Television Questionnaire

A) Pair work.

D) Summarize in your own words what you believe to be the best technique for interviewing people (see Appendix, p. 292).

11. Read the following extract on the use of interviews in the foreign lan­guage classroom:

The success of an interview depends both on the skill of the interviewer, on his ability to ask the right kinds of questions, to insist and interpret, and on the willingness to talk on the part of the person being interviewed. Both partners in an interview should be good at listening so that a question-and-answer sequence develops into a conversation.

In the foreign language classroom interviews are useful not only because they force students to listen carefully but also be­cause they are so versatile in their subject matter.

Before you use an interview in your class make sure that the students can use the necessary question-and-answer struc­tures. A few sample sentences on the board may be a help for the less able.

As a rule students should make some notes on the ques­tions they are going to ask and on the answers they get. If they write down all the questions in detail beforehand they have a questionnaire. Survey with the help of a questionnaire is one of the easiest ways of interviewing people.

Student A:

You are doing research into the types of television pro­grammes people watch. You stop people in the street to ask them questions and write down their answers. Student B is a passer-by.

1.How many hours less than 5 hours

a week do you 5-10 hours

spend watching 10-15 hours

television? 15-20 hours

more than 20 hours

2. What sort of programmes do you like watching?

3. Are there any sorts of programmes you don't like?

Like	Dislike

the news

discussion programmes

documentaries

plays

films

serials

quiz shows

classical music programmes

pop music programmes

children's programmes

variety shows

sports programmes

others

4. What is your favourite programme?

5. Are there any sort of programmes you would like

a) more of? b) less of?

You can begin like this, "Excuse me, I am doing research into the types of television programmes people watch. Can I

ask you some questions about television?" And don't forget to finish with, "Thank you very much for answering my ques­tions."

Student B:

Student A is going to ask you questions about the types of television programmes you watch. Answer his/her questions. Before starting, here are some of the most common types of programmes on television: the news, films, discussion pro­grammes, quiz shows, pop music programmes, documentaries, classical music programmes, serials, plays, children's pro­grammes, variety shows, sports programmes.

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