Reading: An Interview Transcript Format
Reading an interview transcript format is a B1 dialogic-text reading skill worksheet. The text presents a journalistic interview transcript — interviewer questions and interviewee responses with intro and conclusion. Learners read for question-answer matching, attitude identification, and content synthesis across the dialogue.
This worksheet builds B1 dialogic-text reading skill.
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What’s inside:
- A B1 interview transcript (~500 words) with two speakers identified
- Pre-reading vocabulary box with interview and dialogic terms
- Comprehension items: question-answer matching, attitude identification, content synthesis
- Vocabulary-in-context: interview-genre vocabulary
- Writing follow-up: design three interview questions for someone you’d like to interview
- Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes
Common challenges: Dialogic reading at B1 requires tracking two speakers across turns. Interview questions vary by type: factual (what / when / where), opinion (what do you think about), reflective (how did you feel when). Reported-speech reference: the introduction may use she said, he explained, they argued.
For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR B1, in intermediate classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study. Maps onto Cambridge B1 Preliminary (PET) Reading. Part of the Practical Reading Skills collection — the natural next step is Reading a Graph and Written Commentary, which extends practical reading into data-text integration.
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