Negative questions.

The following video is about the way international students who work as Teaching assistants must behave when they face some troubles with negative questions. Answer the questions and complete the sentences according to what you hear and see on the video. 1.According to the professor, why may we use negative questions? 2. Write the examples the students show about negative questions: 3. Asian people often find negative questions tricky, explain: 4. If the person who asks establishes a negative question, how should the asked person respond? 5. What other suggestion does the professor add? 6. In the second example, does the assistant repeat the words of students? Yes, no, why? 7. When are the students having the review? 8. What will their review consist of? 9. Do they have to take the textbooks, yes, no, why? 10. what does the assistant suggest them instead of bringing the textbooks?

Answer key. 1. Information, clarification or further info. 2. double negative sentences, question tags, questions denying a statement. 3. they must respond opposite to the way they are used to. 4. They must also say no, and set a context to explain their statement. 5. The assistant must rephrase the sentences and ask if he/she has clearly spoken. 6. He turns the question into a sentence and changes review date. 7. On Tuesday. 8. Essay questions 9. No, they must write the review without them. 10. They must ask him for info by email.

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