Presentations- Surveying the Audience
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Asking questions to get responses from the audience as a hook at the start of presentations review, including defining good hooks, making suitable examples, and brainstorming phrases for the process of using them.
Lesson Plan Content:
Surveying the audience in presentations
What are the criteria for a good use of surveying the audience in presentations? Compare your ideas with the list below:
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Criteria for good surveying the audience in presentations
- The presenter learns something useful, e.g. something which will affect the content of the presentation or will change their approach to presenting that information.
- Answering the question hooks the audience
- Seeing other people’s answers hooks the audience (looking around to see if other people have their hands up, etc)
- The result of the survey is surprising/ is interesting
- People are happy to answer (because the question is not too personal)
- People don’t have to think for too long before answering
- The question has a limited number of options (e.g. Yes/ No or three options with “Raise your hand if you’ve had under three cups of coffee today. Now put up your hand if you’ve between three and five” etc).
Try to think of questions to ask the people in this class which would match those criteria.
Possible topics
Ambitions/ Goals Arts and media
Childhood Computers/ Technology
Favourites/ Likes and dislikes/ Tastes Friends and family
Health and fitness Hobbies/ Interests
(General) knowledge/ Guessing statistics Meaning/ Origins of your name
Near future Opinions
Possessions Recent past
Recognising a picture of something Routines/ Habits
Things they have/ haven’t heard of Travel
Unusual experiences Work/ Studies/ Volunteering
Brainstorm phrases to do these things:
- Asking the survey question
- Asking people to vote/ put their hands up
- Persuading people to take part/ Dealing with a reluctant audience
- Reacting to the responses
- Giving the answer (to factual questions)
Compare your phrases as a class or with lists. Use those phrases to ask the survey questions that you made, then discuss which survey questions best hooked the audience.
What are the advantages of survey questions over other kinds of questions in a presentation?
What other kinds of presenter questions are good in presentations/ okay in presentations?
Write criteria for good use of those other kinds of questions.
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