G question formation I'm not thrilled about answering questions like 'If you

V working out meaning from context were being mugged, and you had a light sabre in one
P friendly intonation, showing interest pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'

1 READING & SPEAKING Every week the British newspaper, The

a Look at the photos of Benedict Cumberbatch Guardian, chooses people who have been
and Elisabeth Moss and read their biographical in the news recently, and publishes a short
info. Have you seen any of the TV series or films interview with them called Q&A.
that they have been in? What did you think of
them?
The actor Benedict Cumberbatch was born in
b Now read the interviews and match questions London in 1976. He has starred in many successful TV series
A-G with their answers. and films , including Sherlocli, War Horse, Star Trek , and
A How do you relax? The Hobbit.
B What don't you like about your
appearance? 1 What's one of your happiest memories?
C What's your earliest memory? Sitting with the sun on my face and a beer in my hand, the
morning after I had been in a car-jacking in South Africa.
D What makes you unhappy?
E If you could edit your past, what do you
When I was six, I got stung by a wasp in a Greek market.
think you would change?
A woman pulled down my pants and rubbed an onion on my
F What was your most embarrassing bottom.
moment?
3 What don't you like about your personality?
G Who would you most like to say sorry to? I'm impatient, but also indecisive.
c Read the interviews again using the glossary 4 What is your greatest fear?
to help you. Answer the questions with BC Forgetting people's names.
(Benedict Cumberbatch) or EM (Elisabeth
Moss). The size and shape of my head. People say I look like Sid from
Who ... ? Ice Age.
1 D had an embarrassing experience as a child 6 What costume wouJd
2 D finds it hard to make decisions you wear to a fancy
dress party?
3 D avoids answering one of the questions
I rather enjoyed wearing
4 D had a dangerous experience when they bandages round my face
were travelling abroad as the Invisible Man at
5 D had a dangerous experience when they the last one I went to.
were young People got to know me
6 D often hesitates when they're speaking without recognizing me.
7 D was fond of a kind of flower when they 7 Which words or phrases
were a child do you most overuse?
8 D has a favourite decade I say "Erm... " t oo much .
8 What one thing would
d Which of the questions in the interviews do
. k'is ....? improve the quality of
you th m
your life?
• the most interesting Better time management.
• the most boring
• too personal to ask a person who you don't I might not have called
know well Trevor Nunn, the famous
director, 'Adrian' at my
e Choose six questions from Q&A to ask your
first audition for him.
partner.
 2 GRAMMAR question formation
a Now read the questions in lb again and answer
the questions below with a partner.
1 Which questions are examples of... ?
• a subject question, where there is no auxiliary
verb
• a question which ends with a preposition
• a question which uses a negative auxiliary verb
2 W hat happens to the word order in the question
What would you chanBe? when you add do you
think after what?
b )ii-- p.132 Grammar Bank lA. Learn more about
question formation , and practise it.

3 PRONUNCIATION
friendly intonation, showing interest
a 1 4 l)) Listen to some people asking questions
The actress Elisabeth Moss was born in California in 1- 5. Who sounds friendlier and more interested
1982. She has been in several very successful US TV dramas, each time, a orb?
including The West Wing and Mad Men for which she won an
Emmy award. 1 Do you havet_p big family?
2 What don't you liket_pbout the place
where you live?
Going out into the backyard of my home in LA and 3 What sport~r game~re you
pretending to build a vegetable garden with sticks and gooc:Lat?
rocks. I must h ave been five .
4 Do you think you havet_p healthy diet?
2 Which living person do you most admire? s What makes you feel happy?
This is kind of cheesy, but my mum.
3 Which living person do you most despise, and why? b 5 l)) Listen and repeat the questions with
I won't say his name. friendly intonation. Focus on sentence stress and
linking.
Not getting enough sleep.
5 What is your favourite smell?
p Reacting to what someone says
When you ask someone a question and they
Jasmine. I grew up in Los Angeles, in the hills, and there answer, it is normal to show interest by saying, e.g.
was always jasmine growing. Really? or Oh yes? with a friendly intonation, or by
asking a question.
To a really good girlfriend with whom I lost touch when I
was little. I would love to see her again. c 1 6 >)) Now listen to the questions in a
7 If you could go back in time, where would you go? conversation. Complete the expressions or
To a 1930s jazz club in New York City. I love the art deco questions that the man or woman use to react to
period - the jewellery, the clothes, the music. the answers.
1 Wow ! That's a huge family.
I am big fan of getting a box set and watching the entire show 2 ____? What's wrong with them?
in two or three weeks. I'm watching The Sopranos at the 3 _ ___! We could have a game one day.
moment, because I missed it when it first came out. 4 ! How long have you been a vegan?
9 What has been your most Glossary 5 ? I can't think of anything worse!
frightening experience? car-jacking the crime of fo rcing the
When I was little, I was driver of a car to take you somewhere d 1 7 >)) Listen and repeat the responses. Copy the
or give you their ca r intonation.
on a lake in the US and Emmy a US awa rd s imilar to the
got caught underneath Oscars, but for TV
backyard Amf back ga rden e Ask and answer the questions with a partner.
a rowing boat. That was
pretty scary.
cheesy informal too ernotional Use friendly intonation, and react to your
o r romantic in a way that is
partner's answers.

