Grammar: Tag questions

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 2

Lesson plan

• Rules
• Lesson aims
• Grammar explanation + exercises
• Recap lesson aims
• Homework

Rules

• No talking when I speak;
• Respect;
• When I raise my hand, you are quiet;
• Raise hand for questions/answer;
• Phones IN bags;
• ASK QUESTIONS IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND IT

Lesson aims

After this lesson you:

• Understand the different tag-questions;
• Know when to use which tag-questions;
• Know how to write a correct tag-question.

Tag questions

• What is a tag-question? Do we use them in Dutch?
• "Toch?" "Niet?" "Vind je niet?" "Ja toch of niet?"
• Why do we use them?
• Positive and negative tag-questions

Tag questions

Positive tag-questions

• Used after a negative sentence (ontkennende zin):
• "That isn't true, is it?"
• "We do not have that, do we?"
• "They haven't won, have they?"

Tag questions

Negative tag-questions

Used after positive sentences (bevestigende zin):

"We love English, don't we?"

"We have made our homework, haven't we?"

"We will do all of our homework, won't we?"

Tag questions

How to write them?

• Repeat the form of to-be or the hulpwerkwoorden;
• Hulpwerkwoorden: can, could, to have, should, shall, will, etc.
• None of these verbs present? use form of "to do"
• Repeat the personal pronoun: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, you and there

Tag questions

• We don't need that, ...?
• He has helped her, ...?
• She did not drive him, ...?
• He can come, ...?
• They are very nice, ...?
• You brought money, ...?
• I am annoying, ...?
• There isn't anything you can do, ...?

• do we?
• hasn't he?
• did she?
• can't he?
• aren't they?
• didn't you?
• aren't I?
• is there?

Recap lesson aims

After this lesson you:

• Understand the different tag-questions;
• Know when to use which tag-questions;
• Know how to write a correct tag-question.

Homework

At the end of this week:

2.5 Lesson 4 - Speaking finished, up and until E - Phrases

Homework will be checked!