Sunday, 5 December 2021

Power of Qs and 16 Qs for English speakers!

 "The answers you get depend on the questions you ask,” said Thomas Kuhn, an American Philosopher of Science. Always questioning is one area that attracts me - especially with children!Here are my favorite four reasons on why I love questioning!

** Questioning is the art of learning. Learning to ask the right questions and important questions is an important skill and it is the best evidence of understanding! 

** A question not only gives one/many answers - but it also gives rise to many questions. Curiosity gets triggered for every question and every answer!

** Questioning is a first step in solving problems. It makes us more successful as leaders, students and happier persons!

** Questioning opens up new possibilities in our lives - and it is true in Spoken English also! Do you agree with me friends?

When it comes to questioning/ doing a research on any specific topic - top most shortcuts are 5 Ws & 1 H😅

5Ws stand for What, Why, When, Where, and Who. 1H stands for How.



It is a technique we also use as a project management tool to improve the efficiency!

This is also the most powerful and popular method to analyze the problem.

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The 5 Ws and 1H that are considered to be basic and powerful in information gathering are: 

  • Who is it about?
  • What happened?
  • When did it take place?
  • Where did it take place?
  • Why did it happen?
  • How did it happen?

Each question should have a factual answer-the facts necessary to complete the understanding. Most importantly, none of these questions can be answered with a simple "Yes" or "No". Try asking these for any of your problem/research activity in hand! 

Wel, Today I have compiled six sets of questions - which I thought would be helpful for you all to develop English Speaking! 



You could find more such examples and audio/video lessons for above set of questions in https://www.talkenglish.com/ under the topic "English Speaking Basics".

 Can you think of 16 Questions for the above starters?
Please comment below (or) send your questions by email to zoomtalks@gmail.com.
Would love to hear more from your day-to-day usage!
Ok then, let's catch up in next post in another interesting topic.

With love, Akhila😊

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