Interview Prep for Starting Your Own Business
A 10th-grade interview preparation packet that guides students in drafting open-ended questions for a guest entrepreneur, with rationale prompts for each question. It builds research, questioning, and English communication skills around market need and startup challenges, and works well as a pre-visit activity in a class period before a guest speaker arrives.
“Interviewing guest speakers with pre‑question worksheets in English on owning your own business”
Teacher Guide & Tips
- Use this in the class period before your guest entrepreneur visits, so students arrive with well-developed questions rather than improvising on the day.
- Discussion question: Why might a successful business owner's answer to 'How did you know people would want your product?' be more useful than a yes-or-no question?
- Scaffold for struggling readers: Model one strong open-ended question and one weak yes-or-no question side by side, then have students revise a weak example before filling in their own.
- Extension for advanced students: Ask them to anticipate the speaker's likely answers and draft a thoughtful follow-up question for each.
- Estimated time: About 30 to 45 minutes for drafting questions, plus a few minutes to refine them before the interview.
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Teacher Guide & Tips
- Use this in the class period before your guest entrepreneur visits, so students arrive with well-developed questions rather than improvising on the day.
- Discussion question: Why might a successful business owner's answer to 'How did you know people would want your product?' be more useful than a yes-or-no question?
- Scaffold for struggling readers: Model one strong open-ended question and one weak yes-or-no question side by side, then have students revise a weak example before filling in their own.
- Extension for advanced students: Ask them to anticipate the speaker's likely answers and draft a thoughtful follow-up question for each.
- Estimated time: About 30 to 45 minutes for drafting questions, plus a few minutes to refine them before the interview.
Interview Prep for Starting Your Own Business
A 10th-grade interview preparation packet that guides students in drafting open-ended questions for a guest entrepreneur, with rationale prompts for each question. It builds research, questioning, and English communication skills around market need and startup challenges, and works well as a pre-visit activity in a class period before a guest speaker arrives.
What is Diffit?
Teachers use Diffit to get quality materials for their unique classrooms. Adjust difficulty, add scaffolds, or change the topic to get started.
Try Diffit for free