Question Tags, Indirect Questions, Bullying ...

Thursday 14^th May

Hi guys! So, we are starting a new week. Do you have many exams this week?

What did we do last Thursday?

We started reviewing verb patterns, again! Only David did homework. I would appreciate you to do that photocopy for next Thursday, please!!!

And don’t forget to do this week’s homework: Would prefer and would rather structures.

We role-played a dialogue to practise question tags.

Some of you were tourists in London and the other ones were tourist information staff (personnel). You had different information about two of these places: The Chamber of horrors, the London Dungeon, The Sherlock Holmes Museum, and The Bloody Tower. You wanted to know when those places were opened, how much the tickets cost, what the nearest tube station was etc. It also served us to practise indirect questions.

·         Question tags

A question tag is a short question made up by an auxiliary verb and a pronoun. If the sentence is affirmative, the tag is negative and the other way round; if the sentence is negative, the tag is affirmative.

·         You live near here, don’t you?

·         You weren’t at home yesterday, were you?

·         Indirect questions.

They are used to make questions in a polite way. As it is not the direct question, there’s no inversion in the structure and auxiliary verbs aren’t used.

·         Do you know what time The London Dungeon opens?

·         Do you know what time does The London Dungeon open?

·         Could you tell me what the nearest tube station to the Sherlock Holmes Museum is?

·         Could you tell me what is the nearest tube station to the Sherlock Holmes Museum?

And we finished talking about ‘Bullying’. We read the article entitled ‘Bullied kids at higher risk of mental health problems.’ You can listen and read the article again clicking here http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1505/150501-bullying.mp3

We worked on vocabulary and grammar. After that we started a discussion. We’ll continue discussing this issue next Thursday. It’ll be useful as we are running out of time (time is finishing) and you hadn’t materialized your project on ‘Bullying’ yet.

                                              

           GAME 5

Player 1	6
Player 2	7
Player 3	5
Player 4	10
Player 5	5
Player 6	6
Player 7	6

                      

See you on Thursday.

Cheers!