Scan the report on the results of a survey showing how British people travel to work every day. While scanning through the report fill in the gaps in the table

As far as public transport is concerned, of all male respondents, thirty-three percent said that they preferred to use the train to get to and from work, which differs very slightly from a figure of thirty-two percent for women. Of course trains represent only a small part of all commuter services because the vast majority of people are employed in their own locality. Now, when it comes to that other great British commuting tradition – the bus – thirteen percent of men were willing to queue for the bus, as opposed to just seven percent of women. And for those who envisage themselves as needing to travel to work in luxury, taxis polled a mere two percent of male respondents, as opposed to seven percent of women who were willing to go to the expense of being driven to work, while the percentage of men that preferred to drive themselves to work was fifty-one, slightly higher than the figure of forty-nine for women. As for pedal power, men seem to be more inclined to go to work on two wheels, with eleven percent of them responding affirmatively to the question as to whether they would be prepared to get slightly breathless on the way to work, with a corresponding figure for women being only five percent. It would seem as though men, at least as far as the results of this survey bear out, are more willing to expend physical energy, rather than money, on their daily commuting.

When it came to the level of general satisfaction with public transport, men were generally “very satisfied” with the rail service, while women recorded a verdict of “moderately satisfied”. Respondents were less favourable to buses than to trains, with men being “moderately satisfied” with services in contrast to “total dissatisfaction” in the case of women. Of course it can’t be overstated that public opinion surveys of this type are extremely susceptible to erroneous results and are rarely a good basis on which to base public transport policy in isolation; there’s a whole range of social and other factors to be taken into consideration.

When reporting the survey’s findings in front of the class use the following prompts and the suggested answer key patterns.

· most/least popular among(st)…

· more /less frequently used by…

· rarely used by either group

· satisfaction levels among(st) … are high/low/moderate