COULD I ASK YOU SOMETHING?

1. Make questions with the following words and phrase from the box below

Married be born birthday children old

divorced nationality drink father favorite
first name wife
Surname food brother flat get up single
go to bed go to work have dinner have lunch
sister husband address house live mother

2. Ask the questions to your partner.

3. Put these words in the correct order and make sentences.
a. were you where born ?
b. nationality what you are ?
c. tell your could what is you me name ?
d. repeat could you that please ?
e. would mind you more slowly speaking please ?
f. you wonder if I could means me what tell “spare time” ?

4. Say these words aloud. Underline the stressed syllables.

Abroad Address Aloud Answer Children

Complete Explain Fluent Foreign Journey
Married Mistake Pronounce Repeat Single

5. Choose words from point 4 that can go in the classroom, work, and private life
columns of this table
CLASSROOM PRIVATE LIFE WORK

6. Complete the questions with words from list activity 1.

a. Are you ? No, I’m not.

b. Do you have any ? Yes, I have two sons.
c. Are you in any other languages?
d. Do you often travel ? Very rarely, I occasionally visit the branch
office in Italy, but that’s about all.
e. Do you have a long to work everyday? Not at all, it only takes
about 15 minutes by car.
7. Look at the common classroom situations 1 to 8 below. Which of the questions a
to h could you ask the teacher in each situation? Put the correct letters in the
boxes.

a. You don’t know how to write a word.

b. You don’t know the English word for something.
c. You don’t understand the meaning of a word.
d. You didn’t hear what someone said.
e. You don’t understand a grammatical point.
f. You have finished an activity and you don’t know what to do.
g. You don’t what page an exercise is on.

1. What do I do next?
2. Could you explain that again?
3. Could you repeat that please?
4. What page are we on?
5. What’s the English word for “bon appétit”?
6. How do you spell ‘answer’?
7. Could you speak more slowly please?
8. What does ‘table’ mean?