Monday, January 31 - AM Intermediate
WU: Is there a famous person (including from history) that you would like to interview? - Use all four different types of questions, students answer in pairs, and rotate partners.
This turned out to be too difficult a task. So the students just shared the names and a brief explanation of who they chose:
MD Naseer - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1st president of Bangladesh)
Annibal - Alberto Santos-Dumont (the inventor of the airplane :)
Burcin - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (first president of Turkey
Francisco - Pablo Neruda (Chilean poet)
SiriChai - Bhumibol Adulyadej (previous president of Thailand - also called ‘the Great’)
Daniela - a folk artist from Honduras
Then we reviewed the different types of questions, plus the terms interview - interviewer - interviewee
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On the board the students collected basic information questions to ask their classmates. After interviewing each other, they identified the questions as DR = directed response, Y/N = yes/no, follow-up, scale, OE = open-ended questions.
What’s your name? - DR
Where do you live? - DR
Where are you from? - DR
Are you married or single? - DR
(Are you married?) - Y/N
Do you have children? Y/N
How many children do you have? - Follow-up Q and DR
(Are you single?) - Y/N
Do you have siblings? - Y/N
How many siblings do you have? - Follow-up Q and DR
How old are you? - DR
How long are you staying in the USA? - DR
Do you like it here? - Y/N
On a scale of 1-10 how much do you like it here? - SQ
Do you like the weather in Florida? - Y/N
Do you like BBQs? - Y/N
What is your opinion of American food? - OE
