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LANGUAGE STUDY

#    Reporting on a survey

Look at these extracts from the text. Complete the table with the words and phrases in bold.

1    You have 33 friends now. yet within o few years you will hove lost touch with alt but a handful.

2    According to the survey. best friends ore not even the ones you see most of. but they ore the ones you think of morę often thon onyother.

3    The reseorch identiped four categories of friendship.

4    Pruners have a tendency towards making friends ęuickly.

5    Han/esters have o hardcore circle of friends despite spending long periods moking no attempt to meet them.

6    Gotherers tend to make friends eosily.

7    Men ore morę llkely to be gotherers or hon/esters. whereos women dominote the cultivator cotegory.

S One in three people admit they hove 'sileni' friends.

9 Despite the drop-out ratę ofpiends. six out of ten people claimed they value their friendships morę thon money.

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2 These findings arc from a survey of British under-30s. Complete them with appropriate words and phrases from the table in Ex 1.

1    90% of teenagers say they would turn first to their parents for advice on most subjects y, /1 the agc diffcrence.

2    tu . 27% of iwency-somelhings are parents.

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3    Six out of ten under-30s are against marriage, ; ■ t. _up-to-date stausucs

show that morę people than ever are getting married.

4    Women h h. prefer their partnera to be oldcr than themselves,

:    men prefer their partnera to be youngcr.

5    Men spend twicc as much time surfing the internet as women, /    .-'<*/ cJ>t rdćł

women spend twicc as much ume as men watchingTV soaps.

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«»'^J 1 •’ agreeing that it was totally wrong to do so.

7    33% of women S3id they would consider cosmetic surgery, " only 10% of men said they would evcr consider it.

8    3% of ovcr-18s nu r vote in a rcalityTV show than in a pclitica! election.

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3    Do you think the findings in Ex 2 would be similar in your country?

4    Turn to page 29 to conduci your own survey and to report your findings.