Question bank

Unit 1 It’s nice to meet you.

Hi. How are you today?

Are you [classmate’s name]? What’s your name?
What’s your first name again?
How do you spell your first/last name? Is that [spell name incorrectly]?
What’s your phone number? Is that [say number incorrectly]?
What’s my name? How do you spell it?

Unit 2 What’s this?

(Note: Bring a variety of singular and plural objects from Unit 2 to class.)
(Indicate singular object.) What’s this (called in English)? How do you spell that?
(Indicate plural object.) What are these (called in English)? How do you spell that?
Where is the [singular object in the classroom]? Where are the [plural objects in the classroom]?
(Indicate singular object.) Is this your [singular object]? Where is your [same singular object]?
(Indicate plural object.) Are these your [plural objects]? Where are your [same plural objects]?
Ask me about my things. or Ask [classmate] about his/her things.

Unit 3 Where are you from?

(Note: Bring pictures of famous people to class.)

Are you from [incorrect city/country]? Where are you from?
What’s [country/city] like?
What’s your first language?
How old are you? How old are your brothers/sisters?
Describe your personality. Are you shy/friendly/talkative/quiet/funny/serious?
(Indicate classmate or picture of person.) Who’s that? Is he/she [nationality]? Where is he/she from?
(Indicate picture of person.) How old is he/she? What’s he/she like? Is he/she friendly/funny/quiet/shy/talkative/serious?
Describe his/her appearance. Is he/she pretty/handsome/good-looking/short/tall/heavy/thin?
Ask me about my country/city. or Ask [classmate] about his/her city/country.

Unit 4 Whose jeans are these?

What are your favorite colors?

What color is my [singular clothing item]? or What color is [classmate’s] [singular clothing item]?
What color are my [plural clothing item]? or What color are [classmate’s] [plural clothing item]?
Tell me about your clothes. Are you wearing a [color] [clothing item]?
Tell me about [classmate’s] clothes. Is he/she wearing a [color] [clothing item]?
(Indicate singular object in the classroom.) Is this [object] yours? Whose [object] is this?
(Indicate plural objects in the classroom.) Are these [objects] yours? Whose [objects] are they?
What are the seasons in your/our country? What’s the weather like in each season? What’s your favorite season?
What’s the weather like today?
Ask me about my favorite season. or Ask [classmate] about his/her favorite season.

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 Unit 5 What are you doing?

(Note: Bring pictures of clocks with different times and pictures of people doing different things to class.)
(Indicate a clock.) What time is it?
(Indicate a clock.) Ask me about the time.
(Indicate a person.) Is he/she [-ing form of a verb]?
(Indicate a person.) What’s he/she wearing? What’s he/she doing? Where is he/she [-ing form of a verb]?
(Indicate people.) Are they [-ing form of a verb]?
(Indicate people.) What are they wearing? What are they doing? Where are they [-ing form of a verb]? Why are they [-ing form
of a verb]?
(Indicate a group of several pictures.) Who’s [-ing form of a verb]? Where’s he/she [-ing form of a verb]? or Where are
they [-ing form of a verb]?
(Indicate people.) Ask me about these people. or Ask [classmate] about these people.

Unit 6 My sister works downtown.

Tell me about your family. Do you have brothers or sisters? What are their names?
Do you live with your family? Where do you live?
What time do you get up on weekdays/weekends?
Do you go to school/work by bus? How do you get to school/work?
Do your parents work? Do they walk to work? How do they get to work?
Tell me about your weekly routine. When do you get up/eat breakfast/eat lunch/have dinner/go to bed?
What do you do on [day of the week/weekend]?
When does your [family member] get up/eat breakfast/go to work/have dinner?
Ask me about my family. or Ask [classmate] about his/her family.
Ask me about my weekly routine. or Ask [classmate] about his/her weekly routine.

Unit 7 Does it have a view?

(Note: Bring pictures of rooms with furniture in them to class.)

Do you live in a house/an apartment? What rooms does it have? Does it have a yard/an elevator/a garage/a lobby/a view?
Tell me about your living room/kitchen/bedroom. What furniture do you have? What furniture do you need?
(Indicate picture.) Tell me about this room. Say what furniture there is in the room.
Tell me about your dream home.
Ask me about my house/apartment. or Ask [classmate] about his/her house/apartment.

Unit 8 What do you do?

Do you have a job? Where do you work? What do you do, exactly?
Tell me about your job. Is it interesting/dangerous/stressful?
How do you like your job?
What time do you start/finish work? What do you do after work?
Do your parents work? Where do they work? What do they do? How do they like their jobs?
Where does a/an [name of job] work? What does a/an [name of job] do?
Who works in a hospital/a hotel/an office? Does he/she wear a uniform?
Who has a difficult/an exciting/a stressful job? Why?
Ask me about my job. or Ask [classmate] about his/her job.

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