DUTR -2EIM Questions Tags

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 1

Question tags

Today's goals

• You can ask for confirmation by using question tags. 
• You can explain the rules of question tags.

- Watch: CBBC Newsround 

- Grammar Note: Question Tags (SOM)

- check homework : SB ex. 2/5/6

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Today's goals

• You can ask for confirmation by using question tags. 
• You can explain the rules of question tags.

- Watch: CBBC Newsround

- Grammar Note: Question Tags

- Do + check: Exc. 8 (WB, p. 87)

Question Tags

What are they?

-short questions at the end of a sentence to confirm/check information

-similar to "ja toch?", "toch?", "vind je niet?", "niet waar?"

-repeat the auxiliary verb ( be, do, have, will) + subject 

 She is watching that new Netflix show, isn't she?

 -if there is no auxiliary verb, use do/don't, does/doesn't or did/didn't

                                                   Forms of  'to be': am / are / is

If the sentence is positive, the question tag is  negative 

> You are a runner, aren't you?

If the sentence is  negative, the question tag is positive

> She isn't happy, is she? 

QUESTION TAGS - 'to be'

Beware!

• the negative question tag which belongs to "I am", is irregular 
           - I am a good basketball player, aren't I? 
  
  
• Positive question tag which belongs to  "I am" is regular
           -I am not a good basketball player, am I?

> Let's dance, shall we?

> Just listen, will you!

Imperatives

More irregular question tags

• always use a personal pronoun (I, you, we, they, he, she, it) in a question tag
  
  
• Laura is a great hockey player, isn't Laura she?
  
• Jenny and Ella aren't at school, are Jenny and Ella they?
• The ball isn't on the field, is the ball it?

He isn't at home, _________?

1. is he
2. isn't he
3. he is
4. he isn't

My sister is funny, ________ ?

1. is my sister
2. isn't my sister
3. is she
4. isn't she

Dr. Dolittle can talk to animals, _____?

1. can he?
2. can Dr. Dolittle?
3. can't he
4. can't Dr. Dolittle

I'm late, ________ ?

1. am I
2. amn't I
3. are I
4. aren't I

Jane can't read Spanish books, ______?

1. can Jane?
2. can she?
3. can't Jane?
4. can't she?

He isn't alone at home, _______?

Your parents are from a town in the Netherlands, ______?

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Today's goals

• You can ask for confirmation by using question tags. 
• You can explain the rules of question tags.

- Watch: CBBC Newsround + Padlet

- Grammar Note: Question Tags

- check homework: SB ex. 2/5/6