The Interview

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LESSON PLAN

• Subject English
  Class XII
  Topic The Interview
• Date October19,2012
• Name of the teacher Smt. Nutan Maheshwari on
  PGT (English)
• JNV
  Kherli, Dausa

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AN ARABIAN PROVERB

• He who knows not, and knows not that he knows
  not
• He is a fool, shun him.
• He who knows not, and knows that he knows not
• He is simple , teach him.
• He who knows, and knows not that he knows
• He is asleep, wake him.
• He who knows, and knows that he knows
• He is wise, follow him.

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OBJECTIVES

• SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
• To develop the vocabulary reading skill.
• To develop the power of imagination reasoning.
• To develop the ability of making opinion.
• To introduce pupils to the subject of media
  writing.

• GENERAL OBJECTIVES
• To educate and train the children for social
  cultural behaviors.
• To develop the vocabulary language style.
• To provide the general awareness about life
  situation world around them.
• To develop the interest of student in English
  Literature.

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Pre Reading Activity

• Ms. Pratima Advani a senior journalist,
  editor as well as a well known socialist letting
  us know the secret and commitments executed by
  Ms. Nisha first girl among top five civil
  services examination 2010-2011 in her success
  path of life.

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What do we call this form-One men asking
questions to another??

• This form is known as Interview- a
  supremely serviceable medium of
  communication.

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The interviewby christopher silvester a
reporter for private eye for ten years, following
excerpt taken from his introduction to the
penguine book of interviews, an anthology from
1859 to the present day.Now all the students to
read from the book the 1st page of the lesson.

• Declaration of the topic

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While reading activity

• Vocabulary
• Common place(adj)
• Usual
• Usage-Computers are now common place in primary
  class rooms.
• Extravagant(adj)
• Exaggerated
• Usage- Residents should not be extravagant with
  water in view of low rain fall.
• Intrusion(n)
• Interference
• Usage-Intrusion of congress chairperson smt.
  Sonia Gandhi solved the matter between Mr.
  chidambaram Mr. Mukherjee.

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• Primitive(adj n)
• very Simple old fashioned
• Usage- The facilities provided by hotel Clark in
  Jaipur were primitive by today's standard.
• Diminishes(v)
• Belittle
• Usages-I dont want to do any such act which
  diminish the role of JNVs in India.

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Views of celebrities regarding Interview

• Positive View

• Supremely serviceable medium of communication
• An immensely popular journalistic style
• The most important means of getting impressions
  of our contemporaries
• Celebrities claim Interview in its highest form-a
  source of truth in its practice- an art
• interviewer holds a position of an extraordinary
  power influence.

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Views of celebrities regarding Interview
Negative View

• A needless invasion
• Somehow diminishes the person
• Interview in views of different celebs
• V.S.Naipaul(a cosmopolitan writer) feels
  wounded and loose a part of himself.
• Lewis Carrol(creator of Alice in
  Wonderland)-hates being interviewed
• Rudyard Kipling(writer of Jungle Book)- considers
  it immoral and crime.

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Recapitulation

• 1. How do you know of the growing popularity of
  the interview as a form of journalism???
• Ans.-Everybody who is literate will have read an
  interview and also several thousand celebs have
  been interviewed to date.
• 2. How has the popularity of the interview
  affected its form???
• Ans.- The functions, methods and merits of
  interview vary considerably hence, there is no
  uniform pattern.

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• 3. What are the different views that people hold
  about interviews as a technique???
• Ans.- Some claim that it is a source of truth and
  an art, while others despise it as an intrusion
  in to their lives.
• 4. Who is our chief source of information, in
  todays world, about personalities???
• Ans.- The interviewer who gets the information
  directly from the horses mouth, is the chief
  source of information.

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POST READING ACTIVITY

• 1.What are some of the positive views on
  interviews???
• 2.Why do most celeb writers despise being
  interviewed???

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ASSIGNMENT

• Frame five
  questions to be asked by one of the
  members of inspection team.

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ASSIGNMENT

• Ms. Pratima Advani had not got the space in the
  news paper to reproduce the interview verbatim,
  she may has been asked to reproduce a short
  report of the interview with the salient points.
  Write the report for her.

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THANKS