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    The document provides information about different types of questions in English including direct questions, subject questions, questions with prepositions, short questions, indirect questions, negative questions, and examples of each. It discusses word order in questions, when auxiliary verbs are needed, common prepositions used in questions, question forms used in conversation, indirect question forms and introductory phrases, and the meaning implied by "yes" and "no" answers to negative questions. Students are assigned practice exercises on questions from their textbook.

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    The document provides information about different types of questions in English including direct questions, subject questions, questions with prepositions, short questions, indirect questions, negative questions, and examples of each. It discusses word order in questions, when auxiliary verbs are needed, common prepositions used in questions, question forms used in conversation, indirect question forms and introductory phrases, and the meaning implied by "yes" and "no" answers to negative questions. Students are assigned practice exercises on questions from their textbook.

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    QUESTIONS,

    QUESTIONS,
    QUESTIONS…
    EOI Avançat
    18-19
    Direct questions
    •  Word order?
    (Qu word) + Auxiliary verb + subject + main verb

    What does ‘strategy’ mean?


    Have you finished yet?
    Subject questions
    •  Subject of the sentence?
    Adrian wrote a letter to Ann
    Who wrote a letter to Ann?
    When the subject of a question coincides with the question
    word…
    …no auxiliaries are needed and the word order is of an…
    …affirmative sentence (Subject + verb)
    Who does want something to eat?
    Who wants something to eat
    What did happen next?
    What happened next?
    Which bus does go to the centre?
    Which bus goes to the centre?
    Prepositions in questions
    •  They usually come at the end
    Which job did you apply for?
    What are you working on?
    What was Thailand like?
    (here ‘like’ is a preposition and the question is
    asking for a description)
    •  In very formal English, prepositions can come at the
    beginning
    In which website did you read it?
    To whom do you wish to speak?
    Short questions
    •  Common in conversation
    •  Often end in a preposition

    -  A: I’m going out tonight


    -  B: Where to? Who with?
    -  A: I’m thinking
    -  B: What about?
    -  A: I didn’t go to the party
    -  B: How come? Why not?
    -  A: I hate spicy food
    -  B: Why’s that?/ Such as?
    INDIRECT QUESTIONS
    •  They are used…
    …to ask more politely
    …to ask very personal questions
    •  Form
    An opening clause + affirmative form
    Could you tell me what time does the lesson start?
    Could you tell me what time the lesson starts?
    INDIRECT QUESTIONS
    •  Form in yes/no questions:
    use if/whether + affirmative form
    Do you know if Mike’s married?
    I would ask them whether they can pay me three months in
    advance
    INDIRECT QUESTIONS
    •  Some opening phrases…
    Can I ask you…?
    Do you have any idea…?
    Would you mind telling me…?
    What/Why/When/Who do you think…?
    I was wondering…
    I wonder…
    I’d like to know…
    INDIRECT QUESTIONS
    •  Use a question mark ONLY if the introductory phrase
    contains a question
    I wonder where Michael is.
    Can I ask you how much you paid for it?

    •  With very personal questions, start with


    Can I ask a personal question?
    And now some practiceJ
    •  Do exercise 5A in your photocopies
    Further practice
    Further practice
    Further practice
    Further practice key
    Negative questions
    •  Meaning
    To check information in the negative form
    Why didn’t you tell me?
    What don’t you like about your appearance?
    To show surprise
    Didn’t you hear the doorbell?
    Why didn’t you like the film?
    When we expect the listener to agree with us
    Isn’t this a beautiful place?
    Haven’t we met somewhere before?
    Negative questions
    •  Note the meaning of ‘yes’ and ‘no’ in answers:
    Don’t you want to go to the party?
    Yes
    (=Yes, I want to go)
    No
    (=No, I don’t want to go)
    •  Notice the word order with ‘why’
    Why we don’t go out to the cinema tonight?
    Why don’t we go out to the cinema tonight?
    •  And with full forms
    Are you not going to come? Why did you not tell me?
    Homework
    Please, do at home p.132, exercises a) and b) from your
    textbook
    p. 132
    p. 132 - key
    Further practice
    Further practice
    Key
    Key

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