Agreeing, Disagreeing, Echo Questions and Changing your Life!

Week 24^th- 26^th March

Hello everybody! I’d like to welcome Gema, our new classmate.

This week we continued agreeing and disagreeing. And we also learnt to make “echo questions”, so as to show our interest in the conversation.

·         I was so tired yesterday that I went to bed at 10.00!

·         Did you? (Echo question)

·         I didn’t go to bed at 10.00. (disagreeing)

·         Neither did I. (Agreeing in the negative)

·         I did.(disagreeing)

·         Really, did you? Why?(Echo question)

·         I’d like to travel to Japan.

·         I wouldn’t. (disagreeing)

·         I would. I’ve always felt attracted by their culture. (disagreeing)

·         So would I. (Agreeing in affirmative)

·         Would you? (Echo question)

They met at a party.

·         I’m from Australia.

·         Are you? (echo question) So am I! (agreeing)

·         My parents came here when I was two.

·         Did they? (echo question)  So did mine. (agreeing)

·         I’ve got a twin brother.

·         Have you? (echo question)  So have I. (agreeing)

·         I don’t remember much about him now.

·         Don’t you? (echo question)  Neither do I. (agreeing)

·         I haven’t seen him since the war.

·         Haven’t you? (echo question) Neither have I. (agreeing)

·         I can’t find him anywhere now.

·         Can’t you? (echo question) Neither can I. (agreeing)

·         I’d love to see him again.

·         Would you? (echo question) So would I. (agreeing)

We did a quiz “Fifty years of pop” and learnt about questions with and without auxiliaries.

·      When did Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of Queen, die?

·      Whose husband was the film director Guy Ritchie?

·      What happened to Mick Jagger in 2004?

·      Which band included Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel?

When the subject is the question word, we don’t use the auxiliary verb.

Who wrote ‘Hamlet’? Shakespeare wrote ‘Hamlet’

Which famous play did Shakespeare write? Shakespeare wrote ‘Hamlet’

We found out (discovered) who wrote ‘Imagine’. It wasn’t only John Lennon; Yoko Ono, helped him.

And to finish with, we started talking about the topic “Changing your life”

If you could spend a year working in another country, which country would you choose? Why?

This is the title for your essay.

We’ll continue tomorrow.

So do I / Neither do I

Questions in the passive

More passive exercises