ENGLISH 1 _UNIT 1

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Question words: Who, What, Where, How, When
■ In this topic you will learn some words useful to ask questions.  You will use vocabulary
related to: numbers, dates, e-mail, nationalities, countries, and words to ask and give
personal information in general. Then you will identify specific information that
question words ask for. Later you will read a bulletin board to identify specific
information on some ads. To practice listening comprehension, you will pay attention to
an interview between two young men in order to identify personal information. In the
writing section you will write questions for answers and answers for questions. Finally,
in the speaking section, you will record questions and answers according to sentences
that will appear on your screen, your goal will be to discover a photo of a famous man.
When you finish the activities you will be able to ask questions easily and collect
specific information
Question words: Who, What, Where, How, When

■ Many times we need to know specific information about people, places, activities or
dates. We have words that help us ask to get that information. They are called
“Question Words”.
■ Question words are helpful to ask for specific information, they are used in
interrogative sentences known as “Open Questions” or “WH-questions”
■ In the next chart we are going to study Question Words. Please click on each circle so
that you can read some examples:
Question words: Who, What, Where,
How, When Tienen
hipervínculo, da
click en las
WHO
Where palabras de
Asks about a Asks for a place pregunta.
person

Question
words WHAT
Asks for an WHEN
activity or Asks for a date,
object day, month, time

HOW
Used to ask: "in
what way"
■ As you can see, in order to ask for or
give information, you do not only need
question words, but also the necessary
vocabulary to be fluent and
comprehensible, for example, we can
combine cardinal numbers (1,2,3,4...)
and question words to ask someone his
or her telephone number or age.
■ Look at this dialogue:
 Numbers:
Ordinal and cardinal

Cardinal Numbers

■ Zero ■ Ten
■ One ■ Eleven
■ Two ■ Twelve
■ Three ■ Thirteen
■ Four ■ Fourteen
■ Five ■ Fifteen
■ Six ■ Sixteen
■ Seven ■ Seventeen
■ Eight ■ Eighteen
■ Nine ■ Nineteen
■ Twenty
 Ordinal numbers
1st  first 13th thirteenth
2nd second                                                  14th fourteenth
3rd third 15th fifteenth
4th fourth 16th sixteenth
5th fifth     17th seventeenth
6th sixth      18th eighteenth
7th seventh         19th  nineteenth
8th eighth               20th twentieth
9th ninth                21st twenty first
10th tenth                22nd twenty second
11th eleventh         23rd twenty third
12th twelfth
Months
To ask questions about countries and nationalities, we use the
name of the country, city or nationality. To ask for someone’s
nationality or country, we can use Where or What, look at the
following example
Nationalities

audio
 HOW
Used to ask: "in what way"
How
We want to know information about a process, age or condition.
Examples:
How do you cook “pozole”?    
First you need corn, pork meat and condiments, you cook the corn and meat together, after that….
How old are you?                       
I am 20 years old
How is your brother?                
He is fine ,but busy trying to find a job

■ WHAT Where
Asks for an activity or object Asks for a place
■ What Where
We want to know about a thing or activity. We want to know information about a place.
Examples:
■ Examples:
Where do you live?                       
What do you do in your spare time?   
I usually surf the internet I live in Iztacalco
Where do you study?                  
■ What does she do for a living?                I study in the UNAM
She teaches English Where were you born?                
■ What do you want to do this weekend? I was born in Mexico City
■ I want to go to the cinema
■ WHO
Asks about a person
■ Who
We want to know about a person
WHEN
■ Examples: Asks for a date, day, month, time
Who is your favorite singer?   When
My favorite singer is Michael Jackson We want to know information about a day, time or
■ Who is your teacher?               date.
Examples:
■ My teacher is Mr. Estrada When is your birthday?                 
It’s in October
When do you have your exam?
Next Saturday!
Listen to the names of symbols when giving an e-mail, web page, or one of your social media pages.
@ at
. dot
_underscore
/ forward slash
\ back slash
* asterisk

■ Audio
 Read this
conversation

■ We can use the alphabet

to spell specific words to
make sure they are
written correctly, for
example when we give or
ask for your last name:
Finally pay attention to the structure of sentences with question words and their
intonation.
The structure is the following:
For questions
Question Word + Auxiliary verb or verb To Be + Subject + Main verb + ?
For answers
Subject + Verb + Complement (place, age, thing, date)
Activity- Reading
Do you know what a bulletin board is? Do you have a place in your school to announce events?
Read carefully the following bulletin board and the advertisements on it. When you finish, answer the questions below. You should identify the answers to
specific question words.
Lee con atención los seis anuncios para que resuelvas las preguntas de la diapositiva 19
De las palabras del
recuadro, elige las
respuestas a las diez
preguntas debajo. Todas son
relacionadas a la lectura de
los anuncios de las tres
diapositivas anteriores.
Questions

■ Crea preguntas a partir de las

respuestas que se te muestran.