Description: Understand the results of a survey about a group’s eating habits and provide a general interpretation of it.
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Level: A2
Target audience: all college level students
General goals/objectives: spoken production
Specific goals/objectives:
- understand the results of a survey about a group’s eating habits and provide a general interpretation of it
Materials needed for activity: (check the following)
- internet access
- projector _ speakers _ printout
- BYOD (Bring Your Own Device – smartphone, tablet)
Time: 20 minutes
Overview: Fill out a survey and interpret the results.
Activity 1
- Make sure Ss understand the expression ‘you are what you eat’.
- Discuss in pairs/small groups the validity of the expression ‘you are what you eat’.
Activity 2
- Pre-teach any words on the vegan survey that might not be familiar.
- Have Ss fill in the survey and then project the results.
- Have Ss provide interpretations of the results, using some of the expressions provided in the activity.
Activity 3
Make up an online survey similar to the one in this activity.
Related Activities
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- Hospital food
- Vegan? Vegetarian? What’s the difference?
- The road to veganism
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| Production / Speaking | Sustained monologue | Can briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions, plans and actions (A2) |
| Production / Speaking | Public announcements | Can deliver very short, rehearsed announcements of predictable, learned content which are intelligible to listeners who are prepared to concentrate (A2) |
| Interaction / Spoken | Conversation | Can handle very short social exchanges but is rarely able to understand enough to keep conversation going of his/her own accord, though he/she can be made to understand if the speaker will take the trouble (A2) |
| Interaction / Spoken | Information exchange | Can understand enough to manage simple, routine exchanges without undue effort (A2) |
[/tabcontent][tabcontent]You are what you eat…or are you?
By the end of this LO, you should be able to read and summarise results of a class survey about people’s response to veganism.
- What does the expression ‘you are what you eat’ mean? How truthful is this expression?
- Fill in this survey (suggested text below) and summarise some of the class results. You might want to use the following expressions:
- Many of the responses about…are similar/different….what’s interesting is…
- I think that the class results about…show that…
- The number of…is…Truthfully, I am/am not surprised that…
- …seems to be the trend. It’s interesting that…
- So many/few students are…I feel that…
Suggested survey text:
- Are you a vegan or vegetarian? *
- No, I am not a vegan or vegetarian
- Yes, I am a vegan
- Yes, I am a vegetarian
- I am a part-time vegan or vegetarian
- Do you think being a vegan is a healthier option? *
- Yes
- No
- Do you have any friends who are vegetarian? *
- Yes
- No
- Check the main factors that led you or your friend to becoming a vegetarian/ vegan. If you don\’t know any vegetarians, consider what would be the main factors. *
- Animal rights
- Better health
- Environmental
- Knowing more about what you eat
- Economical
- If or when you have children, what diet will you feed them? *
- Mainstream diet (meat, fastfood OK)
- Whatever diet they choose, including meat
- Healthy diet, which may include fish or meat
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
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