2. In terms of grammar, the teacher should make the students understand
that "Wh-question" is used depending on the asked information is "subject" or
"predicate" of a question.
- Type of information needed is the information about the subject of the
question, students need to simply replace the person or object into the position
of word to ask -Wh-question:
Lan has a nice house Who has a nice house?
A tall tree is behind Lan’s house What is behind Lan’s house ?
- Type of information needed locates in the predicate of the sentence,
forming question with words to ask depending on whether “auxiliary verb”
exists in the original sentence or not. An auxiliary verb is the verbs standing
before the main verb. The auxiliary verbs are italicized and bolded below:
I can do it
They are leaving
She should brush teeth after meal
+To create questions using the form that information needed locates at the position of
predicate of the sentence, First of all, teachers instruct their students to create a question with
the form of Yes / No by shifting the subject and the auxiliary verb in a sentence. Then add the
Wh-question to ask at the beginning of the sentence:
Affirmations
Wh-question
Shifting into the form of Yes / No
( You will leave
question
When will you
leave?
sometime )
Will you leave?
In this sentence, Will is auxiliary verb is shifted to place prior to the
subject then add when to form question, similarly we have two following
questions
( He is doing something) à Is he doing à what is he doing?
(They have been somewhere) à Have they been à where have they been?
If the sentence has no auxiliary verb and the main verb is the verb "to be", in order to
make a question, we just swap location between the subject of the sentence and the verb “to
be”, then add words to match in question
Shifting into the form
of Yes / No question
Is he
( He is someone )
Who is he ?
In this sentence, "He" is the subject and the main verb of the sentence is
verb “to be” that is divided with the third singular person "is". To create a
question in this case, the positions of the subject "He" and the verb "is" is
shifted, then add words to ask (in this case, we add Who at the beginning of the
sentence). Similar to the following question:
(The meeting is sometime) à Is the meeting à When is the meeting?
If in the narrative sentences (affirmations), the main verb of the sentence
is ordinary verb, we add auxiliary verb before the subject of the sentence. Then
we add suitable Wh-question at the beginning of the sentence to form a question.
Remember that adding auxiliary verb must match with its subject. For example,
in the present tense, the subject is I /We/You/They, plural nouns, we use
auxiliary verb "do", the third singular person is He / She / It, or singular nouns,
we have to use auxiliary verb"does".
Shifting into the form of
(You want something
Yes / No question
What do you want?
Do you want
In the above sentence, we do not see auxiliary verb in affirmations "you want
something" so when switching to the question, we need to add auxiliary verb
“do” before the subject "you" of the sentence. Then we ask for information
about the object "Something" by adding words to ask "What" at the beginning
of the sentence. As a result, we have a question "What do you want?”
Similarly, we have:
Affirmations- Shifting into the form of Yes / No question - Wh-question
(She likes something) à Does she like (third person-s) à what does she like?
- Teachers need provide instructions to students on how to shift nouns
into pronouns to avoid repetition or a pronoun in question to a pronoun in that
answer with suitable context (when turning into pronouns, singular nouns for
animals/plans/things are converted into “it", the plural nouns are transformed
into "they"; the singular noun indicated for person is changed to "he, she"
(depending on the noun), plural nouns is changed to "they".
For example: Nam ® He I and my sister ® They
Your school ® It Her books ® They
S1: Where is your father ?
S2 : He is in the garden
S1 : Whose books are these ?
S2 : They are mine
Particular case:
You ® I ; You ® We
For example: S1: Where do you live ?
S2 :- I live in Thanh hoa ( a person )
-We live in Hanoi ( 2 people or more )
Or the case do not have to convert but remain subject to answer:
It ® It He ® He
She ® She They ® They
S1: What subject does he like ?
S2 : He likes Math
And idioms: Is there ® There is/There isn’t
Are there ® There are/There aren’t
S1: How many people are there in your family ?
S2 : There are three
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