The document provides information and examples about interviews, including defining an interview as a conversation where an interviewer asks questions to obtain facts from an interviewee. It then provides an example role play interview between an interviewer and interviewee, where the interviewer asks questions about the interviewee's past school and subjects to practice conducting an interview. The role play interview is used to demonstrate asking clear and relevant questions to obtain accurate answers from the interviewee.

2. UNIT FOUR
Special Education
Speaking

3. We are going to watch a video clip.
Tell me what the teacher and student is doing.

4. ??
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5. What is an interview?
An interview is a conversation
between two or more people
where questions are asked by
the interviewer to get facts or
statements from the
interviewee.

6. Interviewer
- a person who asks, takes down important
notes and information from the person being
interviewed
Interviewee
- a person who is interviewed, answers the
questions asked by the interviewer

7. interviewer interviewee
-a person who
asks, takes down
important notes
and information
from the person
being
interviewed
-a person who is inter
viewed, answers the
questions asked by
the interviewer

8. WH-questions

9. Now, we will have an actual interview!
You may ask me anything about myself. I
am going to be the interviewee and you
are the interviewers. 

11. Task 1. The questions in the following interview have
been left out. Fill in the blanks with the right question.
1. What were your subjects then?
2. What was your timetable?
3. What about homework?
4. Which lower-secondary school did you go to?
5. What part of school life didn’t you like then?
6. Can you tell me about the tests and examinations at your
school then?
7. What did you like best about your school then?

12. Interviewer: (A) _________________________________________
Hanh : I went to Long Bien Lower-secondary School in Gia Lam,
Hanoi.
Interviewer: (B) _________________________________________
Hanh : My subjects were Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Literature,
Biology, History, Geography, English, Information Technology and
Physical Education.
Interviewer: (C) _________________________________________
Hanh : Well, I went to school in the morning and I often had five
classes.
Interviewer:(D) _________________________________________
Hanh : Well, we had different kinds of tests, you know. Oral tests,
fifteen-minute tests, forty-five minute tests and the final
examination at the end of the semester.
Which lower-secondary school did you go to?
What were your subjects then?
What was your timetable?
Can you tell me about the tests and examinations at your school then?

13. Interviewer : (E)_______________________________________
Hanh : It’s different with every teacher. Some liked to give a lot of
homework and others didn’t.
Interviewer : (F) ______________________________________
Hanh : To be honest, I liked my school a lot but if I could change
one thing, it would be the breaks between the classes. They
were too short.
Interviewer : (G) ______________________________________
Hanh : I liked everything in my school, you know. Well, of course,
not the breaks as I’ve said. I liked my teachers, my friends and
the different activities at school then.
What about homework?
What part of school life didn’t you like then?
What did you like best about your school then?

14. Interviewer: (A) Which lower-secondary school did you go to?
Hanh : I went to Long Bien Lower-secondary School in Gia Lam, Hanoi.
Interviewer: (B) What were your subjects then?
Hanh : My subjects were Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Biology, History, Geography, English,
Information Technology and Physical Education.
Interviewer: (C) What was your timetable?
Hanh : Well, I went to school in the morning and I often had five classes.
Interviewer:(D) Can you tell me about the tests and examinations at your school then?
Hanh : Well, we had different kinds of tests, you know. Oral tests, fifteen-minute tests,
forty-five minute tests and the final examination at the end of the semester.
Interviewer : (E) What about homework?
Hanh : It’s different with every teacher. Some liked to give a lot of homework and others didn’t.
Interviewer : (F) What part of school life didn’t you like then?
Hanh : To be honest, I liked my school a lot but if I could change one thing, it would be the breaks
between the classes. They were too short.
Interviewer : (G) What did you like best about your school then?
Hanh : I liked everything in my school, you know. Well, of course, not the breaks as I’ve said. I liked
my teachers, my friends and the different activities at school then.

16. INTERVIEW. . .
Elsa, an elementary pupil asks a Grade 10 High School student of Tra Vinh
University Laboratory School about his school. Her questions are:
a. What is your name?
b. What is the name of your school?
c. What grade are you in?
d. What time does your class start? What time does it end?
e. How many subjects do you have in your school? What are your subjects?
f. What sports do you play at school?
g. What do you like best about your school?
h. Is there something you don’t like at your school?

17. Time is up!

18. How important is asking correct
questions in order to get correct
answers?

19. It is important to ask correct questions to the
interviewee in order to get the right information
we need. When we happen to ask wrong
questions, the interviewee might be confused
and might give incorrect information instead.