In Your Words...

Showing posts with label questions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label questions. Show all posts

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Example Interview Questions

http://esl.about.com/od/businessspeakingskills/a/j_interview2.htm

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Classroom Expressions

Here is a list of some of the most common phrases and questions used in the classroom.
 
Learn and use them often!
Asking for something
Asking about words
Asking to repeat
Can I have a pen, please?
Do you have a pen for me?
May I have a pen, please?
What's "(the word)" in English?
What does "(the word)" mean?
How do you say "(the word in your language)" in English?
How do you spell "(the word)"?
How do you pronounce "(the word)"?
Where's the stress in "(the word)"?
Could / Can you repeat that, please?
Could / can you say that again, please?
Pardon me?
Apologizing
Asking for help
Saying Hello and Goodbye
Excuse me, please.
I'm sorry.
Sorry about that.
Sorry I'm late.
I don't understand.
Can you help me, please?
Is this right / wrong?
Good morning / afternoon / evening!
Hello / Hi
How are you?
Goodbye
Have a good weekend / day / evening / time!

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Subject and Object Questions


  • Most questions are object questions. In other words, they ask about an object. Example: Where do you live?. 
  • However, there are also subject questions. Questions we ask to find out about the subject. These questions are asked using 'who', 'what' and 'which'. Example: Who plays football in this class?. take a look at the following chart of question forms:
FormExamples
Object Questions
?word auxiliary subject main Verb
Where do you live?
What will you do?
When is she coming?
Subject Questions
?word subject (auxiliary) main verb
Notice that this structure is like positive sentence structure without the question word.
Who loves you?
Which car will arrive first?
What type of food costs less?


click link for the exercises:
http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/blgrquiz_questionforms_subob.htm