This page lists all of our available Survey Sheet files that involve career characteristics preferences.
The available content includes materials suitable for group sizes ranging from 2 participants (which for 1-on-1 tutoring, could be the student and the teacher) to large group survey activities that can involved a class of 40 or more learners.
Prerequisites: Students can participate in any of the Survey-Taking activities presented on this page after memorizing/learning:
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A variety of different Survey Sheet formats for different activity types. View full lists in the Activity Versions section of this page.
These survey-taking activities are information-gap activities. These activity types are part of the Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) methodology.
Due to the simplicity of the communication required for these activities, they are especially suitable for developing speaking confidence in English language beginners and near-beginners. However, they are also an efficient means of quickly developing the speaking skills needed to participate in more complex communication activities that utilize many of the same vocabulary words and similar basic sentence patterns.
The following Sentences & Sentence Patterns are used in all of the survey activities listed on this page.
Standard Sentences & Sentence Patterns | |
Sentences & Sentence Patterns for Talking About the 18 Characters | |
Who can you tell me about? | This sentence is primarily for use with the Card-Based Survey Activity, although it can also be used for the Information Trading Survey Activity. |
Do you know what type of work _______________would and wouldn’t like her job to involve? | A character’s name goes in the blank. This sentence is primarily for use with the Information Trading Survey Activity. |
_______________ would be very interested in a job involving _______________. Yes | A character’s name goes in the first blank. One or more career areas goes in the second blank. Yes |
_______________ would be interested in a job involving _______________. Yes | A character’s name goes in the first blank. One or more career areas goes in the second blank. Yes |
_______________ is OK with a job involving _______________. Yes | A character’s name goes in the first blank. One or more career areas goes in the second blank. Yes |
_______________ would not be very interested in a job involving _______________. Yes | A character’s name goes in the first blank. One or more career areas goes in the second blank. Yes |
_______________ would hate doing a job involving _______________. Yes | A character’s name goes in the first blank. One or more career areas goes in the second blank. Yes |
Sentences & Sentence Patterns for Authentic Surveys and Role-Playing as One of the 18 Characters Yes Yes | |
What’s your name? Yes | This sentence is for use with the Authentic Survey activity version, or the Character Cards Based version, if participants pretend to be the characters shown on their cards. Yes |
My name is _______________. Yes | For Authentic Surveys the person’s name goes in the blank. For role-playing as one of the 18 characters, a character’s name goes in the blank. Yes |
What type of work _______________ would you like your job to involve? Yes | This sentence is for use with the Authentic Survey activity version, or the Character Cards Based version, if participants pretend to be the characters shown on their cards. Yes |
What type of work _______________ wouldn’t you like your job to involve? Yes | This sentence is for use with the Authentic Survey activity version, or the Character Cards Based version, if participants pretend to be the characters shown on their cards. Yes |
What type of work _______________ would you be OK with your job to involve? Yes | This sentence is for use with the Authentic Survey activity version, or the Character Cards Based version, if participants pretend to be the characters shown on their cards. Yes |
I would be very interested in a job involving _______________. Yes | One or more career areas goes in the blank. Yes |
I would be interested in a job involving _______________. Yes | One or more career areas goes in the blank. Yes |
I would be OK with a job involving _______________. Yes | One or more career areas goes in the blank. Yes |
I wouldn’t be interested in a job involving _______________. Yes | One or more career areas goes in the blank. Yes |
I would hate doing a job involving _______________. Yes | One or more career areas goes in the blank. Yes |
The Core Vocabulary Words listed below are all words that students should learn BEFORE attempting the Survey Activities described on this page.
Core Vocabulary Words To Pre-Learn | |
All Survey Forms | art, communication, computers, creativity, equipment, law, math, money, music, science, tools |
Notes:
*There is also the option to provide learners with a Cheat Sheet listing all of the Core Vocabulary Words next to their images. This will allow them practice using all of the vocabulary words without needing to first memorize them. The process of learning the words can be scaffolded by first allowing students to use the Cheat Sheet, and then (once they have some familiarity) encouraging them to flip the Cheat Sheet face-down and only use it after first attempting to recall a needed vocabulary word from memory.
The following words will be used to the play this game (with every available set of cards). However, these words don’t need to be pre-taught. These words can and should be learned WHILE playing the game. The instructor’s demonstration of how to play the game will provide an opportunity to show how all of these words are used as part of useful communication sentences.
Vocabulary Best Learned in Context | |
All Words Used With At Least One Type of Survey Activity | a, about, and, be, can, do, doing, hate, her, I, in, interested, involve, involving, is, job, know, like, me, my, name, not, of, OK, tell, to, type, very, what, what’s, who, with, work, would, wouldn’t, you, your |
Most of the words included on this list are hard (or virtually impossible) to depict visually on a flashcard. Demonstrating them while introducing a Survey-Taking activity and then having learners use them while participating in the activity is an optimal strategy for helping learners understand the words’ meaning (based on context/function).
