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ACTIVITIES RELATED TO THE DATA/OPINION POLLS MODULE

Students will work in the same way with the statistics and the opinion polls. You may want to ask them to work on one or on both.

Before starting

Ask students to go over the questionnaires, the class discussions and the issues raised in the forums and to make a list of the topics they would like to explore a bit further on their own about French culture (ex: on the type of housing the French live in; on their attitudes toward the police, social issues, such as health and unemployment; the electoral system, etc..)

Task for students

Tell students to:

• select a few sites and look for statistics and/or opinion polls on three topics that interest them.
• see whether the statistics or opinion polls must either confirm or contradict something they might have seen or observed.
• write a commentary on each which they will bring to class and share with their classmates.

In class

Ask students to:

• share their findings with each other. Students can write on the boards.
• At the end, make sure to have a general discussion.