SE 3 Questions

Spoken English
Asking questions

"The early bird catches
the worm."
You should wake up and
start work early if you want
to succeed.
Often used to encourage
“lazy” people to get up.
Success comes to those
who prepare well and put
in effort.

"A watched pot never
boils."
Time feels longer when
you're waiting for
something to happen.
If something takes time
to finish, don't watch it
too closely because it
will seem like it's
taking forever.

"Actions speak louder than words."
What people do is more important than
what they say.
Saying that you'll do something doesn't
mean much. Actually doing it is harder
and more meaningful.

"If it ain't broke,
don't fix it."
Don't try to improve
something that
already works fairly
well. You'll probably
end up causing new
problems.

"Too many cooks
spoil the broth."
Where there are too
many people trying to
do something, they
make a mess of it.

QUESTIONS
A WISE MAN CAN
LEARN MORE FROM A
FOOLISH QUESTION
THAN A FOOL CAN
FROM WISE ANSWER

QUESTIONS
“Judge a man by his
questions rather than
by his answers.”
Voltaire

He who asks a
question is a fool for
five minutes; he who
does not ask a
question remains a
fool forever.
Chinese Proverb

When you are with really wise people,
what is the best way to learn from them?
Mike Maddock suggests that this is the
best thing to ask:
If you were me, what questions would
you be asking?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikemaddock/2013/07/09/the-best-question-to-ask-people-who-are-really-smart-so-you-can-learn-from-them/

What is the best
question you can
think to ask these
people?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikemaddock/2013/07/09/the-best-question-to-ask-people-who-are-really-smart-so-you-can-learn-from-them/

THINK BEFORE YOU ASK…
• What sort of answer do
you want?
• Information (data) -
information or facts. Then
you can bring give them
your own interpretation.

• Opinion - “What do you
think about this, what
should we do here…?”
• Ideas - “What are the
options here…why do
you think that
happened…why did
those people do that…?”

• Asking great questions
takes practice
• Start asking questions and
you will improve over
time
• Consider the answers:
good answers come from
asking good questions

• Mother Teresa (1910 –1997), was a Roman
Catholic Sister and missionary.
• Born in Macedonia, family from Albania
• Founded the Missionaries of Charity: over
4,500 sisters in 133 countries.
• Run hospices and homes for people with
HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis; soup
kitchens; dispensaries and mobile clinics;
children's and family counselling
programmes; orphanages; and schools.
• Members must adhere to the vows of
chastity, poverty, obedience, to give
"wholehearted free service to the poorest
of the poor".
• Received the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize.

• Albert Einstein 1879 – 18 1955
• German-born theoretical
physicist and philosopher of
science.
• He developed the general
theory of relativity.
• Best known for E = mc2
• He received the 1921 Nobel
Prize in Physics "for his services
to theoretical physics, and
especially for his discovery of the
law of the photoelectric effect".

• The Mona Lisa (La Gioconda in
Italian; La Joconde in French)
has been acclaimed as "the best
known, the most visited, the
most written about, the most
sung about, the most parodied
work of art in the world".
• Thought to be Lisa Gherardini,
wife of Francesco del Giocondo
• Painted 1503-1506
• On display at The Louvre
museum in Paris since 1797.

• Adolf Hitler (German 1889–
1945)
• Austrian-born
• Leader of the Nazi Party
• Chancellor of Germany
1933-1945, dictator of Nazi
Germany 1934-1945.
• Decorated veteran of WW I
• His regime was responsible
for the genocide of at least
5.5 million Jews

“YES / NO” QUESTIONS
Questions that can be
answered with a YES or NO
give limited possibility for
conversation without a follow
up question being used.
Would you like to…should we
eat here…is that…are you…
do you think…

20 QUESTIONS / GUESS WHO
You are given the identity of a real
person who was / is “well known”
written on it.
Each person will sit in a chair with
their back to the screen so that they
cannot see the image of who they
are.
Ask questions of the rest of the
group to try to find out who you are.

For example you can ask,
"Am I a female?”
“Do I act?”
“Did I discover something?”
Only questions that can be answered yes or
no are allowed
The questions cannot be either/or questions
like "Am I male or female?”
You have to ask the other people in turn.

For each person:
1. Identify them
2. Think of a good
question you would ask
them

Open-ended questions have a variety of
possible answers;
- help us to gain insight and information.
- make people give more thought to
their answers
To develop a more meaningful
conversation you could ask questions
starting with…

…who
…what
…where
…when
…how
…why

…who
Is used in asking about
a person or people:
Who opened the
door?
Who is your favourite
preacher?

…what
Used in asking for information:
What is your name?
Used in asking for repetition or
confirmation:
What did you say?
You did what?

…where
Is used asking about a place or
position:
Where do they live?
Where did they finish in the league
last year?

…when
Used in asking about time:
When did he leave?
When will the train arrive?

Often when someone is
serving you a drink they
might say, “Say when”
This means tell me when to
stop filling your glass

…how
Used in asking about manner:
How does this work?
or about condition/quality:
How was your exam? (did your
exam go)

…why
Used in asking for a reason:
Why do you say that?
Why did no one listen to the
teacher?
Why do you think that?

ASK MORE QUESTIONS
Ask follow-up questions (unless you only
want facts).
For example,
“What makes you say that?”
“Why do you think that?”
“I didn't see you last week…”
“What was the most exciting /interesting
thing that happened to you…”

SILENCE CAN HELP
Ask a question.
Wait for a response.
Listen
Wait again.
Often the person you
questioned has more
information and will bring it out
when you wait for it.

SILENCE CAN HELP
You have to be comfortable
with silence though!
People feel a need to fill silence
with noise - often they will then
bring out a critical bit of
information.
Used by police and military
interrogators.

LISTEN - REALLY LISTEN!
“Don’t Interrupt”
Interrupting:
- suggests you don't value
what they are saying
- stops their train of
thought
- directs the conversation
the way you want it to go

LISTEN - REALLY LISTEN!
Listen until they stop or
there is a convenient pause
- at that point speak, clarify,
ask, comment…

WEBLIOGRAPHY
I look at numerous sources in compiling teaching - here are a few
used as I prepared this:
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/how-amazingly-good-
asking-questions.html
http://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask
http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikemaddock/2013/07/09/the-best-question-
to-ask-people-who-are-really-smart-so-you-can-learn-from-
them/
Read more : http://www.ehow.com/how_4510400_play-who-am-i-party.
html

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