3 step interview

The steps:

In the 3 step interview, students in each group take part in three separate discussions, or interviews. This strategy is useful when groups have developed their own design solutions and need to combine them for one class proposal. It can be used as a ranking strategy to determine what may need to be ‘left out’ of the group’s own design to develop the class design proposal.

To establish this strategy: (Note: Each team could present their design solution to the class prior to conducting the 3 step interview.)

1.      Divide into teams of four, numbering the members from 1 to 4.

2.      Introduce the discussion topic, e.g. ‘Which built environment features from your proposal should be included in the class solution? Why?’

3.      The three steps are then introduced, allowing students 2–3 minutes for each interview.

Step 1: Students 1 and 2 interview each other while Students 3 and 4 interview each other.

Step 2: Students 1 and 3 interview each other and Students 2 and 4 interview each other.

Step 3: The four group members then discuss the topic and attempt to reach a consensus.

The materials:

Grammar Skill

We form the past perfect tense with:

Subject + HAD + VERB 3

The past perfecct tense is used to express an action that happened before another. We use the past perfect tense for the action that happened first, and the simple past tense for what happened later.

Example:

I had eaten before he came

He had drunk poison before he died

After my younger brother had fallen from the mangotree, he cried.

They ran away as soon as the rain had stopped

Advers of time:

Before, when, after, as soon as,