Life

Beginner Unit 11c

Past simple Wh- questions

When did you get Why did you leave

Where did you Who did you your first job? your job?
go to school? work for? What did you like
about the job?

Presentation

Wh- questions

What like about the job?

Where go to school?

When did I/you/he/she/it/we/they get your first job?

Why leave your job?

Who work for?

TIP Use this word order:

Wh- word + did + subject + verb
When did you go?

 Key vocabulary    Jobs: get/like/leave a job, work for (a company/someone), work with (people), customers,
meetings, pay

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 Beginner Unit 11c
Exercises

Exercises
1 Match the past simple questions to the answers.
1 Where did you go to school? e a No, I didn’t. I wanted a job.
2 Did you go to university? b I liked my customers.
3 When did you get your first job? c She didn’t buy it.
4 What did you like about the job? d I worked for Mr Jones.
5 Did you work at weekends? e In North London. It was a big school.
6 Were you happy in your last job? f I didn’t like the meetings and the long days.
7 Why did you leave your job? g No, it wasn’t.
8 Who did you work for? h Yes, I did. On Saturdays and sometimes on
9 Was the pay good? Sundays.
i No, I wasn’t.
j In 2016.
2 Complete the questions with a wh- question word.
1 What did you do in your job?
I talked to people on the phone.
2 did you go to university?
To Harvard in the USA.
3 did you go to that university?
It’s very famous and I wanted to study in another country.
4 did you work for?
My mother and father. They have a business.
5 did you start work in the café?
Last week.
6 did you enjoy about your last job?
I liked the people at work.
7 did you move to Italy?
I wanted to learn Italian.
8 did you live?
In Milan.
3 Find one mistake in each past simple question.
did
1 Where do you work? 5 When did you came to Australia?

2 Why you leave your job? 6 Where you eat dinner last night?

3 What did you saw at the cinema? 7 Why did you drove to work?

4 Who do you go with to the cinema yesterday? 8 Who do you meet last weekend?

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