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WRITING PORTFOLIO

B1+ INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

Name & Surname:


Student number:
Group number:

2023/24 SPRING SEMESTER


SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
ENGLISH PREPARETORY DEPARTMENT
INSTRUCTIONS

1. Do the tasks when you are asked to do so by your instructor.

2. Take the full responsibility of your work.

3. Don't expect your teacher to remind you to complete your missing tasks.

They are your responsibility.

4. Don't cheat or copy from a friend and/or the Internet. If you do so, your

task(s) will not be graded.

5. Always ask for suggestions to your teachers if you need so.

6. Each task is 10 points.

7. Submission date: 01.04.2024


CONTENTS
INTERMEDIATE PORTFOLIO POINT

TASK 0: Me, Language Passport, My English 10 pts. -


TASK 1: Describing a Room 10 pts.
TASK 2: Holiday Messages 10 pts.
TASK 3: An Article 10 pts.
TASK 4: A LinkedIn Profile 10 pts.
TASK 5: An Informal Email 10 pts.
TASK 6: A Restaurant Review 10 pts.
TASK 7: Describing a Building 10 pts.
TASK 8: A story 10 pts.
TASK 9: An Exam Task 10 pts.
Task 0: ME

My Press release
A national newspaper has heard about you and your meteoric rise to Intermediate level.
Before they write an article about your achievements, they have asked to read your

What I’d like people to say about me


Which two of these nouns and which two of these adjectives would you most like
people to use when describing you in five years’ time? You may need to use your
dictionary.

a star

a hero frank

a charmer outspoken
a party animal
Language passport

My school/college
I go/went to college at .
Write the names of some teachers who have helped you. Say why they were good.

School subjects
The subjects I studied:

My favourite subjects:

My most difficult subjects:

I would like to learn more about:

I never want to have any more lessons on:

Examinations, qualifications & experience

Examinations I have passed:

Qualifications I have:

Things I have learnt outside school:

Work experience:

Experience of other cultures (travel, meeting people, reading, etc.):


My languages
My mother tongue is .

What languages can you speak? Complete the table. (1 = just a little, 5 = fluently)

Language:
Speaking 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5
Writing 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5
Listening 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5
Reading 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5
Number of
years studied

These languages would be useful for me to learn in the future:

Circle the best phrase to complete these sentences for you.

I find it very easy / quite easy / quite difficult / very difficult to


learn a language.

I think that the most important thing in learning a language is


to be able to speak / listen / read / write in the new language.

The most difficult thing for me is speaking / listening /reading


/ writing.

I would like to improve my pronunciation / spelling /


vocabulary / grammar / fluency.
My English

My evaluation of my current levels of knowledge and skills in English:

‘
If you study to remember, you will forget, but,
if you study to understand, you will
remember.
Anonymous
Diary

You will find diary sections throughout this Portfolio. These are for you to write
your thoughts while you study the course. How you use it is up to you. You can
answer the question or use the diary space to write down:

• interesting things that happen during lessons or study time.


• important or useful things you learn during the course.
• thoughts about what you are learning and how you are studying.
• things that are easy or difficult for you.
• things that you enjoy or don’t enjoy.
• conversations you have with teachers or other students.

Look at the sample diary. It gives you an idea of the kind of thing you could
write.

I think my understanding of the basic tenses is OK now, but I get a bit annoyed with
myself when I make silly mistakes. For example, I keep forgetting to use the present
perfect and try to say everything in the past simple. I know the rules – it’s just that
sometimes it’s very hard to apply them. There are some other tenses, like the past
perfect, that I just avoid completely because I usually use them wrongly – so this is
another area I need to work on.
I need the exercises in the Student’s Book to remind me of the
things I have to focus on – and I’ve decided that the
thing I really need to do is listen and read as much as I
can outside class to try to get more of a ‘feeling’ for
how the tenses are used.

‘ Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.


Pablo Picasso (Spanish painter, 1881–1973)

’
Task 1: Write the description of your favourite room in four paragraphs.
Task 2: Write short messages to friends for each of the days and times in d.

 The evening before your holiday


 The first morning of your holiday
 The second and third days
 The last evening of your holiday
 The day after your holiday is over
Task 3: Write an article with three tips on one of the following topics:

 How to take good holiday photos


 How to plan a successful holiday
 How to use colour in decorating
Task 4: Write your profile for a site like LinkedIn.
Task 5: Imagine you’re replying to an email from a friend or family member. Write the email.
Use the Useful language to help you.
Task 6 : Write a website review of a café, bar, or restaurant you’ve been to recently.
Task 7: Write a description of a building in your town or city for a tourism website.
Task 8: Write a story. Choose your title and think of some ideas for your topic.

1. Where and when the event/moment happened


2. What was happening at the start of the story
3. What actually happened on that day
4. How you felt about it then, and how you feel now
Task 9: Write and essay for an exam. The topic is:

It is not a good idea to cram the evening before an exam.

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