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    An Interview With Elon Musk

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    An activity in which students can role-play.

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    TEACHER'S NOTES

    ESL / EFL RESOURCES An Interview with Elon Musk

    Activity Type Introduction


    Reading, writing, In this intriguing role-play activity, students take part in a
    listening and speaking business interview to practice asking and answering questions in
    activity, pairwork the present simple and present continuous.

    Procedure
    Language Focus
    Tell the students that they are going to role-play a business
    Present simple and
    interview between a journalist from Business Insider and Elon
    present continuous
    Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors.

    Divide the students into pairs.


    Aim
    To role-play a business Give one student a journalist worksheet and the other student an
    interview and practice Elon Musk worksheet.
    asking and answering
    questions in the present The journalist's task is to interview Elon Musk to find out about his
    simple and present work routine, current projects, plans and goals, and make notes
    continuous. on his answers.

    The student who is Elon Musk uses the information on the


    Preparation worksheet to answer the journalist's questions.
    Make one copy of the
    Give the students a few minutes to prepare what they are going
    worksheet for each pair
    to say, paying close attention to which parts of the interview will
    of students and cut as
    be in the present simple and which parts will be in the present
    indicated.
    continuous.

    Level The students then role play the interview in their pairs.

    Intermediate Encourage the students acting as Elon to give as much information


    as they can when answering questions.

    Time When the pairs have finished, have them report back to the class
    20 minutes on their interviews.

    As an extension, have the pairs write a short news article in the


    present simple and present continuous based on the interview.

    Note: This is an editable PDF. To edit the document, select the Edit
    PDF tool in Acrobat.

    Teach-This.com © 2018 Permission granted to reproduce for classroom use.


    PRESENT SIMPLE VS. PRESENT CONTINUOUS

    ESL / EFL RESOURCES An Interview with Elon Musk

    Journalist - Business Insider

    Interview Elon Musk to find out about his normal work routine,
    current projects, plans and goals. Make notes on his answers.

    1. Work routine:

    2. Current projects:

    3. Immediate plans:

    4. Short term goals:

    5. Long term goals:

    ________________________________________________

    Elon Musk - CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors

    You are Elon Musk. Use the information below to answer the
    journalist's questions.

    Work routine: Mondays and Fridays at SpaceX


    Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at Tesla

    07:00 - 08:00 - wake up and have breakfast


    09:00 - 10:45 - morning calls to journalists, job candidates
    and conference calls
    10:45 - 13:00 - meeting with engineering team
    13:00 - 14.00 - lunch
    13:00 - 14:00 - daily walk around Tesla or SpaceX factory
    14:00 - 17:00 - meeting with design team
    17:00 - 23:00 - dinner then interviews with journalists or participating in other types of events

    Current projects: SpaceX - Flight testing Falcon 9 space rocket


    Tesla - Building battery storage facility in Australia

    Next week: Monday and Friday - Testing SpaceX reusable rocket


    Tuesday to Thursday - Designing new solar roof tiles and model 3 car batteries

    Goals: Short term - Expand the electric vehicle product line to address all major segments
    Long term - SpaceX mission to Mars

    Teach-This.com © 2018 Permission granted to reproduce for classroom use.

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