These materials can be used for collecting information from real people (classmates, parents, or others) or collecting information from classmates pretending to be the people depicted on the provided Character Preference Cards, including that character’s personal preferences as shown on the card.
The key difference between the authentic survey forms and the survey forms for other survey activity types, is that the names of the people being surveyed are not already filled in, so the survey-takers will need to collect the names of the people they survey and write them into the provided spaces on their survey forms.
The following files are necessary for students to be able to practice this Survey-Taking activity version.
Authentic Survey Forms
Survey Forms
Included Core Vocabulary:
cloudy, cold, cool, freezing, hot, snowy, stormy, sunny, warm, weather, windy
The following Character Preference Cards printables are available if an instructors wishes to have surveyees pretend to be the characters on the cards, rather than answering the survey questions based on their own personal preferences. This will generally result in a wider variety in the survey answers.
Character Preference Cards
Card-Back Patterns
Cheat Sheets
These materials make it easier to ensure that learners practicing survey-taking will get a wide range of responses from the classmates they interview, as well as providing phonics decoding/encoding practice. Each person being surveyed will pretend to be the character depicted on a Character Preference Card and use that character’s name and communicate that character’s personal preferences.
However, unlike the Authentic Surveys version, the provided Survey-Taking Sheets already have a selection of the activity’s 18 characters listed on them, so participants will have to seek out specific people (who are playing the role of those characters).
The following files are needed for students to be able to complete the Character Cards Based Survey activity.
Character Preference Cards
18 Printable Cards
Included Core Vocabulary:
cloudy, cold, cool, freezing, hot, snowy, stormy, sunny, warm, weather, windy
Phonics Practice Character Names:
Ann, Ben, Bess, Beth, Bill, Dan, Jan, Jen, Jess, Jill, Jim, Ken, Kim, Sim, Tess, Tim, Tom, Will
Survey Forms (Character Names from the Cards)
Printable Survey Forms With 18 Characters’ Names
Included Core Vocabulary:
cloudy, cold, cool, freezing, hot, snowy, stormy, sunny, warm, weather, windy
Phonics Practice Character Names:
Ann, Ben, Bess, Beth, Bill, Dan, Jan, Jen, Jess, Jill, Jim, Ken, Kim, Sim, Tess, Tim, Tom, Will
The following files are not required, but serve useful optional purposes.
Card-Back Patterns
Answer Key
Cheat Sheets
These materials are ideal for Survey-Taking practice with younger, less confident learners. Instead of having learners interview a variety of people, with these materials, the students in a classroom can take turns using verbal communication in English to collecting information from a teacher (or other student) based on the Survey Info Table.
With this format, the students will benefit not only from the speaking/listening practice, but also from hearing others utilize/demonstrate the required Sentence Patterns and Core Vocabulary Words.
The following files are necessary for students to be able to practice this Survey-Taking activity version.
Survey Info Table (With Preference Information for 18 Characters)
Info Table With 18 Characters’ Names & Preferences
Included Core Vocabulary:
cloudy, cold, cool, freezing, hot, snowy, stormy, sunny, warm, weather, windy
Phonics Practice Character Names:
Ann, Ben, Bess, Beth, Bill, Dan, Jan, Jen, Jess, Jill, Jim, Ken, Kim, Sim, Tess, Tim, Tom, Will
Survey Forms (Character Names from the Info Table)
Survey Forms – Each With a Selection of the Activity’s 18 Characters
Included Core Vocabulary:
cloudy, cold, cool, freezing, hot, snowy, stormy, sunny, warm, weather, windy
Phonics Practice Character Names:
Ann, Ben, Bess, Beth, Bill, Dan, Jan, Jen, Jess, Jill, Jim, Ken, Kim, Sim, Tess, Tim, Tom, Will
The following files are not required, but serve useful optional purposes.
Cheat Sheets
These materials can be used to practice asking and answering questions about different people’s personal preferences. Since each participant’s Information Trading Survey Sheet has a different mix of the activity’s collective personal preference data (about 18 characters) all of the participants will need to both ask and answer questions in order to complete their own Survey Sheet and help others complete theirs.
The following files are necessary for students to be able to practice this Survey activity version.
Information Trading Survey Forms
Printable Survey Forms – For Pair Work
Included Core Vocabulary:
cloudy, cold, cool, freezing, hot, snowy, stormy, sunny, warm, weather, windy
Phonics Practice Character Names:
Ann, Ben, Bess, Beth, Bill, Dan, Jan, Jen, Jess, Jill, Jim, Ken, Kim, Sim, Tess, Tim, Tom, Will
The following files are not required, but serve useful optional purposes.
Cheat Sheets