m
embarrassing, e.g. a cheesy love song
Adapted from The Guardian
 lA
question formation indirect questions
1 Should we buy her a present? How long have 1 2 >)) Could you tell me what time the shop next door 3 >))
you been waiting? How many children does your sister opens? Do you know if (whether) Mark's coming to the
have? meeting?
2 Why didn't you like the film? Isn't this a beautiful place?
3 What are they talking about? Who does this bag belong We use indirect questions when we want to ask a question in
t o? a more polite way, and begin with Can / Could you tell me ...?
4 Who lives in that house? How many people follow you or when we introduce a question with, e.g. Do you know ... ?
on Twitter? Do you remember...?
Compare
1 We make questions with modal verbs and with tenses where What time does the shop next door open? (direct question), and
there is an auxiliary verb (be, have, etc.) by inverting the Could you tell me what time the shop next door opens? (indirect
subject and the modal/ auxiliary verb. With the present and question)
past simple, we add the auxiliary verb do / does or did before
• In indirect questions the order is subject+ verb. Can you
the subject.
tell me where it is? NOT Ca:nyott tell me whe1 e is it?
2 We often use negative questions to show surprise or when we
• We don't use do /did in the second part of the question.
expect somebody to agree with us.
Do you know where he lives? NOT whe1 e does he li11e.
3 If a verb is followed by a preposition, the preposition comes at
• You can use if or whether in questions without a question
the end of the question, not at the beginning NOT libottt what
word (What, How many, etc.) and after Can you tell me,
a:i eyott talking?
Do you know, etc.
• We often just use the question word and the preposition,
e.g. A I'm thinkinB. B What about?
4 When who /what/ which, etc. is the subject of the question, we
p Other expressions followed by the word order of indirect
questions
don't use do/ did, e.g. Who wrote this? NOTV9ql0 did w1 ite this? The word order of indirect questions is used after:
I wonder.. ., e.g. I wonder why they didn't come.
I'm not sure .. ., e.g. I'm not sure what time it starts.
I can't remember..., e.g. I can't remember where I left my
phone.
I want to know... , e.g. I want to know what time you're
coming home.
Do you have any idea ...?, e.g. Do you have any idea if
(whether) James is on holiday this week?

a Order the words to make questions. b Complete the questions with the words in brackets.
Where didyou&o on holiday last year? (you / go)
1 How often exercise? (you / usually do)
2 Who Oliver Twist? (write)
3 Could you tell me how much ?
(this book/ cost)
4 I can't remember where _______ my car this
morning. (I /park)
tomorrow can't Why come you ?
5 _______ your trip to Paris last weekend?
Why can't you come tomorrow?
(you/ enjoy)
1 I Should her tell I feel how ?
6 What kind of work ? (your sister / do)
2 friend known long best have How you your ?
7 Who the last biscuit? (eat)
3 tell when you train next leaves the Could me ?
8 Do you know what time on a Saturday?
4 housework family in Who your the does ?
(the swimming pool / open)
5 are What about you thinking ?
9 the present you gave her? (your sister /
6 at don't weekend you What doing the like ? not like)
7 music to does What Jane kind like listening of ? 10 play your music so loud? I can't
8 you time film know finishes Do what the ? concentrate. (you / have to)
9 class students yesterday to many came How ?
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10 you remember is where Do the restaurant ?