Interviewing Pelé – Year 11

This week in my author residency I was able to make use of my journalism and web content writing experience, conducting mock interviews with football superstar, the late Pelé, for the Year 11 VM Literacy classes.







The activity was to demonstrate to students how you’d conduct an interview, including what questions to ask.







We talked about how to make the person you are interviewing feel comfortable so that they’ll share more personal, more interesting information with you.







After each interview, I showed students how I would take the information to turn it into a post or news article, taking the most interesting facts and using them to attract readers and encourage them to keep reading.