1、Doing a survey,Task,What is a survey? A survey is an activity with the purpose of collecting information. In a survey, we ask people to answer a list of questions or to rate several statements.,1. In order to do a survey, what kinds of things should we take into consideration? 2. How do we collect i
2、nformation, by surfing the net or by making a questionnaire?,3. Can you tell me how to make a questionnaire? Are there any rules for us to follow? 4. When a questionnaire is completed, what should we do with it?,5. Do you know how to conduct an interview? 6. Do you think it is important to interview
3、 persons in appropriate ways?,Skills building 1: completing a questionnaire,1. What is a questionnaire? We usually do a survey to collect information. In a survey, we ask people to respond to a list of questions or to statements. We call this list a questionnaire.,A picnic on this weekend,When would
4、 you like to have the picnic?Saturday Sunday 2. Where do you prefer to go?The Fuqiu MountainYiyang Botanical Garden,Questionnaire,3. What food do you like better? Pork Beef Chicken Fruit 4. How much are you going to spend on your food?510 1120 over 20,Ask one piece of information at a time.Use short
5、 and simple sentences. Avoid negative sentences.Use precise language. Give specific references. Make sure people have the necessary knowledge to answer.,2. The rules to make sure that the meaning of each question is clear:,Below is a questionnaire about peoples shopping habits. The statements are no
6、t properly made. Point out which rule each statement breaks. Write the numbers in the blanks. You do not have to fill in the questionnaire.,Answers: 1. _ 2. _ 3. _ 4. _ 5. _ 6. _,2,3,1,6,5,4,A. You are working for a book club. The club is doing a survey of its members, but in the questionnaire there
7、 are three questions / statements that break the rules on Page 12. please correct them.,Step 1: designing a questionnaire,Answers: The three problems are: Question 2 should be split into two questions: 2. How did you find out about Best Book Club? 3. When did you join the club?,So the questions have
8、 consequently been renumbered. Altogether there are 7 questions in the questionnaire now. The former Questions in the questionnaire now,Question 4 should be made more specific by adding the words in the last six months.The explanation in brackets for Question 6 should be simplified as the following:
9、 (Please write down your answer.),Listen to an interview with a Best Book Club member, and fill in your corrected questionnaire.,Listening,1. How old are you?below 15 15-20 over 20 2. How did you find out about the Best Book Club and when did you join the club?newspaper magazinesfriends Internet thi
10、s year last year the year before last ,Answers,3. How many times have you visited bookshops in the last six months?0 1-5 6-10 over 10,4. How much have you spent on books in the last six months?￥0- ￥ 50 ￥51- ￥ 100 over ￥100 ,5. What subject are you most interested in?humour travel history sports scie
11、nce other( if you have not ticked any boxes above, do not leave the following blank empty because we need your opinion.) _,6. Why did you join the Best Book Club?for new books for discounts for used book for free books for book exchange other( Please write down your answers.) _,1. How do you greet e
12、ach other or your teachers on the way to school in the morning? 2. Is there any differences between greeting your friends and greeting a stranger?,Skills building 2: greeting others and making introductions,1. Greeting someone formally, we can use: Good morning / afternoon. Nice to meet you. 2. Gree
13、ting a friend or classmate, we use:Hello! / Hi! 3. Greeting a stranger, we can use:Good morning / afternoon/evening.Excuse me, sir / madam. Hello.,What will you do after greeting a stranger? We can introduce ourselves and tell the person what we want to do and why.,Excuse me, sir. I am Sanha. Id lik
14、e to ask you a few questions if you dont mind.,Here are some common introductions:,Imfrom. Id like to ask you a few questions about your opinions/ programme/ new book. My name is Im from Id like to ask you a few questions if you dont mind. Its for,Read the example conversation and then make up a con
15、versation using what you have learnt in this part. One of you should be a reporter from the school magazine, the other should be a student who took part in a school festival.,Work in pairs.,Step 2: carrying out an interview,Work in pairs. Find a partner to interview. Take turns to be the interviewer
16、 and the club member. Remember to greet one another appropriately.,conducting a survey,designing a questionnaire,conducting an interview,greeting,introduce yourself ,Thanks,Sum up,Hello.,Hello.,You can use the vocabulary on page 15. You can begin like this:,My name is Amy. I am a staff member in thi
17、s club. I know youre a member of our club. Would you mind if I ask you some questions?,Of course not.,Work in pairs and one act as the boss of the club, the other the employee of the club. You may use the questions in Part B.,Skills building 3: analyzing statistics,Whats the purpose of analyzing sta
18、tistics?,1. Analyzing statistics to draw conclusions. 2. Analyzing statistics to make suggestions.,Have a try!,Below are some statistics gathered from a school survey about students hobbies and interests. Analyse the statistics and draw at least three more conclusions. Then make your suggestions.,Co
19、nclusions: 1. Doing sport is the most popular activity for students in the school. 2._. 3._. 4._.,Only a few students like reading,Most students do not like dancing,Suggestions: 1. The school should have more sports equipment. 2._.,3._ _. 4._.,The school should find ways to get the,students interest
20、ed in reading,School social events should not include dancing, because most students simply not interested in it.,Step 3: writing a report,When writing a report, it is important to begin by analysing the facts, drawing a conclusion from these facts, and then giving details of your suggestion. Look a
21、t the statistics on Page 16 and below, and read the following report to see how this is done.,Read the report, compare the suggestions in the report with the suggestions you discussed and decide whose suggestions are better and more practical.,You are to write a report on getting the students at you
22、r school interested in reading by starting a book club. Use the information on Page 16, the sample above and the statistics below to help you.,Possible example: From our recent survey of students, we have found that only 8 percent of the students like reading. The most popular reading subject is hum
23、our, which 28 percent of the students enjoy. This is closely followed by travel books, which 25 per cent of the students are interested in.,16 percent of the students like reading about sports and 12 percent like science books. A small number of the students like other subjects, such as history. We
24、want to get the students interested in reading. For this reason, we suggest that we have a humour book club, since humour is the most popular subject.,Each class would have its own club meetings once a week. At the meetings, they would discuss what books they are currently reading, and could even re
25、ad aloud some funny bits from the books. The class monitors could then come up with a list of humour books which are,popular with the students, and this list could be shared with the other classes. This would be a good way to encourage students to read by helping them learn about books that they might enjoy.,Finish the Workbook exercise.Preview the Project part.,Homework,
