C/W 4/3/21

Forms of Writing: Interviews

L/O: to show a secure understanding of the

conventions of writing an interview.
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Do now: Read the mark scheme for the 2012 reading
paper. You will use this to mark a model answer.

ALL: demonstrate understanding of explicit meanings. C

MOST: demonstrate understanding of implicit meanings and attitudes. B
SOME: use register appropriate to audience and context. A/A*
This question tests reading …and writing assessment
assessment objectives R1 to R3 (15 objectives W1 to W4 (10 marks):
marks): 1. W1 articulate experience and
1. R1 demonstrate understanding express what is thought, felt
of explicit meanings and imagined
2. R2 demonstrate understanding 2. W2 sequence facts, ideas and
of implicit meanings and opinions
attitudes 3. W3 use a range of
3. R3 analyse, evaluate and appropriate vocabulary W4
develop facts, ideas and use register appropriate to
opinions audience and context

ALL: demonstrate understanding of explicit meanings. C

MOST: demonstrate understanding of implicit meanings and attitudes. B
SOME: use register appropriate to audience and context. A/A*
 Success Criteria- Interviews
When writing an interview, you need to:
• Use a script format to make it clear who is saying what.
• Use names and colons to indicate who is speaking.
• Make sure your questions are open so that the interviewee can
answer in detail.
• One person asks the questions and the other answers. Not an equal
conversation.
• Answers need to be long / detailed; include lots of information that
you have read in the passage.

ALL: demonstrate understanding of explicit meanings. C

MOST: demonstrate understanding of implicit meanings and attitudes. B
SOME: use register appropriate to audience and context. A/A*
 Task 1- Find evidence for each bullet point
 Create a colour coded key. (Eg. purple for bullet one, yellow for
bullet 2, green for bullet 3) 10 minutes
 Go through the text to find evidence for each of the three bullet
points
 Remember bullet point three is usually implicit so the evidence
won’t always be clear and you might have to make sensible
guesses for this one
Extension: What can you infer about Argin’s
character/personality from the information the passage
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provides?
ALL: demonstrate understanding of explicit meanings. C
MOST: demonstrate understanding of implicit meanings and attitudes. B
SOME: use register appropriate to audience and context. A/A*
 Task 1- Check your answers
A1: Worries about the project
• homes/houses lost villages submerged)
• livestock/herds ( goats) [livelihood lost]
• land (river rising) [loss of grazing/loss of property]
• practicalities of moving (furniture, babies, old men
with sticks, herds) [disruption to their lives/unfair-
particularly problematic for some]
• cultural identity (river they’d known all their lives,
babies/children/old men ) [lived there for generations,
changing nature of the river itself and all it represents]
• nature of the new settlement (model of planned
settlement) [too big/too modern]
• neighbours (living among strangers)
[impersonal/breaking up the community]
• compensation (assurance compensation, tallying herds)
[suspicions compensation won’t be paid/lack of trust in
officials/won’t be able to earn money ]
• historical artefacts lost/damaged (det. archeologists,
relics of the
A2: What Argin’s job involves and how well he
thinks he has done it
• giving information (model of village) [benefits of
dam/electricity]
• organising practicalities/problem solving
(neighbours, recording details)[difficult trying to
keep everyone happy/conflicting interests]
• reassuring/sympathising people (assurances)
[understands their concerns]
• liaising with groups involved (teams of
archeologists) [difficulties with numbers
involved/language issues/disagreements with
locals]
• morally strong/not accepting bribes (pastries,
money)
• patient (explaining over and over, visitors to
office) [people did not believe it]
• coping in challenging circumstances (limited
time/money)[difficult to keep everyone happy]
Task 1- Check your answers
A3: Life in the new settlement and Argin’s plans once
the dam is complete
• general difficulties [people may need time to adjust]
• structural benefits modern housing (villages old)
[possibly electric supplied by the new dam]
• social effects (neighbours) [opportunity to end old
feuds /start new friendships]
• cultural effects (archeologists) [artefacts now being
found and preserved as a result of project
• financial effects (merchants) [new markets/more
people to sell too employment opportunities, use
compensation to fund new projects]
• will/will not continue as District Officer (resettlement
programme) [reasons why rooted in passage e.g.
continuing in the role to do the best he can for the
local people and/or fight their corner]

ALL: demonstrate understanding of explicit meanings. C

MOST: demonstrate understanding of implicit meanings and attitudes. B
SOME: use register appropriate to audience and context. A/A*
 Now it’s your turn…
Question 3
A national radio programme interviews Argin about the project to build the
new dam. The interviewer asks Argin the following three questions only:
 
• Can you explain for us the worries people have about the project?
• So what exactly does your job involve and how well do you think you
have done it? 20 minutes
• How do you think life will be in the new settlement – are you planning to
continue as District Officer once the dam is complete?

Write the words of the interview. Base your interview on what you have
read in Passage A, but be careful to use your own words. Address each of
the three bullet points. Begin your interview with the first question.
Write about 250 to 350 words.
Up to 15 marks are available for the content of your answer, and up to 10
marks for the quality of your writing.
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ALL: demonstrate understanding of explicit meanings. C
MOST: demonstrate understanding of implicit meanings and attitudes. B
SOME: use register appropriate to audience and context. A/A*
Self- Assessment- GREEN PENS
USE THE LEVEL DESCRIPTORS
• Read through your work and underline and annotate any of the
features of interview.
• Check spelling punctuation and grammar.
o What have they done well? WWW
o What can they do to improve? EBI

ALL: demonstrate understanding of explicit meanings. C

MOST: demonstrate understanding of implicit meanings and attitudes. B
SOME: use register appropriate to audience and context. A/A*