IN TERMS OF GRAMMAR, THE TEACHER SHOULD MAKE THE STUDENTS UNDERSTAN...

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