Session 26: WH questions

 

Introduction Activity (10 minutes):

                           “Who Am I?” 

• The teacher will describe a person or an object without naming it. For example: "I am a place where you can see many animals. (I am a zoo.)
•  Students will guess the object/person by asking questions like "What is it?" or "Where is it?"

1. "Who is your teacher?"
2. "Where do you live?"
3.  "What time is it?"

•  The teacher will encourage students to form full questions, guiding them to include the WH words in their sentences.

Main Topic/Activity (60 minutes):

 Review of Previous Session:" Quick Recap of WH Questions" (15 minutes)

•   The teacher briefly reviews the basic WH questions (What, Where, When, Who, Why) with simple examples.
•   The teacher writes the question words on the board and asks students to form questions using them. For example:

1.       "Who is your teacher?"
2.       "Where do you live?"
3.      - "What time is it?"

• This activity will refresh the students' understanding of WH questions before moving to more complex sentence structures.

Introduction to Complex Question structures (20 minutes)

•  Explanation: The teacher introduces the structure of more complex WH questions like "Why are you happy?" vs. "Why is the sky blue?"
  
•  Explain that more complex questions may involve different subjects (e.g., person, animal, place) and verbs (e.g., am, are, is, do, did, etc.).
• The teacher writes a few complex questions on the board and asks students to identify the structure:

1.       "Who is your friend?"
2.      "Why are you happy?"
3.      "Where do you go after school?"

•   Tell them verbs like am, is, are, do, did, etc are some auxiliary verbs and these are used in most of WH question structures

  "Question Creation Challenge"(25 minutes)

 Objective: This activity provide students with the opportunity to apply their knowledge of complex question structures in a group setting, reinforcing their understanding through peer interaction.

•    Provide the students pictures of various situations like a family eating dinner, a person traveling, a student studying).
•     Divide students into small groups and tell them to form complex WH questions about the pictures. For example:

1.       "What are they eating?"
2.       "Why is the person traveling?"
3.       "Who is studying?"

• After forming the questions, students will take turns asking and answering their questions within their groups.

 Follow up Tasks (10 minutes):

    Ask them to prepare 5 WH questions to their friend like what they want to know about their friend like “What is your favorite colour ?,” “Where did you buy this bag ?”etc

Review Questions/Assessment Task (10 minutes):

                   "WH Questions in Action"

•  The teacher will call on students randomly to answer a question about themselves. For example

1.       "Why do you like your favorite subject?"
2.       "Who is your favorite teacher?"
3.       "What is your favorite hobby?"

• Students will answer the questions in full sentences. The teacher will correct any mistakes in question formation or response structure.
  

 Expected Learning  Outcome:

Skill Building

• Students craft complex WH questions from visual prompts, enhancing analytical skills.  
•  Real-life Q&A builds confidence in spontaneous communicatio

Knowledge Building

• Complex Question Structures – Students learn to form advanced WH questions using auxiliary verbs (e.g., "Why are you happy?" vs. "Why is the sky blue?").  
• Subject-Verb Agreement – Understand how to match WH words with correct verbs (e.g., "Who is..." for singular, "Where are..." for plural).