Assessment for Learning Resource Bank

Web-based Learning and Teaching Support

Learning and Teaching Activity – Interviewing Teachers

　

Learning Targets for Key Stage 3:

ISe - to obtain and provide objects, services and information in real and simulated situations
KSa - to provide or find out, select, organize and present information on familiar and less familiar topics

Learning objectives:

Text Types

Vocabulary

Language Items and Communicative Functions

Language Skills

Attitudes

Generic Skills

- interviews
　 　

Occupations
-

a dentist
- a linguist
- a pianist
　 　
Places in Hong Kong
- Clear Water Bay
- Repulse Bay
-

Stanley
　 　
Languages
- French
- Italian
- German

　
- use the simple past tense to talk about past event
- use the simple present tense to express preferences
- Listening
- Speaking
　 　

-

develop

sensitivity

towards language use in

the process of
communication

- communication  skills
- collaboration skills

Related Basic Competency Descriptors:

L5-L-2-S3BC:: Using an increasing range of strategies to understand the meaning of simple texts on familiar and less familiar topics which are delivered clearly and in generally familiar accents
L5-S-3-S3BC: Expressing information and ideas (including personal experiences, feelings, opinions, imaginative ideas and evaluative remarks) with some elaboration
Level of Difficulty

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 remarks

The task integrated listening skills and knowledge about professional, places and speaking skills

Activity

Description

Duration

(mins.)

For students'self-access

Part 1

An interactive activity: Interview with Mr Hall
This activity provides learners with room for autonomy in using various strategies in listening comprehension. They are guided to predict, to make connections between ideas, to use personal experiences and to extract specific information when listening to a simple text on familiar topics.

Task

Michelle is a reporter for the School Newsletter. The editor asked her to collect information about the new teachers of the school. She is interviewing Mr Hall, the new native English-speaking teacher. She is asking him where he comes from, how he became a teacher and where he spends his holidays in Hong Kong.

Listen to the interview carefully and answer the questions.

　

20

Part 2

Activity Sheet

　

An extended activity: Interviewing and Introducing  teachers

Learners, in groups, conduct interview questions. Then they construct an interview with a teacher. Finally, they make a presentation on the information obtained from the interviews.

　

Task

You are members of the "Big Brothers and Sisters Scheme". In order to help the S1 students be more familiar with teachers in your school,

　

1.         Form groups of four.

2.         Determine which teacher to interview.

3.         Brainstorm questions you are going to ask the teacher. Bear in mind questions that are too personal and not suitable for the interview.

4.         Write down the questions in the Interview Record Form below.

5.          Conduct an interview with the teacher.

6.         Jot down information in the interview Record Form.

7.         Finally, introduce the teacher to the S1 students.

　

15-20