Wh-Questions
What? - Що?
Asking for a specific thing or object.
# What´s this? It's a book.
# What do you like doing in your free time?
When? - Коли?
Asking about time, occasion, moment.
# When's your birthday? It's in March.
# When did you arrive? Yesterday.
Where? - Де?
Asking at what place or position.
# Where is your sister?
# Where do you come from?
Who? - Хто?
Asking about a person.
# Who is this boy?
# Who works in this office?
Whose? - Чий?
Asking about belonging.
# Whose laptop is this?
# Whose sister is sitting next to you?
Why? - Чому?
Asking for a reason, explanation.
# Why were you late?
# Why do you need more money?
Which? - Який?
Asking about choice.
# Which country would you prefer to
live in - the UK or Australia?
How? - Як?
Asking for a way, manner, form.
# How do you get to work?
# How are you today?
How many? - Скільки?
Asking about quantity.
Used with countable nouns.
# How many books have you got?
# How many sweets have you eaten today?
How much? - Скільки?
Asking about quantity.
Used with uncountable nouns.
# How much homework have we got?
# How much milk do we need?
The structure of wh-questions
1. the verb "to be"
1 - a question word
1 2 3 4 2 - the form of the verb "to be"
# Why are you late?
3 - the subject of the sentence
4 - the rest of the sentence
2. action verbs
1 - a question word
1 2 3 4 2 - an auxiliary verb
# Where do you live?
3 - the subject of the sentence
4 - the infinitive of the verb denoting the action
Practice
Task 1. Choose the right question word
1. (What / When) do you wake up? 9. (What / When) do you do on weekends?
2. (Why / What) does she do after school? 10. (How / Where) do you get home from school?
3. (How many/ much) apples have you eaten today? 11. (What / Who) is sitting next to you?
4. (What / When) time do you have lunch? 12. (When / What) does your sister go shopping?
5. (Where / What) are they going? 13. (How much / many) money do you need?
6. (When / What) do you do your homework? 14. (What / Why) was she late for the lesson?
7. (What / Whose) bag is this? 15. (Which / When) do you prefer - tea or coffee?
8. (What / When) time do you go to bed? 16. (Where / What) will you go for the holidays?
Practice
Task 2. Use the right question word according to the answer
1. _____is your name? - Ron.
2. _____are you going? - To my friend's house.
3. _____sits next to you in class? - Ben.
4. _____does she come from? - She's from London.
5. _____is your father's birthday? - In December.
6. _____season is your favourite? - Summer.
7. _____do you like cats? - Because they are cute.
8. _____is this T-shirt? - It's 10 pounds.
9. _____car is this? - It's my father's.
10. _____colour is your favourite - blue or yellow?
11. _____often do you play basketball? - Twice a week.
12. _____is your party? - On Saturday evening.
13. _____do your grandparents live? - In Ukraine.
14. _____did you go last month? - We went to Paris.
Practice
Task 3. Put the words in the correct order to make questions and
match them to the answers.
1. do / live / where / you? a. In January.
2. is/ your / brother / what / like? b. By a school bus.
3. are / smiling / why / you? c. 10.
4. your / is / English / teacher / who? d. My dad's.
5. you / to / get / how / school / do? e. I am glad to see you.
6. your / is / when / birthday / grandmother's? f. In Ukraine.
7. many / have / how / got / books / you? g. Ms. Smith.
8. laptop / is / whose / this? h. Yellow.
9. colour / which / blue / your / yellow / or / is / favourite? i. 2 bottles.
10. much / need / we / milk / how / do? j. He is kind.
Practice
Task 4. Make questions to the following sentences using the
question word in brackets.
1. Jack is fond of riding a bicycle. (what)
2. He visited his friends in Greece last summer. (when)
3. This is my parents' car. (whose)
4. We will spend our next holiday in Italy. (where)
5. She has got two younger brothers. (how many)
6. It takes me half an hour to get to school. (how much)
7. My mother likes cooking very much. (who)
8. They took a taxi to get to the aiport. (how)
9. His brother is very tired, so he doesn't want to go to the party. (why)
10. We visited a historical and a science museum, but we liked the last more (which)
