Session 11: Asking Questions
Unit 1: Communication Skills
Textual Question-Answers
Check Your Progress
A. Multiple choice questions
Read carefully all the options given below the question and choosethe correct option(s).
1. What are close-ended questions?
(a) Questions that can have any answer
(b) Questions that do not have answers
(c) Questions with yes or no answers
(d) Questions that have many answers
Ans: (c) Questions with yes or no answers
2. Which of these are open-ended questions?
(a) Where do you live?
(b) Are you hungry?
(c) How do you feel?
(d) Did you meet him?
Ans: (a) Where do you live? and (c) How do you feel?
3. Which is not a question word?
(a) What
(b) Want
(c) Which
(d) How
Ans: (b) Want
4. Which of these is the correct way to convert the sentence “Youare studying” into a question?
(a) You are studying?
(b) Studying you are?
(c) Are you studying?
(d) Studying are you?
Ans: (c) Are you studying?
B. Subjective question
1. Make a note of 10 questions your friends asked you. How manywere open-ended questions? Make a list of 10 close-ended questionsyou have asked.
Ans:
Examples of questions my friends asked me:
1. How was your exam today?
2. Where are you going after school?
3. Why are you late today?
4. What did you do yesterday evening?
5. How do you feel about the test result?
6. Are you coming to school tomorrow?
7. Did you complete your homework?
8. Do you like this subject?
9. Is this book yours?
10. Have you eaten your lunch?
Open-ended questions: 5
Close-ended questions: 5
Examples of 10 close-ended questions I have asked:
1. Are you feeling better now?
2. Did you finish your homework?
3. Is this your pen?
4. Do you like cricket?
5. Are you coming to the class today?
6. Have you seen my notebook?
7. Is the test difficult?
8. Can you help me?
9. Did you attend the meeting?
10. Are you ready for the exam?
