>> An interview can help generate ideas too.
How so? What do you think?
>> You get students interacting and those students who doesn't know
about the other students spring break is naturally gonna ask the questions you would want
them to answer in a written assignment.
>> Exactly.
What else does it make the students aware of?
>> An audience.
Exactly. Pardon me?
>> There's a meaningful task.
They're communicating.
>> Exactly.
How many of you use activities, interview activities in class?
Do you think students are interested in each other, in each other's lives?
Yeah. [Laughter] They are not?
No? How come?
>> I don't know.
I just-- when I do interview activities, they-- they don't--
they just kind of read from a script.
They're not really interested in actually engaging in a conversation.
>> How interesting.
Do they answer these questions beforehand already,
maybe from their own perspective and then share in class?
>> Yeah.
>> Okay, 'cause that could be a function of language proficiency too.
>> I think that's what it is, they're basic level.
>> Maybe they already know each other too well?
>> Ah, that's possible.
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>> They already know the answer, so this one is kind of fake interview.
>> Aha, a very good point.
>> But to avoid that, you can mix them up every time.
So, don't have them paired up in the same [inaudible].
>> Yeah, like you guys are group A, you guys are group B. Now you actually have to talk
to somebody on the other side of the table instead of just with your partner.
Very good.
So here they could have interview with partner about winter activities.
You can have specific questions especially for lower proficiency levels.
You can have the students generate the questions as a group beforehand, as a second activity
in that series of activities that culminate in a writing task,
and then you want to have a second one.
You want to focus on something that was funny, something that was engaging,
something that really grabs the students' imagination.
So not just the questions by themselves but try to do something--
was there something that happened that was weird?
Now, was there something that you would never wanna share with anybody else and now share it?
Yeah? [Laughter]