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. Students use the information collected from listening and speaking activities to select a topic and draft and process a piece of expository transactional writing that discusses an issue. Century Speeches - Ed. This unit could be followed up by developing skills of formal debate .