: Wh- questions

A   We can make Wh- questions with do or be. Match the question words to the information
they ask about.

Wh- word

Information

1        What is your favourite plant?

a        people

2        Who’s that girl?

b        places

3        What time do you go home?

When is that programme on TV?

c        reasons

4        Where are my boots?

d        things and activities

5        How do they catch their prey?

e        time

6        Why are you reading that book?

f        way/manner

B          Reorder the words to make sentences.

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1   is / a food / chain / What / ?                                                                                                                                                                    

                                          What is a food chain?                               

2   all / in our planet’s ecosystem / animals and plants / important / Why / are / ?                  

      ___________________________________________________________

3   do / Where /emperor / live / penguins / ?                                                                                                                       

      ___________________________________________________________

4   emperor penguins / When / thousands of / meet / breed / together / do / to ?      

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5   emperor penguins / keep / How / do / egg / warm / their / ?                                                                 

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6   groups of / keep / warm / do / male penguins / How / ?                                                                                     

      ___________________________________________________________

C          Match the questions in Activity B to the answers a–g.

a    Because all living things are part of
food chains.

b    By balancing it on their feet and covering it with their lower body

c    In autumn.

d    In the Antarctic.

e    It shows the relationship between living things and their sources of food.

f     They huddle together.