Off to Oz...

PROCESS & RESOURCES - 3
Comparing lifestyles

Do an interview about your trip

You have just returned from your stay in Australia. A local TV station is going to interview you about the experience. Give your opinion about your stay and present the information you found out in Process 2.

One member of each group will make up the interviewer team. (see instructions below)

Interviewee groups:
Prepare and organise what you will say, and also any visuals you can use (drawings, maps, charts, photos, etc.). During the interview you will be asked about the following points:

The differences between Australia and your country

• interesting things you discovered
  
• things that are similar
  
• things that are different

Your opinion:

• good and bad things about your stay, and about the country
  
• what you missed while you were there
  
• what you miss now you have returned

When you are comparing and giving your opinion you can use this language

• I loved …
• What I really liked was (the way / how) ….
• I quite liked (the way / how) …..
  
  
• I didn’t like …
• What I didn’t like was /were …
  When I was there I missed …
• I didn’t miss …… at all.
• Now I miss ….
  
  
• It’s not like here at all because …
• This is different to the situation here because …
• Here …….., but / whereas there ….
• This is also true here, …
• It’s the same here …

Interviewer team:
Prepare questions to ask the groups who have been to Australia. Remember you will need to ask them about all different aspects of the country. To remind you, here is the list of points from Process 2.

• The natural environment (fauna, flora, climate, geography)
  
  
• Culture and lifestyle ( cultural influences, food, customs, how people live and work )
  
  
• Leisure (sport, recreation, free time, music, TV, radio, films)
  
  
• People (origins, history, character, beliefs, famous people )
  
  
• About the country (population, cities, history, politics, industry, economy)

Here are some ways of starting questions

• Can you tell us about …... ?
  
• What do you think is …..?
  
• What is /are the………..like?
  
• What was the most interesting …?
  
• What about the food? Was it …. ?
  
• How about the way …… ?
  
• Here, we ….. . What’s the situation in Australia?

Ways of introducing a new topic in the interview

• Tell us about …..
  
• Let’s move on to ….
  
• Now let’s talk about …..
  
• I’m afraid we have to move on now.
  
• Unfortunately we have to stop here.

Ways of reacting to what the interviewees say

• Really!
  
• That’s interesting.
  
• Fascinating.
  
• Oh, I see.
  
• Do they?
  
• Don’t they?
  
• How strange!
  
• Yes, I understand.
  
• I’m sorry, I don’t understand. Can you explain more?

Prepare a list of questions for each group. Remember they will have information on different aspects of life in Australia. When you have prepared the questions, practise asking them and responding to the answers. Also, how are you going to organise the time of the interview? Remember you have to give each group the same amount of interview time. Who is going to introduce the program? What are you going to say?

Now do the interview:

To make the interview more authentic, video or record the program. You could show your program to other classes.

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