PORTFOLIO PROTOCOL THE PORTFOLIO'S OBJECTIVES ARE TO ASIST THE STUDENT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF: + SELF-REFLECTION - on the students’ abilities in the target language. AUTONOMY - developing initiative, becoming an active learner. ‘+ RESPONSIBILITY - students’ become responsible for their own learning, ‘* SELF-ASSESSSMENT - learning to identify their current level and their needs in the target language and then monitor and evaluate their progress. What is expected in the portfolio? + The most important aspect of the portfolio is its role in terms ofa ‘logbook’, which will keep a record of the student's personal work and progress in English. * Students are expected to select 2-3 personal objectives PER SEMESTER, to work towards achieving. (The student can do more if they have enough time, but this is the required minimum.) Since it is your portfolio, you can decorate it and present the information whichever way you like, however the following information must be included so that the marking can be consistent. Please see example below: Explanation: Example of work to be included in Portfo Identify Skill and tevel: LISTENING BI (itis easier to manage the portfolio if itis divided up inco the 5 different skills) Identify the objecti Objective: bulletins and simpler recorded material on topics ‘of personal interest delivered relatively slowly and clearly. The ‘tog-book” Tuesday 3-03-09; Listened to the BBC one-minute news and wrote down the key words to identify Methods used and activities done to_| the main topics. Translate any new vocab. work towards achieving the objectives: Headline stories: Plane crash in Amsterdam © Examples of work done: new | (victims; survivors; pilot; bad weather) vocabulary. Glimate change conference in Antarctic (Global warming; greenhouse effect; cart footprint; EU government pressure) Bank crisis in Poland (Stocks; staff layoffs; savings lost; angry customers) High unemployment in UK {record levels; higher demand for benefits) ‘Thursday 5-03-09: Watched some episodes of the 6* Sex in the City series: «© Reviews offilms/series | Summary of episode: Carrie investigates whether everyone has only one truc love in life. She meets up with the girls for lunch and they disagree,+ Your reflection on the exercise. Was it too difficult easy? Did you enjoy it or not? ‘Samantha doesn’t believe in love, Charlotte thinks that you only have two, and Miranda can’t think straight since having her baby Brady. Its a very funny episode because... ete New Vocab. / expression: Reflection: For now, I can only understand the principle storyline, and I can’t understand all the jokes as they use a lot of word play, and they speak too fast to make out the words. + Reviews of films; other articles on the same topic found on the internet: ‘MUMBA India ‘Rubina All and AzharudinIsmall, two of the ehita actors from the 2008 Best Pleture winner “Siunidog Wilionaire,” have had a honstop celebration during their ime in Hollywood this past week, and the good ‘news will continue whan they return home to Mumba, India. The two young actors will receive new homes, Reuters reported. "These two chlidran have brought laurels {0 the country, and we have beon told that they lve in slums, which cannot oven be ‘classified as housing,” said Gautam Chatterjee, head of the state-run ‘Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority. In addition to new homes, “Shumdog” director Danny Boyle said the children were paid more than the local wage during {liming and a fund has been set up for the children to pay for thoir education, medical ‘emergency expenses and “basic living costs.” Saturday 7-03-09: Watched Shum-dog Millionaire {in the English version, with subtitles. Summary of plot: This was an amazing film written and directed by Danny Boyle, an English film producer. The story was about... My review of the film; I really enjoyed the film because the acting was excellent and since they ‘used real life characters from the slums, itwas very convincing. Hearned a lot about Ind which was interesting, and the storyline was original and both funny and touching .. ‘There has been a lot of controversy in the papers about the conditions in which the children are living in and here is an article I found on the internet: €- New vocab: wurels; expenses Reflection: It was good listening practice because the Indians speak with very strong accents, s0 it was difficult to understand what the actors were saying, but with the subtitles I was able to follow the story and identify some vocabulary. Wednesday 11-03-09; Did some listening exercises on est-lab.comt: Here are the scripts and Fesults that got ‘New vocab is highlighted and translated. Reflection: Some of the listenings were difficult since they mention all the information in the multiple choice answers and itis difficult to identify the correct answer. Moreover they speak very fast. But once I did the gap-fill exercise I was able to understand all the information as I can see the script. There should be a specific number of hours allocated per week, and work should be done REGULARLY, and not one week before the deadline. Friday 13 ‘Thursday 19 Saturday 21 ete ‘Sunday 15. At the end of the semester, you must write a short comment on whether you think you achieved your objective and reflect on what progress you have made in this skill. | semester and I have definitely not Thave done approximately 100 hours liste practice for this objective during this first ed some progress. lam able to catch the main points of any series that I watch now, without subtitles, and‘even lots more detail because I have significantly increased my vocabulary over the past 4 months. I stil have difficult identifying all the words that are said when the actors speak very quickly, but 1 understand a lot more than when I starte September. f enjoyed working on this objective since I could watch series and movies that I want to watch, so lam working and practicing my listening skills at the same time. I think that am starting to identify different accents like American and British.