What's in our bins? A food waste survey
A community group reports on a neighbourhood food waste survey; students learn to ask non-leading survey questions, carry out their own class survey and present the results with hedged interpretation.
B2Adults50 minSurvey
About this lesson
A B2 speaking lesson (survey). Warm-ups, role plays and discussion tasks — get the whole class talking.
- Level
- B2
- Skill
- Speaking
- Type
- Survey
- Students
- Adults
- Time
- About 50 minutes
- Topic
- Food & drink
- Activities
- Key words, Speaking / writing task, Reading text, True / False, Gap-fill, Matching
- Key words
- leftovers, best-before date, use-by date, batch cooking, a leading question, roughly / approximately, a significant minority, it seems that ...
- Access
- Premium
By the end, students can
- Write clear, neutral survey questions and ask follow-up questions
- Report data with approximations and hedging (roughly, a significant minority, it seems that)
- Interpret results and propose practical changes