
Understanding
Grammar

Sentence Builder: Linking

with after/before + -ing +
clause

Word Builder:
Compound adjectives

Personal News

Verb patterns

SB p.24-25
WB p.22-23
Timeout! p.94

SB p.26-28
WB p.24-26

Study Corner 2

telling about your news

Reading for specific information
TIME
THEME
GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
Module 3 Save the Planet includes topics such as the environment and landscape and going green
Week 12 Get Ready
Present Perfect and Present
The Environment
Speaking discussing the photos;
Save the Planet
Perfect Continuous
interviewing your partner using
Unit 7
the questionnaire
Going Green
Listening answering the
questions (a dialogue)
Reading for specific
information; answering the
questions (Eco-friendly family)
Writing describing the green
things your family have been
doing and have done recently
Week 13 Unit 8
Sentence Builder: although
Speaking discussing the brands
Fair Trade
and despite
Reading for specific
information; True/False/NI
(Traidcraft)
Speaking group work:
discussing the statements
Week 14 Unit 9
Sentence Builder: Id
Making Arrangements
Speaking discussing the photo
The River
rather / Id rather not
Reading/Listening predicting;
answering the questions (short
dialogues)
Speaking pair work: making
arrangements for going out to two
places at the weekend
Listening gap fill; multiple
choice (a dialogue)
Week 15 Across Cultures 2
Landscape
Speaking pair work: asking and
Word Builder:
answering the questions about
Study Corner 3
Adjectives
landscape
Reading for specific

NOTES
SB p.29-31
WB p.27-29
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Activity 5

SB p.32-33
WB p.30-31
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Activity 6
SB p.34-35
WB p.32-33
Timeout! p.96

SB p.36-38
WB p.34-36

information; True/False/NI
(Nature Holidays)
Speaking group work:
discussing the statements
Project making a poster about
an area or a national park
WINTER HOLIDAY
2. SEMESTRIS
TIME
THEME
GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY
Module 4 Cash includes topics such as money and making a complaint
Week 16 Get Ready
The Passive
Money
Cash
Unit 10
Auction

Week 17

Unit 11
Funny Money

Materials

SKILLS
Speaking discussing the photos
Listening gap fill (radio
programme about teenagers)
Speaking talking about money;
discussing proverbs
Speaking talking about charities
Reading for specific
information; answering the
questions (Welcome to
egiving.co.uk) matching
Writing/Speaking a game
Speaking discussing the photos
Reading for specific
information; answering the
questions (an article)
Speaking group work: memory
game
Writing/Speaking a list of offers
and wants; negotiating the lists;
agreeing on doing business

NOTES
SB p.39-41
WB p.37-39
Timeout! p.96
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Activity 7

SB p.42-43
WB p.40-41
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Week 18

Unit 12
Value for Money

Week 19

Your Challenge
Understanding
Grammar
Study Corner 4

Complaining

Reason linkers: because,

because of, since, as
Articles: the

TIME
THEME
GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY
Module 5 Fashion includes topics such as clothes, hairstyles, fashion and describing people
Week 20 Get Ready
Used to and would
Clothes and Hairstyling
Fashion
Unit 13
Style or Comfort?

Week 21

Unit 14
Desert Flower

Sentence Builder: be like,

look like and like

Word Builder:
Prepositions in common
phrases

Speaking discussing the photo

Reading/Listening for specific
information (a dialogue)
Speaking role play a situation
using the cues: Complaining
Listening completing the table;
matching (shop dialogues)
Reading answering the
questions; ordering the paragraphs
(a letter of complaint)
Writing/Speaking a letter to a
company complaining about
something you bought recently;
discussing the complaints
Reading gap fill (Last minute
holiday deals)
SKILLS

SB p.44-45
WB p.42-43
Timeout! p.97
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Activity 8

Speaking talking about photos

and describing clothes and style
Listening completing the
questionnaire (a street survey)
Speaking discussing statements
Speaking talking about
hairstyles
Reading matching (an article
about hairstyles from the past)
Speaking describing yourself
when you were seven years old
using the cues
Speaking discussing photos;
predicting answers
Reading multiple choice; gap
fill; answering the questions (a

SB p.49-51
WB p.47-49
Timeout! p.98
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Activity 9

SB p.46-48
WB p.44-46

NOTES

SB p.52-53
WB p.50-51
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life story of Waris Dirie)

Speaking pair work: asking and
answering the questions about a
famous celebrity
Week 22 Unit 15
Sentence Builder: looks ...,
Looks
Speaking discussing the photo
Fashion show
looks like..., look ...
Describing people
Reading/Listening answering
the questions (a dialogue)
Writing/Speaking a description
of peoples clothes in the photo;
giving your personal opinion
Listening multiple choice;
answering the questions (short
dialogues)
Week 23 Across Cultures 4
Word Builder: Verbs and
Looks
Speaking discussing photos;
prepositions
giving your opinion
Study Corner 5
Sentence Builder: have
Reading expressing your
something done
opinion; answering the questions
(a text about body art)
Speaking discussing the
statement
Project writing a description of
a famous person
TIME
THEME
GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
Module 6 Sports and Games includes topics such as sports, the Olympics and giving personal advice
Week 24 Get Ready
Speculating
Sports and games
Speaking talking about sports
Sports and Games
Listening putting sports in
Unit 16
chronological order; answering
Games
the questions (sports programme)
Speaking discussing board
games
Reading answering the
questions (The Lewis Chessmen)
Speaking making guesses about
peoples lives past and present

