Obama took the podium

[flowersa]

I have a lot of questions but I'm really trying to understand it guys

When someone taking the podium it means he started to talk to the people?

"On the appointed evening, Obama took the podium in a cavernous ballroom at a Walt Disney World hotel"

[Shenfeng]

I have a lot of questions but I'm really trying to understand it guys

When someone takes the podium, does it mean they start to talk to people?
or
When someone takes the podium, does that mean they start talking to people?

"On the appointed evening, Obama took the podium in a cavernous ballroom at a Walt Disney World hotel"

Yes, that's correct. Obama went up to the podium and delivered his speech.

[bhaisahab]

I have a lot of questions but I'm really trying to understand it guys

When someone taking the podium it means he started to talk to the people?

"On the appointed evening, Obama took the podium in a cavernous ballroom at a Walt Disney World hotel"

Have you looked up "podium" in a dictionary?

[flowersa]

Yes, that's correct. Obama went up to the podium and delivered his speech.

Hi Shenfeng, thanks for the reply and for correcting me

[flowersa]

Have you looked up "podium" in a dictionary?

Hi bhaisahab sure but I tried to understand the sentence as whole meaning I did thanks to Shenfeng

[BobSmith]

Have you looked up "podium" in a dictionary?

[not a teacher]

It might be clear from this definition that "took" implies that he steped up on to the dais, or up to the lectern, but does it mean that he started speaking?

[flowersa]

Hi, first I had those phrases that talked about a public reaction, but later on Gibbs returning to it and saying "whether that would connect" , what did he meant?

“What do you have in mind?” Gibbs asked his boss.
“I’ve got some stuff I’d like to try out,” Obama said. “I want
to see what the reaction is.”

Here what Gibbs said later ...

“If you wanted to know whether that would connect,”
Gibbs replied, “I think you got your answer.”

[flowersa]

Hi, I meant to open my last post in a new thread by accident I posted here ...