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This activity has students listen to an interview about someone’s favorite activity and write down the details in the interview and how that affects their own motivation for participating in the same activity. Afterwards students must imagine they are giving the interview about a favorite activity and identify which details they would provide and the desired affect on motivation they would like to achieve.

Learning objectives:

• Students will be able to identify key details in an interview and analyze how those details affect the motivation of the audience.

Modes: Interpretive Listening, Presentational Speaking

Materials needed:  Handout, Link to interview

Procedure:

1. Introduce topic and have students listen to an interview with a runner. Students should think about whether or not after the interview they would like to take up running as a hobby.
2. While listening students should note the details in the interview and how those details effect their motivation and why.
3. Have students share some of their ideas with their peers and/or as a class.
4. Now students must pretend they are going to do an interview about one of their favorite leisure activities. They need to think about what details they will include and how they hope those details will affect the motivation of the audience.
5. Students create their own interview and post it on a class discussion board for other students to watch.

Possible extension: Students interview someone in the community about their favorite leisure activity.