Session 10: Asking Questions II
Unit 1: Communication Skills
Textual Question-Answers
Check Your Progress
A. Multiple choice questions
1. What are close-ended questions?
(a) Questions that can have any answer
(b) Questions that do not have answers
(c) Questions with yes/no answers
(d) Questions that have many answers
Ans: (c) Questions with yes/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 of these are question words?
(a) What
(b) Want
(c) Which
(d) How
Ans: (a) What, (c) Which and (d) How
4. Which of these is the correct way to convert the sentence “You are 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. Short answer questions
Make a note of five questions your friends asked you. How manywere open-ended questions? Make a list of five close-ended questionsyou asked other people in one day.
Ans: The five questions my friends asked me were: Where are you going? How was your day? Did you complete your homework? Are you coming toschool tomorrow? What is your favourite subject?
Out of these, three questions were open-ended questions.
The five close-ended questions I asked other people were: Are you ready? Did you eat food? Is this your book? Can you help me? Do you like music?