1. Gaining mastery in using a variety of sentences to successfully ask about different individuals’ career preferences.
“Do you know what type of work Ann would and wouldn’t like her job to involve?”
“What type of work would you like your job to involve?”
“Who can you tell me about?” (This sentence is primarily for use with the Card-Based Survey Activity, although it can also be used for the Information Trading Activity.)
“What’s your name?” (This sentence is for use with the Authentic Survey activity version, or the Character Cards Based version, if participants pretend to be the characters shown on their cards.)
2. Gaining mastery in using sentence patterns to describe different individuals’ likes and dislikes:
When talking about other people’s preferences:
“Ann would be very interested in a job involving computers and science.”
“Ann would be interested in a job involving equipment, law, and math.”
“Ann is OK with a job involving communication and tools.”
“Ann would not be interested in a job involving creativity and music.”
“Ann would hate doing a job involving art.”
“Is earning a lot of money important to Ann?”
“How willing is Ann to do a physically active job?”
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When talking about one’s own preferences or role-playing as one of the 18 characters:
“I would be very interested in a job involving ___________________.”
“I would be interested in a job involving ___________________.”
“I is OK with a job involving ___________________.”
“I would not be interested in a job involving ___________________.“
“I would hate doing a job involving ___________________.“
“Is earning a lot of money important to you.”
“How willing are you to do a physically active job?”
Self-Assessment:
After ended a round of any of the Survey Activities shown on this page, learners can check their own accuracy by comparing the information they’ve collected on the Survey Sheet to either the Survey Info Table or the Character Cards, depending on which resource their instructor has prepared.
If the information on their Survey Sheet doesn’t match the information on either of those resources, learners will naturally think about why they got it wrong and self-assess the correctness of their speaking/listening.
Given the natural human desire to do things well, learners who recognize that they have made errors will typically seek out help from a classmate or instructor. However, if they don’t, it might be helpful to gently encourage them to do.
Graduation:
Due to only a moderate level of engagement, Survey Activities do not have a high level of repeatability. Therefore, it is recommended to only use the activity types described on this page just one time to initially practice/introduce the included learning content and not set any graduation criteria.
The far more engaging and repeatable Career Preferences Deduction Challenge can be used for follow-up practice of comparable learning content.Â
Finally, if the instructor wishes to, they can use one of the Survey Activities at the end of the learning unit to allow their learners to demonstrate their own progress (and to check if they have reached a sufficient level of mastery for this activity’s Learning Goals).
1. Introduce the Core Vocabulary Words and encourage the students to learn them.Â
2. Demonstrate the correct use of the Core Vocabulary Words and Sentences/ Sentence Patterns to ask and answer survey questions.
3. Distribute the required materials and allow the students to complete one of the Survey Activity Types.
4. The activity continues until one or more participants complete their Survey Sheets or until the available activity time has been used up.
5. Have the students check their own work against the available Career Preferences Survey Info Tables or Career Preference Character Cards.
6. Ensure that all students understand how to improve on any mistakes they may have made while asking or answering questions during the activity.
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If Cheat Sheets are not utilized, students should be required to demonstrate sufficient memorization of the Core Vocabulary Words before they are approved to participate in the Survey activity.Â
For classes with only 1 student, the instructor will also need to be the student’s practice partner.
1. Authentic Survey
Learners can use this survey-taking activity format to survey real people (classmates, family members, etc) and collect information about their personal preferences on difference job characteristics. The available survey-taking sheets have empty spaces to write names. This type of activity is suitable for environments where students have easy access to sufficient number of people, such as parents, who can answer questions for the survey. In the case of classes with at least 12 participants, an instructor can split the class in half and each half can take turns surveying the members of the other half.
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2. Character Cards Based Survey
Suitable for a class of 12 or more learners (although 16+ is ideal), this survey-taking format uses character cards to ensure that participants get practice giving a wider variety of answers. Instead of answering survey questions based on their own opinions/preferences/situations, the participants answering survey questions play the role of one of the characters featured on one of the provided character cards and answer questions based on that character’s card.
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3. Info Table Based Survey
Best for younger and less experienced learners, in this simple format, participants are given a survey form and they can then take turns asking survey questions to one person (usually a teacher), who has a complete Info Table answer key for all 18 characters.
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4. Information Trading Survey
This is the most efficient format for practicing collecting information, since participants can simultaneous collect and share information. Each participant is given a survey-taking sheet of information with a portion of the information missing. As each sheet features a unique but limited portion of the complete information, activity participants need to circulate around the classroom to find someone with the information they are missing.
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For 2 participants:
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For 4-40 participants:
Regular Authentic Survey Form
with 12 Career Preferences
Authentic Survey Form
with an Example First Row
Preferences Info Table
2 Survey Sheets
Information Trading Sheet
Information Trading Sheet
