10 Questions for your favourite person
What is this?
If you want to get hooked up on an educational tool that teaches you and your students how to have discussions and be at the same time updated with the latest news of your favourite famous people around, this is the tool for you. I must say I am so excited about this website because I have always found it motivating for students to have real-life examples to emulate.
Why to use it?
• It offers a wide range of interviews with celebrities, politicians, sportspersons, singers, actors, and even eccentric famous individuals. Therefore, it offers a wealth of authentic materials for teachers and learners.
• Much research has shown that learners’ performances and motivation skyrocket when they have target audience to relate to.
• Anticipation and excitement to unravel the secrets of a character and find out the way they think has an unparalleled effect on intrinsic motivation.
• This tool also enhances students’ autonomy in that they will look at these interviews at home without being asked to. Therefore, they will have a decent amount of exposure to English in an authentic framework.
• I have always found it difficult to supplement my conversation courses with authentic materials or stimulate my students to discuss an issue in English. And this tool might be the solution to making students have discussions, create questionnaires, and conduct interviews with their colleagues.
How to use?
• First, set the scene for what this tool is about ‘interviews’. Then, involve your students in decision making about their learning by asking them ‘ Who you would like to ask 10 questions’
• Then, with the help of a projector show them the picture of their chosen character. There will be more than one choice, so try to strike a balance and promise others that you will show their favourite person in the upcoming lessons so that they do not get demotivated. You can also seize the opportunity to stimulate their autonomy by asking them to check them at home.
• Next, introduce only the introduction of the interview and the first question without the answer. Let students guess what the person’s answer will be.
• Make every students write their prediction on a slip of paper and give it to the person they are sitting next to.
• Now, they can listen to the answers.
• Afterwards, they can check their peers’ responses and compare them against theirs. By doing this, teachers will have created a meaningful and purposeful task that is set in authentic settings.
• If students are of a very high level, teachers can optionally let them listen again and record the new words they have learnt, or they can be divided into groups to classify the words they listened to into groups of nouns, adjectives, adverbs.
• Then next stage will be for them to discuss if they have constructed a different opinion of the interviewee after they had seen the interview. If not, let them describe what they have learnt and what is their final opinion of that person is.
• I cannot emphasise this enough, this better be used along with a course book for conversation as a complementary because you want to have a concrete record of what your students are learning and what activities they are doing.
·Finally, students can be divided into groups and create questionnaires for other group members. Then, they conduct interviews with their peers.
The next interview is taken from an inerview with the famous singer Shakira whom a wide segment of young teenagers relate to. You can easily copy any interview or emebd it to your blog on this website:
Limitations:
As always not all learners could have a speedy internet connection at home. Therefore, we should be careful of Digital Bullies who might be intolerant of the technology have-nots.
All activities in this tool should be done purposefully with time limits. Otherwise, students will lay back watch these videos and go back home with nothing to learn.
They must be used with course books dedicated for conversation because they cannot serve as a learning tool on their own no matter how good the teachers or the students.
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