Students identify and establish a role from a given list eg. They are to argue from this role but present an informed viewpoint. Preparation of material. Allow one or two periods. Students research issue, drafting statements of opinions with supporting evidence.
Interviewer researches and prepares questions.
Teacher conferences individually with students . NZ Year Book , current newspapers, Listener, World Wide Web, CD-ROM, sources such as TVNZ Encyclopedia, Encarta, World Book, other print resources. Students present interviews in groups set up as a studio interview. The whole interview is shown. Each short section of the tape relevant to the questions is shown twice with time allowed for writing answers between showings.