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  1. Complete the following sentences:

  • Statistics is a range of procedures for…

  • ‘Data’ usually refers to quantitative…

  • Statistics helps us turn data…

  • Statistics is the systematic collection and…

  • Statistics can be divided into…

  • Descriptive statistics is concerned with…

  • Inferential (analytical) statistics makes inferences about….

  • Using appropriate statistics, you will be able to make…

  1. Ask 10 general questions to the text.

  2. Answer the following questions:

    1. What does the term “data” mean?

    2. What does statistics analyze?

    3. What branches can statistics be divided?

    4. What is descriptive statistics concerned with?

    5. What does inferential statistics deal with?

    6. What does inferential statistics start with?

    7. What is the major problem any researcher faces?

  3. Get ready to speak about what statistics is. Use the following phrases:

    • I’d like to say a few words about …

    • The first

    • Essentially therefore….

    • This means that….

    • Put formally…

    • In very broad terms…

    • To sum everything up …

Present tenses Present Simple. Present Continuous. State Verbs

  1. Choose the best endings for sentences 1-8.

  1. Fiona is watching television (a) because her favourite film star is on.

b when she has time

  1. I'm having my lunch a at one o'clock every day.

b early today as I have an appointment.

  1. I do the shopping a at the same time every week.

b today for a friend who's ill.

  1. What are you doing a to your sister when she behaves badly?

b to your sister? Leave her alone!

  1. I wear casual clothes a at the weekend.

b because we're having a party at lunchtime.

  1. Teachers work hard a to get the concert ready for next week.

b but they get long holidays.

  1. The company's financial a now that it has a new Chief Executive, situation is improving

b when there is greater demand for its products.

  1. Serge is thinking of retiring early a every time something bad happens at work.

b because he isn't happy at work any more.

2. Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

    1. I'm busy right now. I ________ (fill in) an application form for a new job.

    2. My tutor ___________ (see) me for a tutorial every Monday at two o'clock.

    3. John ________ (not/study) very hard at the moment. I ________ (not/think) he'll pass his exams.

    4. 'What _________ (he/do)?' 'He __________ (try) to fix the television aerial.'

    5. Animals __________ (breathe in) oxygen and _________ (give out) carbon dioxide.

    6. Be quiet! I ___________ (want) to hear the news.

    7. In my country we ___________ (drive) on the right-hand side of the road.

    8. My friend Joe's parents _________ (travel) round the world this summer, and probably won't be back for a couple of months.

    9. The college ___________ (run) the same course every year.

10 Numbers of wild butterflies _______ (fall) as a result of changes in farming methods.