Ex. 2.Discuss the questions below.

1.Why do people ask questions during a presentation?

2. What are the advantages in opening up a dialogue?

3. What are the disadvantages?

4. When do you invite questions? Why?

Which of the following statements do you aree or disagree with? Why?

WHEN DO YOU TAKE QUESTIONS?

1. For me it’s a big enough problem to get through the presentation and to do it in Enlish. I really don’t want to worry about understanding and answering questions on top of everything else. I ask the audience to leave the questions until the end or even to write me an email afterwards. That gives me more time to think about the answers.

2. I have to do a lot of project proposal presentations and it’s important that my audiences understand the the whole argumentation and the background to the proposal before they ask questions. An interactive presentation would simply disturb the flow of the arguments. If there is a long question and answer session though, I always make another quick summary and conclusion so that the main message isn’t lost. I believe this gives a better sense of closure too.

3. At the beginning of the presentation I make it clear that I’ll take about three or four questions at the end of every point. I move on to the next point as soon as I’ve answered about four questions. This lets me manage and control the presentation and I can keep to my timing. It also makes the audience really concentrate on asking relevant and clear questions.

4. If you want to allow questions during your presentation, you have to be really well-prepared.You have to be able to comeback to your structure and get things back on track. Another advantage of good presentation is that you can refer the question forward to a later point in the presentation if this is in your structure. You don’t waste time then and the audience can see how well you are managing the presentation. It creates a good impression.

5. Actually, I much prefer to have lots of questions in the presentation even when the presentation is in English. I think it suits my personality much better as I can talk with people and not to people (dialogue rather than a monologue). It’s all about building up a relationship and that’s the most important thing in my line of business.

6. If I’m presenting in English to a multicultural audience and they ll have different levels of English, I think it is absolutely vital to allow questions at any time. There could be things that people simply don’t understand and that it’s important to clarify as soon as possible. If I don’t do this, I could get to the conclusion and people wouldn’t understand it.

Text 3. Summarise in 8-10 sentences.

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