W. A. Ward Dear English Teachers!

shahlo:
Portfolio? What’s 
(3) 
that
? 
Nargiza:
A portfolio is a 
(4)
file
in which you bring together 
(5) 
diverse 
materials on a theme. A 
(6) 
personal
portfolio, for example, is a 
(7) 
collection
of key materials related to your own development. And 
there is 
(8) 
an academic portfolio 
too.
shahlo:
Academic? What’s the 
(9) 
difference
? 
Nargiza:
Academic portfolios are different from personal ones. some 
programmes 
(10) 
require 
you to hand in portfolios for tutors to 
(11) 
monitor
or mark.
shahlo:
What’s the purpose of a portfolio?
Nargiza:
A portfolio has 
(12) 
several
uses: it keeps related documents 
together, it gives you a chance to evaluate yourself and see your 
personal development. In some vocations you can take it to job 
interviews.
shahlo:
Oh, that sounds interesting. I’ll also develop my personal portfolio 
next then.
Asks students to listen to the tape again and check their answers.
post-listening: Time 10 min.
aim: 
practising the learned vocabulary.
4. 
Ask students to discuss the following questions with their partner:
1. What is a portfolio?
2. What types of a portfolio did you learn?
3. What are the uses of a portfolio?
students' own answers.
Grammar Time: 15 min.
aim:
teaching
 non-defining relative clauses 
in diffirent situations.
Write on the board: 
Teachers, who work very hard, should get paid more
.
Then explain the rule: we use non-defining relative clauses to give extra 
information about somebody or something. In the first sentence on the board” 
who work very hard” is extra information –we are talking about all teachers. On 
defining relative clause: we think all teachers work very hard.
A non defining relative clause can also give extra information about a whole 
idea, not just one noun. 
Last night my sister ate a steak, which was very unusual.
here, the steak isn’t unusual- my sister eating the steak is unusual- maybe she 
is vegetarian.
1.
Ask students to combine two simple sentences to make one sentence using 
non-defining relative clause.

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