Cover of the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 10

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7.1 - Food for thought for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

When we ask a question, we could be asking for information we don’t know or checking information we don’t know or checking information we think we already know. Listen to the questions (1-4) and decide which type they are. How can you tell?

Answer

  • Questions 1 and 2 use question words (What / How) and are asking for specific information.
  • (Other question words are Who, where, when, why, which, whose).
  • Questions 3 and 4 use Yes / No questions and are just checking information. Question words are not used in these types of questions.