SB p.54-55
WB p.52-53
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Activity 10

SB p.56-58
WB p.54-56

NOTES
SB p.59-61
WB p.57-59
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Activity 11

Week 25

Unit 17
The Olympics

Week 26

Unit 18
The Police Station

Sentence Builder: as well as,

apart from, instead of + noun

Word Builder: Multipart verbs

Giving Advice

using the cues

Speaking talking about the
Olympic Games
Reading for specific
information; note taking;
answering the questions (The
Olympics)
Speaking pair work: asking and
answering the questions about
Olympic events
Speaking discussing the photo
Reading/Listening answering
the questions (a dialogue)
Speaking pair work; role-play a
situation using the cues: choosing
a problem and giving advice
Listening True/False/NI; (a
sports report)

SB p.62-63
WB p.60-61
Timeout! p.99

CB p.64-65
WB p.62-63
Timeout! p.99

SPRING HOLIDAY
Week 27

Your Challenge
Understanding
Grammar

Modals referring to the past

Text Builder:
Organisation; linking
review

Study Corner 6
TIME
THEME
GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY
Module 7 Law and Order includes topics such as crime and punishment
Week 28 Get Ready
Reported orders and requests Crime
Law and Order
Punishment
Unit 19
Order in Court

Reading answering the question; SB p.66-68

gap fill (a sports survey)
WB p.64-66
Writing a report about sports
facilities in your area
Reading matching ( a life story
about Tanni Grey-Thompson)
SKILLS
NOTES
Speaking talking about your
favourite detective stories, films
or TV programmes
Listening matching
(descriptions of the detectives)

SB p.69-71
WB p.67-69
Timeout! p.100
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Activity 12

Week 29

Unit 20
Sherlock Holmes

Sentence Builder: having

done

Word Builder: Idiomatic

expressions

Week 30

Unit 21
The Factory

Sentence Builder: Indirect

questions

Requests

Week 31

Across Cultures 4
Study Corner 9

Word Builder: Word

families

Speaking talking about qualities

detectives need
Speaking talking about
punishments for crimes
Reading- matching; giving your
opinion (a text about crime and
punishment)
Speaking group work: a game
of requests
Speaking discussing the photos
Reading for specific
information; multiple choice;
matching (The Hound of the
Baskervilles)
Speaking pair work: asking
yes/no questions to try and
explain them
Speaking discussing the photo
Reading/Listening answering
the questions (a dialogue)
Speaking pair work: asking for
permission to do things using the
cues
Listening note taking; gap fill
(detectives describing two crimes)
Speaking discussing the photo
Reading for specific information
(Easter Island A Mystery
Solved)
Speaking group work: agreeing
or disagreeing with the
statements; giving reasons
Project writing an article about a
mystery

SB p.72-73
WB p.70-71
Timeout! p.100
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Activity 13

SB p.74-75
WB p.72-73
Timeout! p.101

SB p.76-78
WB p.74-76

TIME
THEME
GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY
Module 8 Imagination includes topics such as paintings, music and fantasy
Week 32 Get Ready
Reported Statements
Adjectives
Imagination
Unit 22
Inspired Genius

Week 33

Unit 23
The Hobbit

Week 34

Unit 24
Success!

Week 35

Your Challenge
Understanding
Grammar

Sentence Builder:
Prepositions + -ing form

Interrupting and
changing topic

Talking about quantity

Text Builder: Time

linking review;
organisation

SKILLS
Speaking describing the
paintings
Listening for specific
information (short descriptions);
answering the questions
Speaking discussing the photos
Reading- answering the questions
(an article about gifted artist)
Speaking reporting about a
book, film or a TV programme
that people have told you about;
giving your opinion
Speaking- talking about fantasy
books or films
Reading for specific
information; ordering the events;
multiple choice (Filming the
Hobbit)
Speaking pair work: discussing
a book to make into a film using
the cues
Speaking discussing the photos
Reading/Listening for specific
information (a dialogue)
Speaking role play a situation
using the cues: interrupting and
changing the topic
Listening True/False (short
conversations)
Speaking discussing the picture
Reading for specific
information; gap fill; matching (a

NOTES
SB p.79-81
WB p.77-79
Timeout! p.102

SB p.82-83
WB p.80-81
Timeout! p.102

SB p.84-85
WB p.82-83
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Activity 14

SB p.86-88
WB p.84-86

Study Corner 8

story)
Writing a story beginning I was
on holiday in when it
happened.
Reading answering the
questions (a text about famous
gallery)