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>> An interview can help generate ideas too.

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How so? What do you think?

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>> You get students interacting
and those students who doesn't know

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about the other students spring break is
naturally gonna ask the questions you would want

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them to answer in a written assignment.

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>> Exactly.

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What else does it make the students aware of?

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>> An audience.

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>> An audience.

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Exactly. Pardon me?

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>> There's a meaningful task.

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They're communicating.

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>> Exactly.

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How many of you use activities,
interview activities in class?

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Do you think students are interested
in each other, in each other's lives?

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Yeah. [Laughter] They are not?

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No? How come?

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>> I don't know.

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I just-- when I do interview
activities, they-- they don't--

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they just kind of read from a script.

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They're not really interested in
actually engaging in a conversation.

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>> How interesting.

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Do they answer these questions
beforehand already,

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maybe from their own perspective
and then share in class?

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>> Yeah.

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>> Okay, 'cause that could be a
function of language proficiency too.

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>> I think that's what it
is, they're basic level.

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>> Maybe they already know each other too well?

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>> Ah, that's possible.

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[ Simultaneous Talking ]

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>> They already know the answer, so
this one is kind of fake interview.

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>> Aha, a very good point.

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>> But to avoid that, you
can mix them up every time.

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So, don't have them paired
up in the same [inaudible].

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>> Yeah, like you guys are group A, you guys
are group B. Now you actually have to talk

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to somebody on the other side of the
table instead of just with your partner.

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Very good.

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So here they could have interview
with partner about winter activities.

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You can have specific questions
especially for lower proficiency levels.

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You can have the students generate the questions
as a group beforehand, as a second activity

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in that series of activities
that culminate in a writing task,

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and then you want to have a second one.

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You want to focus on something that
was funny, something that was engaging,

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something that really grabs
the students' imagination.

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So not just the questions by
themselves but try to do something--

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was there something that
happened that was weird?

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Now, was there something that you would never
wanna share with anybody else and now share it?

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Yeah? [Laughter]