1. En classele 21 mars La question Les objectifs: Understand question words / phrases Form accurate questions Take a risk!

2. Travaillez tout seul: Without your book / vocab list, try to write down as many question words as you can in 1 min. Travaillez à deux: Without your book / vocab list, try to combine and extend your list in 2 mins. Travaillez à quatre: Without your book / vocab list, try to combine and extend your list in 4 mins.

3. Using your language detective skills, work out the meaning of these question words given in context. Quand est-ce tu rentres? Qui a cassé la fenêtre? Quelle est la date? Quels sports aimes-tu? Où est la salle de bains? Comment ça sécrit? Pourquoi pleures-tu?

4. Reliez les questions françaises avec leurs traductions anglaises: Quand? Qui? Quelle? Quels? Où? Comment? Pourquoi? Which? How? When? What? Why? Where? Who? These words are known as interrogative adverbs! Quel has 4 forms as it must agree in gender and number with the object its talking about which is which? quel quelle quels quelles

5. Just like in English there are different ways to ask questions! To turn a statement into a yes / no response question put > into the beginning of the sentence: Est-ce que tes bananes sont jaunes? Are your bananas yellow? To answer yes to a question containing a negative use > > >

6. If your question begins with what… use > > What do you eat in the evening ? OR > You can start the question with > but you must invert the subject and the verb ie swap the order of tu and manges and add a hypen -

7. In English you swap the subject and the verb to form a question… statement Icango. subjectverb question CanIgo ? verbsubject

8. In French its the same! All you need to do is add a hyphen Est – elle partie?Has she gone? Peux - tu maider?Can you help me?

9. You can also create a question by raising your voice at the end of a normal sentence to show its a question… Tu as des frères ou… …des soeurs?