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DURACIÓN
ÁREA: Inglés TEMA: Wh questions 30
EN DÍAS:

GRADO: Séptimo

Primera etapa: PUNTO DE PARTIDA Y DE LLEGADA

Actividades 1. Have you ever heard about ‘wh questions’? What do you know about them?

2. Answer the following questions. Try to use sentences when you answer them and not just one
word:
a. Where is your house located?
b. When is your birthday?
c. Who is your best friend?
d. What is your favorite food?
e. Which is your favorite sports team?
f. Why do you study at Isolda Echavarría?
g. How do you feel studying at this school?

Competencia 1. Recognize the grammar structure of wh questions.

a Desarrollar
2. Produce sentences using wh questions.
3. Understand concepts related to wh questions.

Derechos 1. Participa en conversaciones cortas en las que brinda información sobre sí mismo, sobre personas,
Básicos de lugares y eventos que le son familiares.
aprendizaje
2. Describe, de manera oral, personas, actividades, eventos y experiencias personales.
4. Entiende la idea principal y algunos detalles relacionados con actividades, lugares y personas en
un texto descriptivo corto.
5. Reconoce información específica relacionada con objetos, personas y acciones.

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. Segunda etapa: INVESTIGACIÓN

Research
Actividades 1. Read the following information about wh questions
We use question words to ask certain types of questions (question word questions). We often refer
to them as WH words because they include the letters WH (for example WHy, HoW).
WH QUESTION USE EXAMPLE
what asking for information about What is your name?
something
asking for repetition or What? I can't hear you.
confirmation
when asking about time When did he leave?
where asking in or at what place or Where do they live?
position
which asking about choice Which color do you want?
who asking what or which person Who opened the door?
or people (subject)
whose asking about ownership Whose are these keys?
Whose turn is it?
why asking for reason, asking Why do you say that?
what...for
how asking about manner How does this work?
asking about condition or How was your exam?
quality
Adapted from: https://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/wh-question-words.htm

Asking questions
1. If you ask about the subject of the sentence, simply add the question word at the beginning:
Example:
James writes good poems. — Who writes good poems?

2. If you ask about the predicate of the sentence (the part of a sentence which contains the verb and
gives information about the subject), there are three options:

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a. If there is a helping (auxiliary) verb that precedes the main verb (for example: can, is, are,
was, were, will, would...), add the question word and invert the subject and the helping
(auxiliary) verb.

Examples:
He can speak Chinese. — What can he speak?
They are leaving tonight. — When are they leaving?

b. If you ask about the predicate and there is no helping (auxiliary) verb and the verb is "to
be", simply add the question verb and invert the subject and the verb.

Example:
The play was interesting. — How was the play?
c. If there is no helping (auxiliary) verb in the predicate and the main verb is not "to be", add
the auxiliary "do" in the appropriate form.

Examples:
They go to the movies every Saturday. — Where do they go every Saturday?
He wakes up early. — When does he wake up?
They sent a letter. — What did they send?

Taken from: http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-lesson-wh-questions.php

2. Write question about the words in bold.

Example:
He drank juice. - What did he drink?

a. They went to Argentina. - __________________________

b. He makes movies. - _______________________________
c. Luisa likes basketball. - ____________________________
d. The girls watched a TV show - _______________________

Recursos
Student’s book: Viewpoints 2
adicionales Dictionary

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Tercera Etapa: DESARROLLO DE LA HABILIDAD

Actividades 1. Read the following story and then answer the questions
Sofia’s animals
Sofia lives in a house in Barbosa. It is big and old. She has many animals. She has chickens and
ducks. She has baby rabbits. They are young and small. Sofia likes listening to the animals.
The ducks swim in a pool. Sofia has bread for them. The ducks eat her bread. There are fish in the
pool too. Sofia likes watching the fish. They are swimming in circles.
Sofia likes working in her garden. There are many flowers in her garden. Sofia is happy.
a. Where does Sofia live? ________________________________
b. How is the house? ____________________________________
c. Where are the fish? ___________________________________
d. How are the fish swimming? ____________________________
e. What does Sofia like listening to? ________________________
f. Where does Sofia like to work? __________________________

2. Complete the following sentences using wh questions:

a. Why are you happy? - Because I have a birthday today.
b. _____are you today? - I’m fine, thank you.
c. ________is your phone? - In the bedroom.
d. _______is she at the moment? – She is at school.
e. __________is your birthday? – It is in September
f.________ is that woman? - She is our math teacher.
g. _______are they working? - In the book shop.
h.________ is Paula doing? - She is watching TV now.
i._________ time is it? - It’s nine o’clock.
j.________ are the kids sad? - Because they don’t go to the cinema.

Duolingo Work on the following Duolingo units during the development of this guide. Try to advance
as much as you can in the classroom and remember to report your progress to your teacher.

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Cuarta etapa: RELACION

Actividades
Play this board game with your teacher and other classmates. You have to play it in the classroom.
Read the rules and the questions beforehand and search the vocabulary you don’t understand. Have
fun!

2. Wh- Dice Rolling.

Now you have to throw the dice. Every number on the dice corresponds to a wh question. Every
time you get a number you must use that word in a question to another student or your teacher.
1-what 4-where
2-when 5-who
3-why 6-which

E.g. If you roll 3, you have to make a question using ‘why’.

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