2. Presented by:
Khadija GOUALI
Naima SELLAM
Supervised by:
Jennifer JUNE EVANS
Youssef TAMER

3.  YES/NO Questions
 Tag Questions
 Wh-Questions
 Other types of YES/NO and Wh- Questions
 Problems that ESL/EFL students have with
Questions
 Suggested activity for teaching Questions

4.  1) Subject-auxiliary (or subject-aux) inversion:
Ex: -Has he read the letter?
-Is he a teacher?
-Could you pass the salt?
 2) Do insertion or do support:.
Ex: Does she go to school everyday?

5.  Do not imply any expectation regarding
whether the answer will be yes or no.
Ex: do you like dancing?

6.  To form a negative Yes/No question, the verbal element
is contracted with not at the beginning of the question.
 Generally asked to confirm a specific expectation or
assumption.
Ex: Didn’t you bring the book?
 Can often express annoyance or disappointment
because of a previous expectation that has not been
met.
Ex: Haven’t you talked to him yet?

7.  1) Elliptical Yes/No Questions:
Ex: You want to talk to her?
Ex: You hungry?

8.  2) Declarative Yes/No Questions: They are used to:
a- Check information:
Ex: a- This my younger brother.
b- He is your brother?
b- Repeat to question or confirm what has already been said.
Ex: a- I lost my job yesterday.
b- You lost your job?
c- Express surprise, amazement, or annoyance.
Ex: You bought a car ?!

10.  Tag question is a special constraction in
English. It is a statement followed by a mini-
question and the mini-question at the end is
called a question tag.
 Ex:- He does, doesn’t he?
- He will play basketball, won’t he?

11. Statement Question Tag
-Positive statement -Nagative tag
Snow is white Isn’t it?
-Negative statement -Positive tag
You don’t like me Do you?

12.  The statement and the tag are always
separated by a comma.
 The verb in the statement should be the same
tense as the verb in the tag.
Ex: -His parents are very old, aren't they?
-You won't tell him my secret, will
you?

13.  If the statement does not use an
auxiliary/modal (i.e. it is in the present or
past simple tense), then the auxiliary to
do must be used.
Ex: She comes from Korea, doesn't she?

15. It is possible for a positive statement to
be followed by a positive tag for even more
effect
(sarcasm, anger, disbelief, shock, concern
etc).
Ex: Oh you will, will you?
You think you're funny, do you?

16.  Real question  rising intonation
Ex: The chairman is coming at 3.00,
isn't he?
 Not a real question  flat or falling intonation
Ex: It's a nice day today, isn't it?

17.  WH- Questions about an object:
a-wh-movement and subject-aux inversion
Ex: What are you carrying?
b- wh-movement and do insertion
Ex: Who did you see?

18.  WH- Questions about a subject: The subject is converted
to the appropriate wh-word
Ex: Who kicked the ball?
 WH- Questions with How + Adjective/Adverb: How is
combined with adj and adv to form questions: how
many, how long…
Ex: How many children do you have?
 Embedded WH- Questions: inserted questions inside a
large sentence
Ex: I don’ t know what she is doing?

19. 1-WH- Information Questions:
Ex: Where did she go?
2-Repeat Please Questions:
Ex: When did she get in?
3-Two different word order:
Ex: When did she go ?
She went when?
4-Elaborate Please Questions:
Ex: When?

20. 1- Alternative Questions:
*Offer at least two alternative answers.
Ex: Is she from Korea or Japnease?
2- Echo Questions:
*Repeat all or part of what has been said.
Ex: Did you borrow my car keys?
Did I borrow your car keys?

21. 3- Exclamatory Questions:
*Exclamations asserting the belief of the
speaker.
Ex: Isn’t he smart?
4-Rhetorical Questions:
*Are not intended to be answered, but
instead, serve to state the opinion of the
speaker.
Ex: -Have you heard the news about Alan?
-Who hasn’t?

22. 5- Display Questions:
*Do not begin with Wh-word and are often
used by teachers to request that students
display their knowledge about sth.
Ex: So this play is about what?

24. The influence of the Native Language
1- Intonation (Portugues lng)
Ex: - Você mora perto daqui?
- you live near here?
- “Do you live near here?”
2- A question marker + intonation (Arabic lng)
Ex: - Ji:ridu an jal3aba.
- He wants to play.
- Hal Ji:ridu an jal3aba?
- Does he want to play?

25. 1- Negative Yes/No questios (Korean lng)
Ex: a: Ne ol swu-eps ni?
= Can’t you come?
b: A-ni,na ka-l-swu iss-e?
= No, I can come.
No -> to a negative question = Yes
Yes -> to a positive question = No

26. 2- Wh- information questions (Portugues lng)
Ex: - O que falou a Nicole Kidman?
-What said Nicole Kidman?
( what did Nikole Kidman say?)

27.  This activity is going to be like a quiz show.
 A selected student will give an answer to a
question chosen by him/her, then ask the
students to figure out what the appropriate
wh- question for that answer is.
 The time given to figure out the question is
limited ( 10 seconds)

29.  The Teacher’s Grammar of English by Ron
Cowan.
 http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/rules/questions.h
tm
 http://www.english-
zone.com/grammar/tags01.html
 http://www.perfect-english-
grammar.com/questions.html
 http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/questi
ontext.htm