General instructions
With your mate you have to make an audio report about a smart city. One of you has to play the part of the interviewer, the other one will play the part of the mayor of the city you will present.
The report has to be presented in 3 points :
- The interviewer’s speech: The interviewer explains, in general, what a smart city is. (1 min)
- Mayor’s speech: The mayor of the city presents, in general, the city (surface area, number of inhabitants, principal characteristics, …). (1 min)
- Questions/Answers: The interviewer asks at least 6 questions about the smart city to the mayor. The mayor of the city answers each question with a constructed development. (3 min)
To edit the audio you will record you have to use the software Audacity.
Your voice has to be clear to be listened to and you have to cut too long silences.
Don’t hesitate to record several times your speech to choose the best parts. You have the time to focus on your accent, so do it…
The interviewer’s speech (individual)
Step 1: Search information about smart cities.
Step 2: Write your 1 minute long speech to explain what a smart city is and to introduce the mayor of the city you will interview.
Step 3: Record your speech.
The Mayor’s speech (individual)
Step 1: Search information about smart cities and select one of them. Find information about your city to present it (surface area, number of inhabitants, principal characteristics, …).
Step2: Write your 1 minute long speech to describe your city.
Step 3: Record your speech.
Questions/answers (in pairs)
Step 4: Prepare at least 6 questions the interviewer will ask to the mayor about the fact that his city is a smart city.
Step 5: Search information to answer to these questions.
Step 6: Write the script of this 3 minute-long part.
Step 7: Record this interaction.
Final (in pairs)
Step 8: Edit your audio files to make just one mp3 file named by the name of the city you worked on and your 2 last names.
Step 9: Send the file to your teachers on Eclat on the homework note-book.