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2.2.12: Making Information Questions with the Present Continuous Tense

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    Making Information Questions with the Present Continuous Tense

     Exercise 15:  Make information questions with the word following the sentence, please.

    1.  The boys are taking their books to school with them.

    Where

    2.  My sister is smoking a cigarette now.

    What

    3.  We are learning the present continuous in English now.

    What

    4.  My students are sitting in school now.

    When

    5.  You are learning to speak English in class every day.

    When

    6.  The dog is following the girls to school.  [Be careful.]

    Who

    7.  I am writing this exercise now.

    What

    8.  You are studying English this quarter.

    When

    9.  The teacher is sitting in front of the room now.

    Where

    10.  My sister is living in Rhode Island now.

    Where

    Exercise 16:  Make WH questions with the words that follow the sentences, please.

    1.  The boy is running to school now.

    Where

    2.  The man is carrying my wife’s pots and pans for her.

    Whose

    3.  Some students are wearing traditional clothes to class today.

    What kind of

    4.  My student is talking to the tired old lady.

    Which

    5.  My wife and her friend are watching television right now.

    What

    6.  I am writing my lesson plans in the kitchen this evening.

    When

    7.  The student is carrying ten pencils in her bag.

    How many

    8.  A mechanic is fixing my wife’s car.

    Whose

    9.  My dog is taking a walk with my son right now.

    Who(m)

    10.  Some students are studying very hard because they want to learn English fast.

    Why

    11.  Some people are thinking about their friends in other countries now.

    Who(m)

    12.  My neighbor’s son is playing the drums in his house.

    What

    13.  The vacation from school is coming up in three weeks.

    When

    14.  The weather is getting colder.

    How

    15.  I am writing this exercise at home right now.

    Where

    16.  My son is living in a house near my house.

    Where

    17.  My wife is teaching my son how to cook chicken in our kitchen now.

    Who(m)

    18.  My wife is watching a travel program on TV now.

    What


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