20 minute exam question lesson task for interview

[Pidginenglish]

I have been invited to interview for an English teacher position and as part of the selection process will be asked to teach for 20 minutes.

It's a full year 11 class, and based on the Lit GCSE 19th century novel section, looking at exam technique.

I'm really stuck as to what to concentrate on for only 20 mins with a group I don't know, and I think thrown by the fact that normally exam technique would involve planning and writing an essay, which is given feedback which takes far more time, especially after establishing what they know and doing some actual input.

Any suggestions for how to approach this? Is it fine to work on an example or only discuss verbally?

@Pidginenglish
I’m maths not English, but could you give the students exam answers/model solutions to improve on?

Bloody hell. That’s a hard task.

In twenty minutes, I think I’d choose a very short extract (5/6 lines max) and pretend it’s a small part of the analysis question, model reading the extract and identifying the techniques, then write a stunning paragraph analysing one of the techniques you’ve spotted and get them to write a paragraph about another.

Not secondary English. How about show them a question and 2 or 3 model answers and a marking scheme. Which answer would get the most marks and why? Can they improve a low scoring answer?

Planning an answer to an exam question?

There isn’t much you can do in 20 mins - planning an answer to an exam question or you could have an open discussion with the class and then write up?
They’ll be assessing your teaching style and how you engage with the class too.

I would maybe think about giving them a couple of quotations from an extract and getting them to explode them. Then would maybe look at a model paragraph and what makes it good. Then give them a second not so good paragraph and they have to improve. Or give them a question and ask them to bullet point ideas from the text as a whole that might be relevant. Then you could give them a couple of model intros and get them to decide which they thought was the best and why. Next task would be to decide which of their ideas from the lists they made at the start would be useful for developing the ideas in the introduction.

When I was interviewing last year one of our candidates gave us a lesson plan which then stated what she would have continued with and how she saw the lesson developing as 20mins is really short. This was quite impressive and allowed her to show more of her thought process and planning.

Which text and which board?