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census –
rural population –
urban population –
essential feature –
to select –
to leave out –
to be familiar –
to carry out –
to cover –
birth and death rates –
literacy –
workforce –
life expectancy –
size and composition of population –
to be held –
annual growth rate –
sample survey –
representative sample –
reliable and accurate information –
random sampling –
Task 3. Answer the questions:
1. What is census?
2. What is the essential feature of the method of complete Enumeration?
3. What does ‘population or the universe’ in statistics mean?
4. What is a population?
5. What is the first task in selecting a sample?
6. Why should the researcher select a Representative Sample?
7. What are two main types of sampling?
8. What is random sampling?
9. What is Exit poll?
10. What can you say about non-random sampling?
Task 4. Work in pairs. Role-play the conversation below. You are at a conference. You recognize someone you met at conference two years ago. Introduce yourself and make small talk.
Participant A
• You met B two years ago at a conference on Customer Care in Frankfurt.
• You own a small firm, which sells office equipment.
• It’s your first day at the conference - you arrived late last night.
• You haven’t seen the city yet.
• You are staying at the Grand Hotel in the city center (a good choice: room service and the facilities are excellent).
• You are leaving in three days time.
• The conference will be very interesting.
Participant B
• You met A two years ago at a conference on Customer Care in Frankfurt.
• You are the sales manager for a large telecommunications company.
• You have been at the conference for three days.
• You have visited the city (beautiful old cathedral, interesting museum, excellent restaurants, but very expensive).
• You are staying at a small hotel outside the city (a bad choice: room too small, too far from the center of the city).
• You are leaving tomorrow.
• The conference is boring – the speakers talk too much and go overtime.
Task 5. Match the phrases with the definitions. Make up sentences with each of them.
· to call off an event | 1.to walk through it, looking at different rooms and the furniture in them |
· to cut down on cigarettes | 2. to accept it |
· to look round a house | 3. to get rid of them because you no longer need them |
· to take up an invitation | 4. to cancel it because it won’t take place |
· to throw out old files | 5. smoke less than before |
Базові підручники
Осадча Т. Ю. Англійська мова для студентів спеціальності «Прикладна статистика»: навч. посіб. / Т. Ю. Осадча; Держ. закл. «Луган. нац. ун-т імені Тараса Шевченка» — Луганськ: Вид-во ДЗ «ЛНУ імені Тараса Шевченка», 2010. – 154 с.
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