Materials for the lesson

1. Various clothing brought by every pupil according to the person he/she should impersonate (one per pupil).

2. A wireless microphone which could be connected to loud speakers.

3. A hat with numbers written on small piece paper which matches pupils in the class, divided by couples (e.g. 20 pupils – 10 couples etc)

4. Two small statuettes ‘Golden microphone’ or similar

Layout of the classroom

The classroom is organized as a ‘’tv studio’’. In front of the classboard 2 chairs are arranged as in tv studio. A wireless microphone and loudspeaker should be arranged there too. Rest of the room is in its normal order.

Phase 1

This lesson requires a preparation from the day before.

One or two days before, at the end of previous language lesson, the teacher explains the rule of the game and ask pupils to prepare a task by couples. Couples should be decided immediately.‘

The game is called ‘TV Interview’. One of the couple is a tv journalist, the other one is a person with an interesting profession. The ‘journalist’ should prepare in advance 5 questions. He/she decides whether to tell the questions to the ‘star’ in advance or not.

The other one should choose to impersonate somebody with an interesting profession and should make up a name of that person, e.g. Maria Petrova – a famous plastic surgent or Danail Ivanov – a rock star. The ‘journalist’ should know who the other one is in advance in order to prepare the questions.

The best couple should win the award ‘Golden microphone’.

Phase 2

In the day of the lesson the teacher brings the microphone and the speaker. Pupils help with arranging the ‘studio’. He/she makes up the order of interviews by lottary. Each couples draws their number from a hat.

Phase 3

Every couple experience an interview in the ‘tv studio’. The ‘journalist’ uses microphone which passes on to the person to be interviewed.

Each interview should last 3 min maximum.

The teacher encourages both sides to use full and long sentences in order to shape a nice conversation.

At the end of every conversation the teacher asks whether the journalist has told the questions to the ‘star’ before or the ‘star’ did not know them

Phase 4

At the end of the lesson pupils decide with voting which couple had most interesting interview and wins the awadrs ‘Golden microphone’ (two statuettes for each of the winning couple).

Pupils help the teacher to put the classroom back to the normal order.

Dialogue Example

–              ‘’Journalist’’: Ms Petrova, welcome to our studio.

–              ‘’Star’’: Good evening. Thank you for your invitation.

–              ‘’Journalist’’: You are very famous plastic surgeon. Tell us which famous people have visited you for a surgery.

–              ‘’Star’’: This is a very delicate question. I can not tell you. It’s a doctor-patient secret.

–              ‘’Journalist’’: I see. Please, tell us how do you spend your day!

–              ‘’Star’’: I usually get up at 6 o’clock every day. Make breakfast and take my kids to school. Then I go to the hospital to start my work at 9 o’clock and to begin with surgeries.

–              ‘’Journalist’’: How may surgeries per day do you make”

–              ‘’Star’’: Normally 5. But sometime less or more.

–              ‘’Journalist’’: At the end, please wish something to our viewers.

–              ‘’Star’’: I wish them to be beautiful from inside.

And so on.