Get fit Interview strategies and questions

SPEAKING S K I L L S

Doing an interview It is vital that you prepare your questions before meeting with the interviewee. Be prepared to record responses. Take a notebook for jotting down answers, or bring along a partner to take notes. Even better, ask permission for the interview to be recorded. When you ask questions remember that Who, Which, and What can be the subject of the sentence.

Who trains with you? Who helps you? Which plays a… role? We don’t need to use ‘did’, ‘do’ or ‘does’. Instead, we just take out the subject from the answer and add ‘who’. Jack trains with me. Who trains with you?

1 Let’s do an interview a) Read the article. Match the questions to the answers. Two readers’ questions are missing. Look at the answers and write the questions down.

What helps you to keep fit? Who trains with you? Which plays a more important role in your life – football or family? What makes you really angry? • When people throw bottles at the players.

That makes me angry! • I have a fitness plan and I train every day. • I play golf or I read. • Oh, that’s easy. My family. • My brother. He jogs with me.

When you have a bad day who do you talk to? Where do you come from? Who do you train with? What is your dog like? • I eat lots of salad. • My dog. I jog with him every day. • My dog is big and black and very sweet. • I talk to my tennis trainer, of course, and to my dad. • I come from Ukraine.

b) The readers asked more questions. Here are the answers. What were the questions? Example: My trainer writes my fitness plan. – Who writes your fitness plan? A day at home makes me happy (What?) My mum looks after my dog when I’m on tour. (Who?) A golf ball. It travels faster than football. (Which?) A very good football player gets a lot of money for a game. (Who?) My dad trained me for Wimbledon. (Who?) Ukrainian food. It’s better than English food. (Which?)

2 Who are you talking to? Make questions with prepositions Example: She got him from the animal home. – Where did she get him from? She got the address from a magazine (Where… from?) They were happy about Sam’s idea. (What…about?)

TIP We sometimes use question words with a preposition Who did she talk to?

Her dog comes from a farm. (Where… from) I am waiting for a train. (What …for?)