Interview Exercise

There is a journal article needs to be publish at XYZ newspaper about refugee migration to Australia. In order to get as much information as possible, the newspaper is running a program to interview people from a refugee background to find more information about them.

The newspaper has hired you as an interviewer to interview the above people. Your task now is to run this interview.

TASK: You will work in a group of two, one as interviewer and one as interviewee (person who will be interviewed). The following steps should help you during the interview process as guidance. You should feel free to divert if required. You should spend 10min per interview and switch roles when finish.

1. Interviewer welcomes the interviewee and both exchange their names

2. Interviewer explains what is the interview for

3. Interviewer asks the following questions

a. How long have you been in Australia?

b. Did you or your family come to Australia as refugees?

c. How did you feel when you first arrived in Australia? Describe what it was like

d. Were the cultural and environment differences difficult when you first arrive?

e. How was your English level when you first arrived?

f. What information were you given when you arrived?

g. What things were hard to find out?

h. What other things did you need or want to know?

i. How did you find the answers to these?

j. How could the experience have been better for you?

k. What advice would you give to other new migrants and refugees?

l. How can we help them settle?

m. What are your future plans at the moment? And how much have you achieved so

far?

4. Interviewer asks interviewee if they would like to add anything else

5. Interviewer wraps up the interview