Welcome to your Questions & Responses lesson! In this topic we talk about:
• The two types of questions
• A few numbers
• Responding by “Yes” or “No”
• Asking for things
• Question words
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The two types of questions
- Closed questions (whose answers are either “yes” or “no”) start with an auxiliary:
“Is Steve English?”
“Are you twelve?”
- Open questions start with a question word:
“What’s your name?”
“How old are you?”
A few numbers
| 13 = thirteen | 14 = fourteen | 15 = fifteen | 16 = sixteen |
| 17 = seventeen | 18 = eighteen | 19 = nineteen | 20 = twenty |
| 21 = twenty-one | 22 = twenty-two | 23 = twenty-three | 24 = twenty-four |
| 30 = thirty | 40 = forty | 50 = fifty | 60 = sixty |
| 70 = seventy | 80 = eighty | 90 = ninety | 100 = a hundred (one hundred) |
| 101 = a hundred and one | 102 = a hundred and two | 103 = a hundred and three | 104 = a hundred and four |
Responding by “Yes” or “No”
When the first word of a question is an auxiliary, the response starts with “Yes” or “No”. We never use “Yes” or “No” alone in a short question.
- We follow “Yes” by a subject pronoun and the auxiliary:
“Is Bob English?”
“Yes, he is.”“Are you happy?”
“Yes, I am.”
- We follow “No” by a subject pronoun, the auxiliary, then the negative:
“Is Bob English?”
“No, he’s not.”“Are you sad?”
“No, I’m not.”
Asking for things
When we ask about something or someone, we have to use a question word:
“Where are you from?”
“I’m from Manchester.”“What colour is your bus?”
“It’s blue.”“Who is this girl?”
“She’s my cousin, Stephanie.”
Question words
To ask about:
An object or an activity, use: What
The identity of people, use: Who
Age, use: How old
