I.
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ face-to-face , in-person ( AmE ), one-on-one ( esp. AmE ), one-to-one ( BrE ), personal
▪ phone ( esp. BrE ), telephone
▪
Telephone ~s with over 400 businesses picked up high rates of satisfaction.
▪ group
▪ extensive , in-depth , lengthy
▪ brief
▪ follow-up , second
▪ police
▪
a police ~ with suspected terrorists
▪ magazine , media , newspaper , press , radio , television
▪ exclusive
▪
We have an exclusive ~ with the director of the movie.
▪ live
▪
He did a live ~ on the CBC News Morning show.
▪ job
▪
I have a job ~ tomorrow.
VERB + INTERVIEW
▪ carry out , conduct , do , hold
▪
The survey team carried out over 200 ~s with retired people.
▪ arrange , schedule
▪
The company contacted her to arrange an ~.
▪ request
▪
A journalist called requesting an ~.
▪ schedule
▪ do , give (sb) , grant (sb)
▪
He's a very private man and rarely does ~s.
▪ attend , be called for , have
▪
She's been called for an ~ for the manager's job.
▪ air , broadcast , publish
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The ~ was published in all the papers.
▪ feature
▪
This month we feature an ~ with Nicole Kidman.
▪ audiotape , record , tape , videotape ( esp. AmE )
▪
She taped an ~ to appear the following day on ‘CBS Sunday Morning’.
▪
All police ~s are recorded and transcribed.
INTERVIEW + NOUN
▪ room
▪ panel ( esp. BrE )
▪ techniques
▪ procedure , process
▪
The questions are the central point of the whole ~ procedure.
▪ question
▪
Prepare answers to possible ~ questions.
▪ footage
▪
The documentary combines ~ footage and clips from his films.
▪ clip , segment , snippet (all esp. AmE )
▪ transcript
▪ request
▪
I get a lot of ~ requests from journalists.
PREPOSITION
▪ in an/the ~
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He said in an ~ that he wanted to get married.
▪ ~ about
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He gave the paper an ~ about his musical tastes.
▪ ~ between
▪
an ~ between the French Foreign Minister and the President of Egypt
▪ ~ for
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an ~ for the post of sales manager
▪ ~ with
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He had an ~ with IBM.
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an ~ with the Vietnamese leader
PHRASES
▪ a round of ~s
▪
We're about to start the second round of ~s for the post.
II.
verb
Interview is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ journalist , ↑ police
Interview is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ applicant , ↑ candidate , ↑ participant , ↑ survivor , ↑ suspect , ↑ witness