TEMPLATE 3 Needs analysis questionnaire

Instructions
Photocopy one sheet for each student. Explain carefully the purpose of the
forms and allow enough time for students to think and fill them in. Before
collecting them in, you might want to allow students to compare ideas with each
other.

Needs analysis
1 What is the most important thing that you need English for (now or in the future)?
For travel, study, business meetings, an exam, reading literature, friendship, emigration,
relationship, general interest, attending conferences, etc.?

2 Write five things you would like to be able to do better in English (e.g. write a letter to a
friend).
a __________________________________ d __________________________________
b __________________________________ e __________________________________
c __________________________________

3 Which of the following things do you want or need to study more of? Mark the box in the correct
places to show your opinion and then add a comment to explain why you chose that answer.

I need to I don’t I don’t Comment

study more mind want much
of this of this

Reading
Writing
Speaking
Listening
Grammar
Vocabulary/ phrases
Pronunciation
Social English
Business English

4 What do you find enjoyable, boring, easy and difficult when studying language?
a I enjoy it when …
b I get bored when …
c I find the following things quite easy:
d I find the following things quite difficult:

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