Oral Interview  Guideline

Individual Oral Interview scheduled on Tuesday, March 9th, will be conducted in the following manner. You should be able to have a short conversation (about 5-10 minutes).

• The first half of the interview will be a free talk.  Remember you are responsible to initiate and decide the direction of the conversation. So, before you come to the interview, you should have clear ideas about what you want to talk about.  If you bring artifacts, e.g. pictures of people and places, they will be very helpfull to make the conversation more interesting and easy to carry on.
• The second half of the interview will be a role-play in which you are a patient and your instructor is a doctor.  (See the guideline below.)

Each interview is conducted individually and solely in Japanese.

The FRAME OF THE INTERVIEW

1.  Greeting and Small Talk

2.  Free Conversation

Initiate the conversation on any topic of your choice. Topics may be chosen from those related to driving, traveling, people around you (e.g., family and friends), health, etc. Introduce the topic, describe it, state your opinions, ask questions, make suggestions, and so on. (Bring anything that helps you in this activity.).

3.  Role-Play

Pretend that you are a patient visiting a doctor's office or an emergency room.

· Go out of the instructor's office and come back as a patient.  Knock the door and come in the room.  (Don't forget to bow.)

· Sit on the chair as you are invited and explain your problem(s)--either sickness or injury.  You should be able to answer the doctor's pertinent questions.

· Ask what you should or should not do with your condition.

· Get advice, prescription, medical treatment, etc.  You should find out if (and when) you should come back for a second visit.

· End the visit by thanking the doctor. Go out of the room.  (Don't forget to bow.)

#The interview ends when you go out as a patient.#

3. Evaluation Criteria (Total Point = 30)

Information (10):

ability to provide a large amount of information with details

Communication (10):

ability to initiate, sustain, restore, and develop an interactive language use

Language (10):

ability to use complex as well as simple sentence structures with appropriately conjugated verbs and adjectives