Brainstorming Guidelines

Interview Project
(to be presented in the Introduction)

1. Project topic
💡 In your group, have a look through all the topics and answer the following questions.
● What topic does your group choose?
Traditional Vietnamese food___________

● Who will be your interview subjects?

Van Lang University’s student, people aged 18-22 years old__________

2. The purpose of the interview project & the Interview Questions

💡 In your group, discuss the question below together and fill in the chart below.
● What is the purpose of your interview? (e.g., 02 groups might choose the same topic, but group 1 aims to
understand more about the topic, while group 2 aims to look for some solutions to that topic. In other words, the
groups have different purposes when addressing the chosen topic.)
→ Complete the sentence “The purpose of our interview is to.............” in the chart below.

● What questions are you going to ask the interviewees? Discuss and choose 3-4 interview questions. Your
interview questions must directly link to the chosen topic AND the purpose of your interview project.
→ Write your interview questions in the chart below.

The purpose of our interview is to discover the tastes and favorite traditional dishes of people aged 18-22
years old

Interview Question 1:

Do you know what traditional Vietnamese food is ?

Interview Question 2:

What traditional foods can you eat every day ?

Interview Question 3:

What food do you think tastes unpleasant ?

Interview Question 4:

What traditional Vietnamese cuisine do you think foreigners should try ?

❌ DON’T just have closed-ended questions (i.e. this-or-that, yes-or-no questions).

💡 DO have some open-ended questions (i.e. what, why, when, how, who… questions).