Chris Heyd
GRADE LEVEL: | JHS All |
SKILLS: | Listening, speaking, reading |
TIME: | Average: 2-3 minutes/student |
MATERIALS: | Worksheets, quiet room |
OBJECTIVES: | To practice answering questions in a formal setting, to practice Western manners, to evaluate students' listening/speaking abilities |
PROCEDURE:
NOTES:
Marks for Manners (1 point each, 5 points max)
Greeting | Must be in English and said before the ALT speaks |
Handshake | 'Dead fish’ and ‘two-handed’ handshakes get no points |
Sit | At first, I had many students stand through the entire interview |
Smile | While listening to/answering questions |
Eye contact | While listening to/answering questions |
Questions:
For this information sheet, we had just finished comparatives/superlatives so I asked the following questions (I changed the names and adjectives from time to time because it gets mind-numbing asking 180 students!):
Does Miki Ando snowboard?
Where is Aiko from?
Is Nishitani older than Ando?
Who is the smallest?
Who do you think is the cutest?
I ask one time and will only repeat the question if asked by the student. (e.g. “Once more, please.”) During the interview, I use no Japanese and basically ignore any Japanese that is spoken to me.
Marks for Answers: (3 points each, 15 points max)
If the student is silent for about 20 seconds, answers in Japanese or says “I don't know” they receive zero points. An answer in English that is wrong or makes no sense receives one point. An answer in English that is grammatically wrong but conveys the correct information in a way that is understandable gets two points. A perfect answer gets three points.
I have a clipboard that holds the student’s mark sheet and I simply circle the marks as I am doing the interview.
Worksheets/Handouts:
http://teachingactivities.pbwiki.com/f/interviewtesthandout_cheyd.doc
The handout for the students
http://teachingactivities.pbwiki.com/f/interviewtestmarksheet_cheyd.doc
The mark sheet used by the interviewer