Question Tags

Question tags are common in everyday speech and in informal writing. They are used to check whether something is true (the speaker expresses their uncertainty) or to ask for agreement. 

Examples where a common pattern can be followed, pay attention which part of the sentence is positive and which negative, auxiliary verbs are marked in red and subjects (alus) in green. 

1) You have seen this film, haven't you? (sentence itself is positive, question tag is negative)

2) The tea isn't very nice, is it? ( negative sentence, positive tag)

3) They liked the film, didn't they? 

4) You've met Jo before, haven't you?

5) The firemen can see our car, can't they?

6) There wasn't anybody present, was there?

More difficult sentences

1) I am saying it correctly, aren't I? (BUT => I'm not saying it correctly, am I?

2) Interesting game, isn't it?

3) Nobody phoned last night, did they?

4) It has hardly rained all summer, has it? (PS! "hardly" gives a negative meaning to the sentence, that's why tag is positive)

5) Nothing matters to you, does it?

6) Somebody's forgotten their coat, haven't they?

7) Don't shout at me, will you? (With negative commands use will!)

8) Let's go home, shall we?  (Let's = Let us)

Let's practise

CLICK HERE: Multiple choice

CLICK HERE: A matching exercise

CLICK HERE: Type question tags

CLICK HERE: 10 sentences

BBC: timeline and numbers

1922 -

1930 - 

1932 - 

1936 - 

1939-1946

1953 - 

20  / 3 

1950s

1954

4 / 188 - 

23,000

10 / 59

100s

Re. Speech: Online-Exercises

 PAIRWORK

Baamboozle => Games => Search for a game => enter this number Game Code: 448765

Game Code: 2477287

Task 1: Statements 1

Task 2: Statements (and 1 command)

Task 3:  Statements She said that....

Task 4: Statements 2

Task 5: Statements 3

Direct Speech => Reported Speech

 I When somebody says something right now and you are reporting it back. 

1) STATEMENTS (jutustavad laused.)

Mary says to Tom, "I like your haircut."

Mary tells Tom (that) she likes his haircut. 

2) IF-QUESTIONS (Yes or No)

Mary says to Tom, "Do you like my new haircut?"

Mary asks Tom if he likes her new haircut. 

3) WH-QUESTIONS

Mary says to Tom, "Where did you have your hair cut?"

Mary asks Tom where he had his hair cut. 

4) REQUESTS (palumine)

Mary says to Tom, "Help me, please."

Mary asks Tom to help her. 

5) ORDERS (käsklused)

Mary says to Tom, "Do it now!"

Mary tells Tom to do it now. 

Reported Speech

 Video

Quiz

Task 1: Study the shifts

"Direct speech"	Reported speech
1.here	1. there
2. now	2. then, at that moment
3. yesterday	3. the day before, the previous day
4. tomorrow	4. the next day, the following day
5. this	5.  that
6. these	6.  those
7. today	7.  that day
8. tonight	8.  that night
9. last week	9. the week before, the previous week
10. next week	10.  the next week, the following week
11. ago	11.  before
12. soon	12.  later
13. plays	13.  played
14. were	14.  had been
15. am going	15. was going
16. has seen	16.  had seen
17. were drawing	17.  had been drawing
18. don’t imagine	18.  didn't imagine
19. didn’t go	19.  hadn't gone
20. will	20. would
21. have to	21.  had to
22. can	22.  could

23. could                                23. could /was, were able to

24. must                                 24. had to / must

25. may                                  25. might

26. might                               26. might

27. should                              27. should

28. would  (like)                    28. would (like)

Task 2: Reporting verbs

How many different reporting verbs do you know?


Task 3 : Time shifts and the change of adverbs

Direct speech	Reported speech
1.here	1.
2. now	2.
3. yesterday	3.
4. tomorrow	4.
5. this	5.
6. these	6.
7. today	7.
8. tonight	8.
9. last week	9.
10. next week	10.
11. ago	11.
12. soon	12.
13. plays	13.
14. were	14.
15. am going	15.
16. has seen	16.
17. were drawing	17.
18. don’t imagine	18.
19. didn’t go	19.
20. will	20.
21. have to	21.
22. can	22.

Museums

Choose from here:

The Natural History Museum (London);

The Maritime Museum of San Diego, the USA; 

Madame Tussauds; 

Anne Frank House; 

Automobile Museum, Mulhouse, France;

The Tank Museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York; 
The State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia; 
The Louvre, Paris, France; 
The Science Museum, London, the UK

1) ___________ was a medieval fortress and the palace of the kings of France before becoming a museum two centuries ago. Main attractions: “Venus de Milo,” “Winged Victory of Samothrace,” and Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa.”

2) ________ occupies six buildings along the Neva River, the leading structure being the confection-like Winter Palace. This gloriously baroque structure was finished in 1764 and over the next several centuries was the main residence of the czars. Catherine the Great founded the museum that same year when she purchased 255 paintings from Berlin.  

3) _______ is the largest museum in the Western Hemisphere. Main attractions: “Adam and Eve,” the well-known engraving by Albrecht Dürer. 

4) Here, in  __________  70 million or so specimens, lies the evidence of what man has learned of all facets of creation over the last 250 years. So important is this collection, that parts of it have been presented over the centuries as evidence used to debate and argue the age of the planet and the evolution of life.

5) ________ is a wax museum in London with smaller museums in a number of other major cities. The museum was named after the wax sculptor who founded it. 

6) _______ is a writer's house and biographical museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist. During World War II, she hid from Nazi persecution with her family and four other people in hidden rooms at the rear of the 17th-century canal house, known as the Secret Annex. The museum opened on 3 May 1960 and preserves the hiding place, has a permanent exhibition and has an exhibition space about all forms of persecution and discrimination.

7) _______ is a major museum in London. It was founded in 1857 and today is one of the city's major tourist attractions, attracting 3.3 million visitors annually. Like other publicly funded national museums in the United Kingdom, _______  does not charge visitors for admission. 

8)  ______ is built around the Schlumpf Collection of classic automobiles. It has the largest displayed collection of cars and contains the largest and most comprehensive collection of Bugatti motor vehicles in the world.

9) _______ was established in 1948, preserves one of the largest collections of historic sea vessels in the United States. 

10) ______ is a collection of armoured fighting vehicles in South West England.  With almost 300 vehicles on exhibition from 26 countries it is the largest collection of fighting vehicles and the third largest collection of armoured vehicles in the world.

Broadcasting the News

 1) Open Office.com PowerPoint presentation.

2) Share your document with your deskmate. 

3) Create a title slide together - what's the name of your channel / news programme, add your names 

4) Choose 1 domestic news - add only the headline and a relevant image. Take notes. 

5) Choose 1 international news. 

6) Choose 1 business and finance news.

7) Choose 1 sports news.

8) Choose 1 news for the gossip column / fake news

9) Decice which news is your breaking news and has to be the first. Move that slide to the front. 

10) Make sure you have divided your roles - who is reporting each news.