How do you construct questions? If you’ve learned English, you’ve probably asked yourself this question many times, even after learning rules about questions in the classroom. However, learning the rules for making questions is just one of two different ways to learn how to construct correct questions. The other way is just to learn a big number of correct questions without thinking about why they are correct. Is the old, rules-based approach bad? Not at all! Each way- the rules way and the lots of examples way- help each other out. Listen to episode 5 and hear 201 correct yes/ no questions. If you want maximum effect, stop the recording after each question and repeat it. It’s a lot of work, but believe me, it will help you!
Episode 5: More questions, less rules.
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Do you think it would be beneficial to put all the questions here in order students could do the shadowing?
PS I’m getting the feeling of being a stalker on your podcast;)
Hi Elizaveta,
Don’t worry, you are welcome here!
What do you mean by “in order”? With some spaces between them?
I’m working on a PDF with all the questions in a table, it really shows how all of the questions are built in the same way.
PS- What did you think of the explanation about “be”? I never heard anyone give a proper explanation of it! I bet it would also work for your students learning German!
I guess you mean place them in order of gradually ascending difficulty?