PORTFOLIO 1 FOR B1 IRREGULAR
Q:Skills for Success 3: Listening and Speaking
Q:Skills for Success 3: Reading
6 December 2013
PART I: LISTENING
Students are expected to listen to the audio file that is given to them one week before the
portfolio session several times and to come to the portfolio class ready to answer the
questions about the relevant listening topic. The first part of the portfolio is a while-listening
activity. First, students are given the question sheets. After reading the questions, students
listen to the audio file only once as a whole class and answer the questions while listening.
Note: You will be asked six multiple-choice questions and you are required to answer them
during the portfolio session.
Listening Task: You will hear a man called Toby Merchant talking on the radio about his
job as an engineer with a company called Atkins Engineering. Please focus on the following
questions while listening at home:
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3)
Why do young people not often choose engineering?
What are the disadvantages of the job for Toby?
What was his dream job when he was a student?
PART II: VOCABULARY
Make your own sentences with each one of the following words in the box and write English
definitions of each word on your PORTFOLIO NOTEBOOK. (Bring your portfolio
notebook with you for portfolio sessions)
Your Portfolio teacher will check your portfolio notebook, choose 5 words at random and ask
you to make a sentence about them.
Q:Skills: Listening and Speaking: agreeable(adj), tend to(v), innovation(n), hand in
hand(adv), satisfy(v), attract(v), conscientious(adj), mobile(adj), region(n), surroundings(n).
Q:Skills: Reading and Writing: alternative(adj), chiefly(adv), compete(v),
environmentally(adv), recycling(n), renewable(adj), resources(n), unique(adj), waste(n),
release(v)
PART III: PRESENTATION
Prepare a 2-minute talk on one of the following topics:
1. Think about the Unit Question, “What are the things about your city, or the closest
city, that most fit your personality?”. Refer to pages 150-151 in Q: Skills for Success
3: Listening and Speaking.