Answer — Exercise 10
7.1 - Food for thought·New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book
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.