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Time: 90 – 100 minutes
Level: Upper Intermediate and advanced
Target Audience: Business English
Aim: To provide students with natural ways to present graphic information without using numbers.
Warm-up: Teacher does a one-question survey. This can be very informal. You will use the results from this survey throughout
the lesson, so place this in a corner of the board. The question must have at least a 3-point scale. Example:
Do you watch English movies:
everyday? once a week? once a month?
Tally the results and write the number under each corresponding response.
Lesson: Explain to the students that they will be asked to give a 1-minute oral presentation of information exactly like this.
However, to repeat information a person can read is boring and ineffective. There are phrases and words that can be used instead
of numbers.
Draw a line across the entire board; make a mark in the middle and ask if anybody can tell you what it represents. (one half)
Divide the line into one quarter, three quarter, one third and two thirds while continuing to elicit student responses. Using
the numbers from the warm-up survey, ask them how they would place it on the graph. Introduce the phrases less than and more
than. Write a sentence on the board using the information from the example survey. Continue to introduce the following phrases
and allow student to try using them in a sentence.
most few
almost nearly
almost all very few
over under
a large percent a small percent
all none
Below is a diagram of the phrase use.
more than ¼ less than ¾
under 1/3 nearly ¾
______________________↓_____________________________↓________________________
none 1/4 1/3 1/2 1/3 3/4
all
l________________l 50% l________________l
a small →more than one half → most
per cent of ← less than one half← a large per cent
of
Activity: One Question Survey
Time: 45 minutes
Class size: 5 – 30
Have the students write their own-one question survey. Advise them to avoid questions with a yes/no answer and try to use
a three point scale.
Do you sing karaoke:
a lot? a little? never?
Do you like to watch:
action movies? comedy? romance?
Remind them they will need to count the responses they get from their question. Give the students two - three minutes to write
the question and ten minutes to ask as many people in the room as possible.
They students are now to prepare a one-minute presentation of their information. Give the students five minutes to prepare.
For large classes, they can be divided into 4-5 member groups. Students can give their presentation to other members of the
group.
Choose a few students to give the presentation to the entire class.
Students are to give the presentation using the phrases presented at the beginning of the lesson.
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