1. Let’s ask questions!

2. Question words What Who Where How When Why
Do you remember these question words?
What
Who
Where
How
When
Why

3. Let’s remember! Who person Who's that? That's Andrea. Where place
Question words
Meaning
Examples
Who
person
Who's that? That's Andrea.
Where
place
Where do you live? In Boston.
Why
reason
Why do you sleep early? Because I have to get up early.
When
time
When do you go to work? At 7:00.
How
manner
How do you go to work? By car
What
object, idea or action
What do you do? I am an engineer.

4. Sometimes forming questions in English can be confusing.
Don’t worry –you will learn a simple formula that works for asking questions in almost ALL the verb tenses!
This formula is called QUASM:

5. QUASM

6. QUASM FORMULA: QU estion word A uxiliary verb S ubject M ain verb
Look how QUASM works for forming questions in the following verb tenses:

7. Simple Present Questions
QU A S M
QUESTION WORD
AUXILIARY VERB
SUBJECT
MAIN VERB
Where do
you
work?
What
does
Martha
think
about the project?
How
make
brownies?
How many kids
Bob
have?

8. Simple Past Questions QU A S M
QUESTION WORD
AUXILIARY VERB
SUBJECT
MAIN VERB
How
did
they
learn
English so fast?
When
you
get home
from work yesterday?

9. Now it’s your turn!

10. Follow the formula and order the questions. QU A S M
/weekends/do/what/on/you/do/?
/ the/ does/ start/ when/ show/?
/where/ vacation /on/ you/ did/ go/?

11. QU A S M What do you do on weekends? When does the show start?
Where did you go on vacation?

12. Follow the formula and write a question!
Write a question for the underlined answer:
Example: Alvaro lives in Vitacura.
Where does Alvaro live?
My father plays tennis every day.
Pedro studied Math yesterday.

13. Q U A S M Was it easy or difficult for you?
Were all your answers right?
What can you do to get more right answers?
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