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Theme: Festivals / Special Occasions Genre: Survey Report A survey report summarises the data gathered from a survey aiming at collecting opinions on certain issues. Details of Writing Task Rubrics: Your school is going to organise a Teacher’s Day. Your English teacher has asked each student to conduct a survey to collect students’ opinions on how to organise this meaningful event. Each of you has to prepare a list of questions and interview your classmates to seek their opinions about (1) how best to organise the event and (2) their opinions on celebrating Teacher’s Day. Then you have to write a survey report and present the findings in front of the class. Features: Context: Class presentation Writer: A secondary one student Audience: The form teachers and fellow classmates Target Language: i) Wh-Questions ii) Summarising quantitative data Pre-writing Activities Procedure of Conducting a Survey 1A: Before we start to write a survey report, we have to conduct a survey with our respondents (in this case your classmates). The procedure of conducting a survey is listed below. Re-arrange the procedure in the correct order. List of procedural elements in a survey: Prepare a list of questions. Write the survey report. Identify the target respondents Decide on the topic of the survey, Conduct interviews to collect data. Analyse, compile and summarise the data. Answer: ____ ( ____ ( ____ ( _____ ( ____ ( ____ 2. Structure of a Survey Report A survey report usually consists of the following elements in the list below. Structural Elements of a Survey Report Background information: The purpose and subjects of the survey Summary of the results of the survey Conclusion 2A: Now read the report below and fill in the blanks with the structural elements provided in the box. Background Information Summary Conclusion To understand more about students’ opinions on festivals, last month I conducted a survey abou