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How Do I Use the Interview Activity?

What is the Interview ? Next, we have students do a communicative exercise in which they ask the same Yive Warm-up Survey questions to one or more partners, and record their responses in note form.. How do I use this activity?

1. To prepare for this, students must Yirst write out their responses to the questions in full sentences, and add reasons or opinions where possible. This Yirst time you do this, it might be a good idea to model one or two written responses on the board (you will Yind examples in the Teacher’s Manual). 2. Once all students have completed the survey, the teacher might ask some students to read out their written responses. (alternatively, the teacher might go around to individual students and check written responses individually) 3. Students Yind a partner and ask Questions 1-5 of the survey, taking down their partner’s responses in note form. They then move onto a second, and (if time permits) third partner. → OPTION: Before starting the actual interview, teachers can demonstrate how to take notes, by using the example interview available on the TEACHER section of the website (where you will Yind an audio track and script). The content of this interview corresponds to the example notes in the top row of the interview table in the textbook. 4. Finally, students can look at their notes and compare their answers with their partners’. They can then write or say a

short statement about how similar (or different) their answers were to their partners’. For example, if two of their answers were the same, they could say, “Our answers were mostly different.” If four or more were the same, they could say, “Our answers were largely the same.” The fact that students write their own answers to the warm-up survey BEFORE sharing them with others means that they are discouraged from deliberately “matching” their answers to those of their partner. This is quite a common cultural habit in unscripted Japanese conversation or discussion. Once their responses are “locked in” (written down), they are more likely to reYlect the true diversity within the class. Time required : 25~35 minutes (depending on number of interview partners) OPTION Є WRITING/SPEAKING In advanced level classes, once all students have completed their interviews, the teacher might have a few individual students report on the responses they received from one or more partners. This might be done orally or in written form, but in either case the object is to have students reconstruct full sentences from their notes. NB: If teaching online, this can be done anonymously to save the embarrassment of one’s answers being accessible to the entire class. 13