Wh- Questions

Wh- questions are questions that use specific words starting with the letters “wh,” such as “who,”
“when,” and “what.” “How” is also often included in this list. These words are often used when we
want to request information from someone.

The most common Wh- question words in English are: “who,” “what,” “where,” “when,” “why,”
“which,” “whose,” and “how.”

Practice:

Example - A: Ask me what my name is. B: What is your name? (– and then Mihai Mocanu should
answer each question: My name is Mihai. I am Romanian. I live in...)

what my name is.

What is your name?

My name is Mocanu Mihai Andrei

2. My nationality.

What it's your nationality

I am Romanian

3 Where I live.

Where do you live

I live in Bucharest

4 . How long I have lived there.

How long did you live there?

From my birth

5. How much a packet of cigarettes costs

How much does a pack of cigarettes cost?

I don’t know I don’t smoke

6. Where to buy sugar.

Where did you buy sugar?

From the supermarket

7. Where to find a cash dispenser.

Where do you find a cash dispenser

At the bank.

8. How big the room is.

How big is your room

It is about twelve square meters

9. How many legs the table has.

How many legs does your table have?

My table have one leg

10. what the time is.

What time is it?

It’s about five pm

11 Where the whiteboard is.

Where is the whiteboard?

The white board it is at school on the wall

12 If I am well.

How well do you feel?

I am very good

13 How I am.

How are you?

I’m good
14. If the post has arrived yet.

when the post arrive

The post has not arrived yet

15. what the film was like.

How was the movie

The film was interesting

16. What a crocodile looks like.

What does a crocodile look like?

The crocodile are green reptiles with big tail and even bigger teeth

17. What my favorite film is.

Which is your favorite movie?

My favorite film it is Hotel Transilvania

18. Who my favorite film star is

Who it's your favorite film star

My favorite movie star it is Jim Carrey

19. How big Paris is.

How big do you think Paris is?

I don't know but wikipedia says that paris has 105.4 km²

20. How many people there are in London?

How many people do you think are in London?

Again wikipedia says that the london has 8.308.369 people.