W. A. Ward Dear English Teachers!

s:
The Dossier
? What’s that?
T: 
It’s a collection of your course work which shows your level. 
s:
how?
T:
it may include corrected class or homework tests or exams or any pieces of 

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work which illustrates where you are at.
s: 
Can i add extra things?
T:
Yes, of course. You may include many voice or video recordings also. Or any 
part of project work which you have done.
s:
Thank you very much. Now I got it.
answers: 
1. The Passport; 2. The Biography; 3. The Dossier
3. 
Ask students to complete the sentences using the word combinations from 
the box.
answers:
1. A portfolio belongs only to a learner and he can update by adding his own 
creative work
. 
2. the Passport Part of a portfolio contains 
factual information
about a learner.
3. the biography Part may include 
a narrative story 
about something.
4. it also includes 
self-assessment
materials.
5. the Dossier’s Part is a collection of a learner’s course work which shows his 
level
.
6. It may include voice or 
video recordings
.
Play the tape and ask students to check their answers.
post-listening Time: 10 min.
aim: 
practising the learned materials.
4. 
Ask students to discuss the following questions in a group.
1. Have you ever heard above mentioned information before?
2. What differences have you realised between your portfolio and the suggested 
one?
students' own answers.
Grammar Time: 20 min.
aim: 
teaching countable and uncountable nouns.
You may wish to bring some sugar or salt to the classroom. show some sugar 
(or salt) to your students and ask them: What is it? Can you count it? Write on 
the board: 1. there is some sugar here. 2 there are some sugars here.
Cross the second sentence and establish that sugar is uncountable, it has no 
plural. Elicit some other nouns which are like sugar: rice, flour … 
establish that with these nouns the word 
much
is used. Write on the board 
“how much is sugar?” Underline the word 
much
. Ask students to tell other 
examples with uncountable nouns. Ask students what things we can count. 
Possible answers: books, students.
Ask: how many students are there in the classroom? encourage students to 
find difference between this question and the previous question. Underline the 
word 
many 
and 
students
. Say that countable nouns have plural form and the 
word many can be used before them. tell students that 
a lot of
is used both for 

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countable and uncountable nouns. But if a sentence is in a negative form 
a lot of
is usually changed into 
many 
(for countable), 
much
(for uncountable).
tell students to look through the grammar rule and complete the exercises. 
set the time and monitor their work.