FLE Interview Writing
What is the PAFT of an interview?
Fill in the information below.
Purpose Audienc Format To
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To inform or inspire Teens
Watch a celebrity interview
Watch an interview and fill in the analysis grid below.
You can watch one of the three interviews below or choose a different interview with a celebrity of
your choice.
● EyeWitness News interview with Trevor Noah
● Newsround interview with Nadiya Hussain
● Ellen interview with Kim Kardashian
Question Your
answer
Summarise
the interview.
What is the PAFT of
this interview?
FLE Interview Writing
What language
features do you notice
in the interview? Give
examples
What type of language
does the interviewee
use? Give examples.
What is the relationship
between the
interviewer and the
interviewee?
Give examples.
Example response for interview writing
Presenter: Welcome to TalkRadio and I’m joined by Louis Ng, the founder of Football
for Society. Can you tell our listeners a little more about what inspired you to become an
entrepreneur?
Louis: Sure, good to be here, Ted. I guess I’ve always been into the idea that sport can
help in more ways than just improving our individual health but can also bring together
communities and better society as a whole. I mean, well, as a boy I might have gone down
some dangerous paths had I not joined my local football teen (laughs). Thankfully I had a
wonderful coach that pushed me to be the best I could, physically and mentally.
Presenter: He sounds like a great guy!
Louis: He really was… he was like a father to me. Not just to me but to everyone on our
team.
FLE Interview Writing
Analyse the response
What makes this a good interview? You can annotate the example above and then write your
answers in the table below. Try to give examples and quotes in your response.
Question Your
answer
What is the tone? Give Informal
some examples.
What do you
notice about my
language choices?
What do you notice Tight punctuation, Came up with the answer on the spot so use of
ellipses
about my punctuation?
What features make
the interview sound
more spoken?
FLE Interview Writing
Create a list of ‘rules’ for interview writing
Write your list below. You can think about how you should write a interview: what type of
language should you use? What type of punctuation? What do you need to remember to do?
FLE Interview Writing
Interview writing tasks
Pick one of the tasks below to practice your interview writing and then write your response.
EITHER Interview a character from the Lit course about something noteworthy that
happened to them. You could even record it. After this, write down the script and try to
keep some of the spoken language features you heard. Try to make the language
sound similar to the character.
OR Free choice: Recall/re-watch an episode of a well-known person/ character
and make notes about how they speak. After this, write an interview with that
personality/persona about a new topic, trying to make the language sound similar to the
character’s diction and style.
Reflection
Think about your learning in this lesson.
What went well?
How will you improve
your work next time?
