This simple presentation introduces our students to surveys. After that, they are invited to conduct a survey on any topic of interest among other students at school.

1. Do you....?
Project: How to make surveys
José A. Alcalde López

2. With this project students...
● Will be involved in a real life task
● Will work in teams
● Will use ICT
● Will interact with other people
● Will revise maths (statistics,
percentages, graphs...)
● Will practise some specific grammar
(questions, tenses, frequency adverbs...)
● Will work on specific vocabulary
according to the survey

3. What is a survey?
It is a detailed study or
comprehensive analysis on a
specific topic to know more about it.
It usually includes different
questions to be answered among a
definite population.
Statistics can help a lot when
showing results, once the survey
has been conducted.

4. Why surveys?
Surveys (aka polls) are very frequent
nowadays because they offer
people's opinions and data on
virtually any topic (politics,
consumerism, likes and preferences,
free time...)
Many mass media include surveys on
a regular basis.

5. Who?
When conducting a survey it is
important to have in mind a
target group.
Variables like gender, age,
origin, education, income, etc.,
are some possibilities to
consider.

6. Questions
They are the simplest straightforward
way to know about people's opinions
and information. We distinguish:
● Yes/No: These questions expect a very
simple answer. Sometimes “Don't know” is
also offered
● Wh-: Now the possibilities are wider
depending on the question form (who,
when, what, where, how often, why...)

7. New technologies
Today conducting a survey can be
very simple by using some on-line
polls (some of them free).
We only have to edit the questions,
possible answers and the
programme will offer all the results
in varied attractive formats.

8. Statistics
“It is the study of the collection,
organization, analysis, interpretation
and presentation of data” (Wikipedia).
It will help us to show in a very simple
and visual way the result of our survey.
Remember there is also a margin of
error in every survey study.

9. And now your survey...
● In groups think of an interesting
topic for teenagers
● Write 15 possible questions
(including Y/N, Wh-...)
● Write a paper version and an on-
line one
● Conduct the survey among a
target group
● Get the results
● Present the results to the class

10. Do you....?
Project: How to make surveys
José A. Alcalde López