2 Wh- Questions

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.

Where are you We are from

from? Yes.
Earth.
 Singular and Plural
Use is for singular subjects and are for
plural subjects.

singular

Where is your spaceship?

plural

What are your plans?

 Who

Who asks about people.

person

Who are you?

person

Who is your leader?

 What

What asks about things.

thing Ez5ik

What is your language?

things

What are your names?

 Where

Where asks about places.

Where is your spaceship?

Where are we?

 Why

Why asks for a reason.

Why are you here?

Why are their heads so small?

 With a partner, read the
Practice 1 answers and ask
wh-questions.

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.

Where is the mustard?

Where’s

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.

Example: Who is he? He is a doctor.

1. spaceship 2. firefighter

Where is she?
She is in a spaceship. Who is he?
He is a fire fighter.

3. alien 4. he sees a spaceship

What is he? Why is he scared?
He is an alien. doctor He sees a spaceship.
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