Opinion polls
Sometimes you need data about people’s opinions to include in an assignment. For example, a recent opinion poll asked who should be the next British monarch after Queen Elizabeth II.
These polling companies publish some of their results online:
YouGov and Ipsos MORI have partner sites in other countries. Some examples of their polls:
- Garuda Indonesia is the most positively perceived brand in Indonesia
- Eight in 10 Saudis agree women should drive in the Kingdom
- 43% of Chinese nationals have used internet dating
- Americans Would Rather Renovate than Buy a New Home
You can also find polling data on the statistics site, Statista.
RSA videos
The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, more usually known as the Royal Society of Arts or the RSA, was founded in 1754. Even the internet didn’t exist then! Now that it does, the RSA has taken advantage of the fact by publishing videos of talks, some with animations.
For example, you can listen to South Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang on Economics is for Everyone:
You can watch the videos on the society’s own website or on YouTube.
Drama Online
Drama Online has over 2,200 plays which you can read online. You can browse them by title, playwright, period or genre (for example, Theatre of the Absurd, Asian drama, Children’s theatre, Feminist theatre, Musical theatre, Street theatre).
From The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde:
Lady Bracknell: Are your parents living?
Jack: I have lost both my parents.
Lady Bracknell: Both? To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune — to lose both seems like carelessness.
From Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett:
Vladimir: Pull on your trousers.
Estragon: You want me to pull off my trousers?
Vladimir: Pull ON your trousers.
Estragon: (Realizing his trousers are down.) True. (He pulls up his trousers.)
Vladimir: Well? Shall we go?
Estragon: Yes, let’s go.
They do not move.
