En classe le 21 marsLa question

Les objectifs:

• Understand question words / phrases• Form accurate questions• Take a risk!

Travaillez tout seul:

Without your book / vocab list, try to write down as many question words as you can in 1 min.

Travaillez à deux:

Without your book / vocab list, try to combine and extend your list in 2 mins.

Travaillez à quatre:

Without your book / vocab list, try to combine and extend your list in 4 mins.

Using your language detective skills, work out the

meaning of these question words given in context.

Quand est-ce tu rentres?

Qui a cassé la fenêtre?

Quelle est la date?

Quels sports aimes-tu?

Où est la salle de bains?

Comment ça s’écrit?

Pourquoi pleures-tu?

Reliez les questions françaises avec leurs traductions

anglaises:

Quand?

Qui?

Quelle?

Quels?

Où?

Comment?

Pourquoi?

Which?

How?

When?

What?

Why?

Where?

Who?

These words are known as interrogative adverbs!

Quel has 4 forms as it must agree in gender and number with the object it’s talking about

which is which?

quelquellequels

quelles

Just like in English there are different ways to ask questions!

To turn a statement into a yes / no response question put << Est-ce que >> into the beginning of the sentence:

Est-ce que tes bananes sont jaunes?

Are your bananas yellow?

To answer yes to a question containing a negative use <<Si>>

<< Est-ce que tu n’as pas soif ? >> << Si. >>

If your question begins with “what…” use << Qu’est-ce que... >>

<< Qu’est-ce que tu manges le soir ? >>

What do you eat in the evening ?

OR

<< Que manges-tu le soir ? >>

You can start the question with << Que >>

but you must “invert the subject and the verb”

ie swap the order of tu and manges and add a hypen -

In English you swap the subject and the verb to form a question…

statement

I can go .

subject verb

question

Can I go ?

verb subject

In French it’s the same!

All you need to do is add a hyphen

Est – elle partie? Has she gone?

Peux - tu m’aider? Can you help me?

You can also create a question by raising your

voice at the end of a normal sentence to show it’s

a question…

Tu as des frères ou……des soeurs?