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3B Can I ask you ...?

A Correct the mistakes in the indirect questions. Then ask and answer the questions in pairs.1 Can I ask you who do you look up to

most in your family?2 I’d like know whether you ever envy

your siblings.3 Could you tell me everyone in your family is

on the same wavelength?4 I’d like to know what people in your family

boast about?5 Can you tell whether everyone in your house

respects your privacy?6 Would you mind tell me how often your parents

praise you for doing something?7 I wonder if you could tell me who in your family

you have the most in common with?8 Could I ask you what if your parents often nag

you about the clothes you wear?

B Write eight indirect questions of your own to ask your classmates about their relationships with family/friends. Use the expressions in the box and your own ideas. Make sure you start your questions in different ways!

admire adore be close to be wary of confide in despise feel sorry for flatter insult see eye to eye with tease trust

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Solutions 2nd edition Upper-Intermediate © OxfOrd University Press

Aims To review and practise indirect question forms. To engage students in a group project to produce a questionnaire and survey classmates.Time 15 minutesMaterials 1 handout for each student• Give each student a handout and tell them to complete task

A. Check answers as a class, taking the opportunity to review the reasons and rules for using indirect questions.

Answer Key1 who do you 5 tell me whether 2 like to know 6 telling me 3 me if everyone 7 ? 4 ? 8 you what if• Divide the class into groups of four and tell them to complete

task B. Make it clear that each student needs to make a note of the questions they decide on.

• When students have completed their questionnaires, divide the class into four groups, so that each one has a member from each of the original groups. Students then ask the people in their group the questions from their questionnaire and note their answers. When everyone has finished, students return to their original group to collate data.

• Get each group to give the class some feedback on their most interesting/surprising findings. You may like to write some sentence starters on the board for students to make use of, e.g. To our surprise, most students told us ... / Interestingly, hardly anybody said ... / Apparently, nobody thinks ...

3B Can I ask you ...?