Learn English with Alexa (Amazon Echo) | How to ask questions

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Eat Sleep Dreamers welcome to a very special English because today we're going to be learning
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English with Alexa. With Alexa! Alexa? Alexa! Alexa! Hey Alexa? Alexa? Alexa. Alexa. Alexa.
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There she is.
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Welcome guys. Ok, so today we're going to be looking at how to make questions. Particularly
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with wh- question words. And then we're going to ask them to Alexa, ok? Oh, hi Alexa. Hi.
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First of all let's look at the words order to make questions and then we're going to
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have some fun with her.
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Let's review our word order for questions. So we're looking specifically today at questions
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that begin with a wh- word. So, when, where, who, why, what etc. or how as well. So the
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word order would be the question word then the auxiliary. That could be be, do or have.
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Then you've got the subject and then the verb. And then sometimes we have other information
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afterwards but in this example we won't ok so my example is 'Where were you born?' So
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where is the question word. Were is the auxiliary, that's be in the past. You is the subject
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and born the verb, ok? So 'where were you born?' Now that's the general word order for
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a question, ok? Now the reason that we are using the wh- question word is because we
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want specific information. So where were you born? I was born in London. That's specific
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information. Now the questions we're going to be asking Alexa also require specific information.
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I'm not going to ask her 'Do you like chocolate?' Yes or no. That's not the kind of question
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I'm going to ask her and that's a different type of question. These ones are wh- question
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words questions and so we want specific information and so that's the word order. So question
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word, auxiliary, subject, verb and then the rest after if there is extra information.
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One thing we have to look out for is the difference between subject questions and object questions.
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This is all about what's the answer to the question. A subject question is where we want
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to find out about the subject. So for example 'Who sung the song Gangnam Style?' So who
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is the subject of the sentence. Gangnam Style is the object. So as you can see here we've
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got who, ok? Then we've got the verb so who sung and we don't have an auxiliary ok that's
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the key thing here. When you are using a subject question you don't need to use the auxiliary.
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So it's the question word and then the verb. Another example might be 'Which team won the
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2014 world cup?' So there 'which team' is the subject and 'won' is the verb and 2014
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world cup is the object. If we compare that to object questions. The answer to the question
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is the object. Now, it's the regular word order that I showed you earlier so for example
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'Who is your favourite singer?' So who is the object of the sentence. You are the subject
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of the sentence. So who is your favourite singer? The answer would be 'My favourite
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singer is whoever Beyonce or whatever Ed Sheeran.' So you are the subject and Beyonce or Ed Sheeran
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is the object. So the word order is the same as a regular question I guess. Who is the
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question word, is is the auxiliary and then you have the rest afterwards. So that's going
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to be important when I'm asking Alexa questions be aware to see which ones are subject questions
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and which ones are object questions. And remember the slight difference in word order. Alright
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let's get to know Alexa a little better.
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Alexa, when were you born? I' was originally released on the sixth of November 2014'. Ok
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we're now going to do a very special quiz. I'm going to ask Alexa some questions and
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then we're going to pause before she gives us the answer and you guys have to guess what
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the answer is. Are you ready? This is the Eat Sleep Dream English super quiz. Are you
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ready? Are you steady? Let's go! Alexa, which football team won the 2014 world cup?' Germany
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national football team won the world cup in 2014. What is the largest city in the world?
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The largest city is Tokyo. Tokiy, is that the same as Tokyo? Tokiyo! It's near Tokyo.
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What is the tallest building in the world? The tallest building is Burj Kalifah. Where
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is the Burj Khalifa? The Burj Khalifa is a skyscraper in Dubai. Alexa, how do you spell
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banana? B-A-N-A-N-A. How do you spell Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious? That's right. Alexa, what is the smallest
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country in the world? The smallest UN recognised country is Vatican City. Thank you. Alexa,
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play Gangnam Style. Louder.
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Eat Sleep Dreamers to practise your questions and everything that we've looked at today
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what I'd like you to do is to write a question for me in the comments below, ok? Write a
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question for me, it could be about English, it could be about me, it could be about England,
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London, Britain whatever you want. Put them in the comments below and I'll check to see
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if they are grammatically correct and then I'm going to make another video for you guys
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to answer those questions, ok? So write your question in the comments below or you could
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do it on my Facebook page or my Instagram account and I will answer them for you.
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Thank you for hanging out with me, this has been a lot of fun guys I hope you've enjoyed
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it. I think this is the first ever English lesson with Alexa. Alexa say goodbye, goodbye,
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goodbye from me too.
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