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Questions and Question Words
Practice asking and answering questions.
1. Warm up
Ask and answer the quiz questions. If you don’t know the answer, take a guess.
1. How many strings does a violin have?
2. How many sides does an octagon have?
3. How many legs does a butterfly have?
4. How do you say hello in Japanese?
5. How many dots does one die (dice) have?
6. When and where did the first modern Olympics begin?
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2. Question Words
A. Which question words do you use to talk about 1-10?
How many When How How long Which
How often Where Who What Why
1. People 6. In what way or manner
2. Things 7. The number of times
3. Places 8. A period of time
4. Times 9. A type of thing
5. The reason 10. The number of things
B. Match the questions to the best response.
1. ______ How often do you study English? a. None. I’m an only child.
2. ______ Which days do you study English? b. I study English and listen to music.
3. ______ How long does it take to get to class? c. About twenty minutes.
4. ______ When does your class start? d. My parents and my brother.
5. ______ Who do you live with? e. By bicycle and on foot.
6. ______ How do you commute to class? f. Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.
7. ______ What do you do on weekends? g. Half past nine in the morning.
8. ______ How many brothers and sisters do you have? h. Three times a week.
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3. Practice
A. Review the construction of questions using the auxiliary verb ‘do’.
Question word + Noun Auxiliary verb Subject Main verb Prepositional phrase
1. What sports do you play on the weekend?
2. What time does the movie start?
B. Put the words in the correct order (unscramble) to form questions.
1. Mondays? / do / what / you / on / do
2. play? / do / what / you / sports
3. every week? / many / how / do / times / study / you / English
4. What / you / listen to? / kind of / do / music
C. Write the questions for the following answers. Review Part 3A for help.
1. 4.
I go to school by train. I eat lunch at 12 o’clock.
2. 5.
I study English three times a week. I play tennis on Saturdays.
3. 6.
I wake up at 9 o’clock every day. I play tennis with my friend.
4. Conversation
A. Fill the gaps to complete the questions.
1. Where you live? 6. pets you have?
2. do you live with? 7. will you this weekend?
3. How do you do exercise? 8. do you for breakfast?
4. do you do on weekends? 9. kind of food you like?
5. do you wake up everyday? 10. languages do you speak?
B. Ask and answer the questions above. Changes roles and practice again.
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