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Wh-Questions: A Friendly Visit
Wh-Questions: A Friendly Visit
A Friendly Visit
Focus on Grammar 2
Part II, Unit 7
By Ruth Luman, Gabriele Steiner, and BJ Wells
Copyright © 2006. Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
A Friendly Visit 1
Dad, I think Oh, they’re
Who are son.
Be kind,
I don’t know.
we have Why are human
their Their
heads so small? brains
they? aren’t
visitors. verybeings.
big.
A Friendly Visit 2
Greetings from
Our spaceship broke
Welcome to What
Earth. our
down. isWhere are Whylanguage
Our arevery
you far
is
planet.
your language? You are
we? here?
₪.
Would you like from home.But
some iced tea? I want to practice
my English.
Function
Wh- questions ask for information. They cannot be
answered with a yes or no.
singular
plural
person
person
thing Ez5ik
things
Example: Why
What
Where
Who
are
isare
isthey
his
hethey?
hobby?
from?
happy?
The
Because United
They’re
they States.
aliens.
Hislanded
hobby is the
on soccer.
moon.
Contractions
We often use contractions for wh- questions with is
in speaking and informal writing.
What’s
What is on TV?
Answers
We usually give short answers to wh-
questions. We can give long answers too.
short
long My skin isI eat
Because green
a lot
Why is your
answer
answer because I eat a
of broccoli.
skin green?
lot of broccoli.
Use the clues to ask and
Practice 2 answer wh- questions with a
partner.
Where is she?
She is in a spaceship. Who is he?
He is a fire fighter.