Resource 2: Possible interview questions

 Teacher resource for planning or adapting to use with pupils

Below are some questions to use with a visitor to find out about an event in the past or how they used to do things in the past. Areas you could explore include:

• growing food;
• traditional dress;
• traditional healing;
• building houses;
• education.

These three sets of starter questions will help you support your pupils in thinking of their own questions.

(1) Historial events

• What historical events took place when you were young?
• What did you wear when you went to a party or a wedding?
• Which event do you remember most?
• What do you remember about it?
• What happened? Tell me the story as you remember it.
• Who else was with you?
• Could I speak to them about this still?

(2) Games

• What games did you play when you were a child?
• How did you play these games?
• Who taught you to play these games?
• When did you play them?
• Where did you play them?
• What other activities did you enjoy?

(3) Growing food

• What vegetables and fruit did you grow?
• How did you grow them?
• Where did you grow them?
• What tools did you use?
• What did vegetables cost at the time?
• Where did you buy them? Which ones did you buy?
• What else did you eat that you liked?
• Do you still eat these foods?