Surveys are a popular speaking task, and in most textbooks are presented in the format of student A has a list of questions to ask student B, then student B asks the same questions of student A. If you want to collate the results for a class, it tends to be quite time-consuming.

Here's an alternative that works if you have more questions than participants. If the class size is large, or there aren't many questions, then split the class into groups.

Every student gets a strip of paper with one question and then a cloze sentence to fill in as a summary. E.g. "Did you drink fruit juice yesterday? ___ people drank fruit juice yesterday." That student needs to ask every person in the class or group, keep a record of responses and fill in the summary. The question strip is then handed in.

Even if one student is quick to finish asking their question, they will still be involved by having to answer everyone else's questions. If there are more questions than students, then the extras can be given to those who finish first. When it comes to discussing the survey results in plenum, the collation is already done!

There are other advantages to this method. Firstly, it will appeal to the students who like to move around the classroom. Secondly, if there are unknown words in the questions, the student who is in charge of the question can ask the teacher for help, and then be in a position to help the other students to understand. This cuts down on the amount of "teacher-talk" that might otherwise be required before the activity.