Asking Smart Questions
Aims
Goal: be the candidate who asked the best question the interviewer heard all week — a bank of twelve ready questions and the judgement to pick three.
The lesson, stage by stage
- Warm up5 min
Warm-up: Do you have any questions for us?
2 warm-up questions
- Reading10 min
Reading: Your questions are part of the interview
Read a 152-word text about Your questions are part of the interview
- Reading10 min
Reading: The question bank: twelve you can steal
Read a 241-word text about The question bank: twelve you can steal
- Vocabulary8 min
Vocabulary: Interview Question Vocabulary
6 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Fix the Interview Questions
Error-correction exercise, 5 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Build Interview Questions
Word-ordering exercise, 5 items
- Dialogue10 min
Dialogue: Asking Your Questions
Role-play: The interviewer has finished their questions and asks if you have any questions for them. (4 lines)
- Discussion10 min
Discussion: Your mission: the best question they heard all week
3 discussion questions
Open the full lesson
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Target vocabulary
In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.
This plan comes from the Job Interview Preparation course in the Tuton library. Browse all free lesson plans.