Today we had a "fagdag", which is a whole day with international English. We spend the whole day working with both an oral presentation and some tasks on p. 123 in our English book.
5 - Working with statistics
Look at the UK diagram on page 110. What are the two largest groups? What are the two smallest groups. Did anything surprise you about the order of size of ethnic groups in the United Kingdom?
The two largest groups on the diagram were the white ethnic group, having a percent of 87.5, and the Indian ethnic group with a percent of 2.7. The two smallest groups were the ethnic group called other black on the diagram and they had a percent of 0.2. The second smallest group was under the category other Asian, having a percent of 0.7. I wasn´t really surprised by the diagram because this was expected from the UK. I have always known that they didn´t have a large number of immigrants and ethnic groups compared to how big the ethnic white group population is. The only strange thing with this diagram is that the last column is referred to as other black, what does this mean? They had already mentioned black African and black Caribbean.
b. Look at the USA diagram on page 110. What are the two largest groups? What are the two smallest groups? Did anything surprise you about the order of size of ancestry group in the USA?
The largest group on the cart was the German and African American ancestries. The German consisted of 50.2 million and the African American was 38 million. The two smallest groups were Swedish, who consisted of 4.3 million and Scotish- Irish who consisted of 3.5 million. The only thing that surprised me by the chart, was the amount of German ancestries. Personally, I thought that the American column would be bigger because it´s a very central country.
5 - Working with statistics
Look at the UK diagram on page 110. What are the two largest groups? What are the two smallest groups. Did anything surprise you about the order of size of ethnic groups in the United Kingdom?
The two largest groups on the diagram were the white ethnic group, having a percent of 87.5, and the Indian ethnic group with a percent of 2.7. The two smallest groups were the ethnic group called other black on the diagram and they had a percent of 0.2. The second smallest group was under the category other Asian, having a percent of 0.7. I wasn´t really surprised by the diagram because this was expected from the UK. I have always known that they didn´t have a large number of immigrants and ethnic groups compared to how big the ethnic white group population is. The only strange thing with this diagram is that the last column is referred to as other black, what does this mean? They had already mentioned black African and black Caribbean.
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The largest group on the cart was the German and African American ancestries. The German consisted of 50.2 million and the African American was 38 million. The two smallest groups were Swedish, who consisted of 4.3 million and Scotish- Irish who consisted of 3.5 million. The only thing that surprised me by the chart, was the amount of German ancestries. Personally, I thought that the American column would be bigger because it´s a very central country.
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