Answer example of international academic conference Q & A session in English
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When oral (oral) report at an international conference, question and answer session is very important. Here are examples of common answer respondents.
1. beginning polite
- Thank you for asking that question.
- I am glad you asked that question.
- That’s a good [important/ excellent/interesting/ difficult/ complicated/ ] question.
- That’s a great question. Thank you for asking.
2. did not catch the problem
- Sorry, I didn’t catch all of that. Could you repeat your question, please?
- Sorry, could you repeat your question, please?
- I beg your pardon?
- I’m afraid I don’t understand. Could you please rephrase the question?
3. Let me think about it
- Well, let me see…
- Actually, …
- Let me think for a moment. Ah, yes, …
4. unrelated issues
- That’s an interesting question, but my presentation doesn’t really deal with that issue.
- That’s a good question but, unfortunately, it’s beyond the scope of this presentation.
5. asked to key
- Sorry, it seems that you are right. Thank you for pointing out that and I will try my best to amend it in my later work.
6. positive answer
- I will explain by some examples.
- I’d like to make a few comments on/explanation about…
- We have explained our rational fully in the paper.
- I can give you some quantitative evidence to explain this.
- I'd like to give further explanation for xxxx.
- I think I can give you a few general comments on/explanation about…
- To comment on the question of you, I have made comparison between… and…
- My idea is on the basis of two points. The first is..., the second is...
- In my opinion, the conclusion can be supported by the experimental result that…
- There were several reasons for this. First…
7. Future research
- We have not tested/tried xxxx, but it would certainly be interesting to do so.
- We are now working on this problem, and if you agree, I will answer your question in a few weeks.
- I did notice this problem and plan to resolve it by designing a method of xxxxxx.
- The answer to this question is going to need further study.
- As far as I know, no enough study has been made in the area.
- We are awaiting further research on this issue.
- We need to do more studies to answer this problem.
8. I do not know how to answer when
- Unfortunately, I cannot answer that question at the moment.
- I’m afraid I cannot give you an answer.
- Excuse me, I’m afraid time doesn’t permit us to go into that subject.
- I’m afraid the question is too complicated to be answered with a few words.
- Sorry. I'm afraid I know little about that matter. So I don't think I can answer your question right now.
- I’d like to discuss it with you after the session.
- It is a good question and I have no answer at this moment. Can I have your e-mail so that I can email you my possible new findings later?
- I’m sorry. I still don’t understand your question. Could I come back to you later? Could you please talk to me after the session?
- I cannot quite remember, I'll need to do a little checking and get back to you.
- I'm afraid it's a bit difficult for me to present some experimental data at the moment to support the theory since my idea is mainly out of theoretical consideration.
- I have had very little experience with this matter.
- I'm sorry my experience/knowledge about your question is very limited so I think I cannot give a good answer to your question.
9. 回答问题后的表示
- Does that answer your question?
- Is that OK?
- Is my explanation clear enough?
- I wonder whether my question is helpful to you.
- I hope this answers your questions.
- I don’t know whether that is a satisfactory answer.