Questions are never

answers indiscreet
metimes are
Oscar Wilde, Irish author
Questions and answers
G question formation V working out meaning from context P intonation:showing interest

1 READING & SPEAKING

a Look at the photos of Florence
Welch and Dan Stevens and read Every week the British newspaper
their biographical info. Have you The Guardian chooses people who have been
heard any of her music, or seen any in the news recently, and publishes a short
of his TV series or films? What did
you think of them?
Q&A interview with them called Q&A

b Now read the interviews and

complete the questions.

cRead the interviews again and focus

on their answers. Write F (Florence)
or D (Dan). Which question(s) helped
you answer F or D?
Who do you think...?
1 doesn't eat any animal products
2 doesn't have a partner at the
moment
S Currently living in the USA
prefers to keep some things
private
S quite romantic F lorence Welch is the lead singer of
s very family-oriented the band Florence and the Machine.
spends a lot of time online She was born in London in 1986, and in
thinks more about themselves than 2010, her first album, Lungs, won best album
other people award at the BRITs. She has headlined at the
Glastonbury Festival, and the band's fourth
d Which of the questions in the album, High as Hope, reached number two in
interviews do you think are...? the US and UK charts.
t h e most interesting 's your most treasured possession?
the least interesting My notebooks with all my lyrics.
to0 personal to ask a person if 2 What you want to be when you were growing up?
don't know them well
yobu
A zoologist or a
secretary.
e Choose six questions from What you like about
Q&A to I can be very self-centred. yourself?
ask your partner.
What your most embarrassing moment?
Politely refusing It was about five years
to answer a
question ago, and I'm still not ready to talk about it.
It was something
iyou are asked a question you think involving dating.
sinappropriate, or simply don't want What or is the greatest love of your life?
to answer, I think that hasn't
you can say, I'd prefer not happened yet.
to answer that or I'd rather not 6 What
answer your superpower be?
that if you don't mind To be able to fall asleep exactly when
I need to, for
exactly the right
amount of time.

would you most like to be

I am right now?
always away, so it would be quite nice to be at
Glossary home in London.
headline (verb) to be tho main you ever said "I love you' and not meant it?
Aerrmer ot a toncert No. I always felt it at that
moment
BRITs the Britsh anual
pop word or phrase do you most
asit auars overuse?
What's the wi-fi password?
 an Stevens, the actor,
was born in Surrey in
1982. He played Matthew
Crawley in the TV series
Downton Abbey, until his
character died suddenly in a
special Christmas episode.
He has since starred in many
successful TV series and films,
including Beauty and the Beast, The Man Who Invented
Christmas, and Legion.
were you happiest?
My wedding day, eight years ago.
2 What you owe your parents?
A lot and probably quite a lot of money.
's your wallpaper?
A photo of my kids, Willow, Aubrey, and Eden, who
are eight, five, and one.
keeps you awake at night?
My three kids.
5 would you most like to say sorry to??
To Downton Abbey fans, for ruining their Christmas
one year.

What single thing. improve the

quality of your life?
One of those robot vacuum cleaners.
do you relax?
Igo for walks in Griffith Park, in LA.
8 What love feel like?
As if somebody's painted the world a different colour.
you have a 'guilty pleasure'?
Yes, vegan cheesecake.

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1A SPEAKERS OFSPANISH
Pocket Book p.2-3

question formation
1 How long have you been waiting? How many children 1 . 3
indirect questions
does your sister have? Should we buy her a present? Could you tell me what time the shop next door opens? 1 . 4
2 Why didn't you like the film? Isn't this a beautiful place? Do you know if (whether) Mark's coming to the meeting?
Don't you have to be at school today?
3 What are they talking about? Who does this bag belong to? We use indirect questions when we want to ask a question
4 Who lives in that house? in a more polite way. We begin with a phrase such as Can/
? Do Do think..?
How many people follow you on Twitter?
Could you tell me...? Do you know. you
Would you mind telling me...? Do you
you remember..?
1 We make questions with tenses where there is an auxiliary have any idea..?
verb (be, have, etc.) and with modal verbs (should, must,
etc.) by inverting the subject and the auxiliary / modal verb.
Compare:
What time does the post office open? (direct question) and
With the present and past simple, we add the auxiliary verb Could you tell me what time the post office opens? (indirect
do/ does or did before the subject.
question)
2 We often use negative questions to show surprise when we I n indirect questions, the order is subject + verb. Can you
expect somebody to agree with us, or to check whether tell me where it is? NOT Eanyettel-me-where is-i#?
something is true. We don't use do/ did in the second part ofthe question.
3 If a verb is normally followed by a preposition, e.g. talk Do you know where he lives? NOT where dees-helive?
about sth, the preposition comes at the end of the question, You can use ifor whether in questions without a question
not at the beginning.. NOT Abetwhatare-yeu-taking? word and after: Can you tell me, Do you know, etc.
.We often just use the question word and the preposition,
e.g. A Im thinking. B What about? Other expressions followed by the word order of
4 When who/ what/ which, etc., is the subject of questions in indirect questions
the present or past simple, we don't use do / did, e.g. Who The word order of indirect questions is used after:
wrote this? NOT 4he did-write this? wonder., e.g. I wonder why they didn't come.
I'm not sure.., e.g. I'm not sure what time it starts.
Ican't remember., e.g. I can't remember where Ileft my
Who wrote
phone.
this? 'd like to know..., e.g. l'd like to know what time you're
coming home.

a Order the words to make questions. b Complete the questions with the words in
tomorrow can't Why come you ? brackets.
Why can't you come tomorrow? Where did you go on holiday last year? (you/ 90)
feel how ? 1 How often
1 Should her tell exercise? (you/usually
2 friend known long best have How you your ? do)
train next leaves the Could 2 Who Oliver Twist? (write)
3 tell when you
? 3 Could you tell me how ? (this
me much
4 are What about you thinking ? book/ cost)
weekend What doing the like ? 4 I can't remember where my car this
Sat do you
6 music to does What Jane kind like listening morning. (1/ park)
5
of ? your trip to Paris last weekend
you time tilm know finishes Do what the ? you enjoy)
class students yesterday to many came How ? 6 What kind of work ? (your s i s t e r / d o
8 7 Who
you remenber is where Do the restaurant ? the last biscuit? (eat)
10 housework family in Who your the does ? 8 Do you know what time On
Saturdays? (the swimming pool/ open
9 Why the present you gave herf
(your sister/ not like)
10
play your music so loud?
can't concentrate. (you /
have to)
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