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Wh Questions in English 

List Of Wh Questions With Examples

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In English there are two types of questions all students must learn about. 

These are Wh- questions and yes/no questions. Wh- questions, also known as ‘open questions’, are question words that begin with Wh (with the exception of ‘how’).

There are seven Wh questions in English. These are who, what, when, where, why, which and how.

Wh- questions are known as open questions because when answering Wh- questions there are many possible responses you can give. 

Yes/no questions, on the other hand, can only be answered with a ‘yes’ or ‘no’, and this is why these types of questions are known as ‘closed questions.’

In this post we have put together an extensive list of Wh questions with examples to help you and your students learn about Wh questions in English.

                          Table of Contents

1. Examples of Wh Questions

   1. Who
   2. What
   3. When
   4. Where
   5. Why
   6. Which
   7. How
2. Wh Questions Power Point Lesson
3. Wh Questions Worksheets

Examples of Wh Questions

Who

Who is used in questions to ask about people. Here are some examples of Wh question that start with who:

• Who are you?
• Who is he?
• Who is she?
• Who do you like?
• Who is your best friend?
• Who is on the phone?
• Who did it?
• Who did you meet?
• Who made this cake?
• Who do you think will win?
• Who wants some ice cream?
• Who said that?
• Who is stronger?
• Who is faster?
• Who is the most beautiful?
• Who is the fastest?

What

What is used in questions to ask about something? Here are some examples of wh questions with what: 

• What is it?
• What’s this?
• What’s that?
• What’s your name?
• What’s your last name?
• What’s his name?
• What’s her name?
• What day is it today?
• What’s the weather like today?
• What’s the date?
• What are you doing?
• What is she doing?
• What are they doing?
• What time is it? 
• What do you want to eat?
• What would you like?
• What do you want to be?
• What’s your favorite food?
• What do you do?
• What’s your job?
• What does your father do?
• What does she look like? 
• What do you have?
• What do you have in your bag?
• What grade are you in?
• What did you do yesterday?
• What time do you go to bed?
• What is our homework today?
• What are you good at?
• What do you do for fun?
• What do you do in your spare time?

When

When is used in questions to ask about time. Here are some examples of wh questions with when: 

• When is your birthday?
• When is his birthday?
• When were you born?
• When is the field trip?
• When is their anniversary?
• When does the party start?
• When do you do your homework?
• When is the soccer game on TV?
• When are the banks open?
• When does the train arrive?
• When does the class finish?
• When are you free?
• When should we meet?
• When will you finish work?

Where

Where is used in questions to ask about place. Here are some examples of wh questions with where: 

• Where is my pencil case?
• Where is your book?
• Where are my glasses?
• Where is the post office?
• Where are you from?
• Where is he from?
• Where does she live?
• Where are Chris and Kelly from?
• Where is Canada on the map?
• Where do you eat lunch?
• Where do you want to eat lunch?
• Where do you work?
• Where do you want to go?
• Where is your school?
• Where did you go last weekend?
• Where did you buy that dress?
• Where were you yesterday?
• Where was the meeting?

Why

Why is used in questions to ask the reason for something. Here are some examples of wh questions with why: 

• Why are you so happy?
• Why are you laughing?
• Why are you crying?
• Why were you late?
• Why did you do that?
• Why was Chris not in work yesterday?
• Why do you think he did that?
• Why are you running?
• Why do we need to study English?
• Why does he always complain?
• Why do people exercise? 

Which

Which is used in questions to ask about choices. Here are some examples of wh questions with which: 

• Which do you prefer? The red one or the blue one?
• Which teacher do you like the most?
• Which of my books would you like to borrow?
• Which one is it?
• Which way is it to the library?
• Which restaurant shall we go to?

How

How is used in questions to ask about various things including way / manner, condition/quality, and extent/degree.

Although ‘how’ doesn’t start with Wh- , how is still considered a Wh- question word. Here are some examples of wh questions with how: 

• How are you?
• How old are you?
• How many pencils are there?
• How was your vacation?
• How tall is he?
• How big is the house?
• How long is the river?
• How far is the restaurant?
• How often do you exercise?
• How did you do that?
• How do you cook spaghetti?
• How can I improve my English?  
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Типи питань.      Розділові питання

Disjunctive question (розділове питання) – особливий вид питань, що складається з розповідного речення (стверджувального або ж заперечного) та короткого загального питання. В питальній частині використовується те ж допоміжне або модальне дієслово, що й в розповідній частині, або ж те, що необхідно використовувати для утворення питання для головної частини. Такі питання потребують відповіді «так» або ж «ні».

Якщо розділове питання починається зі стверджувальної частини, то питальна частина буде обов'язково в заперечній формі.

• Claus can swim, can’t he? – Клаус вміє плавати, чи не так?
• You play the piano, don’t you? – Ти граєш на роялі, правда?
• Children have already done your homework, haven’t they? – Діти вже виконали своє домашнє завдання, чи не так?

Якщо розділове питання починається з розповідної частини в заперечній формі, то питальна частина буде стояти обов'язково в стверджувальній формі.

• Kate isn’t sad, is she? – Кейт не сумна, чи не так?
• You didn’t know this, did you? – Ти цього не знав, правда?
• We won’t go to the seaside next weekend, will we? – Ми не поїдемо до моря на наступних вихідних, так?

В питальній частині такого питання в якості підмета завжди використовуються займенники, що дублюють підмет головної розповідної частини.

• Mum is mad, isn’t she? – Мама розлючена, так?
• They will do this job, won’t they? – Вони виконають цю роботу, чи не так?
• Your dog doesn’t want to play, does it? – Твій собака не хоче грати, чи не так?

Английской Королеве не нужен паспорт, чтобы путешествовать.

Да-да, потому что все паспорта в Великобритании технически выдаются от имени королевы, так что самой королеве он не нужен. «Британский паспорт жителям Королевства выдается от имени Ее Величества, поєтому Королеве не обязательно иметь паспорт самой». А вот у всех остальных членов королевской семьи, включая герцога Эдинбургского и принца Уэльского, паспорта есть.

The Queen of England does not need a passport to travel.

Yes, because all passports in the UK are technically issued on behalf of the Queen, so the Queen herself does not need it. “A British passport is issued to residents of the Kingdom on behalf of Her Majesty, therefore the Queen does not need to have a passport herself.” But all the other members of the royal family, including the Duke of Edinburgh and the Prince of Wales, have passports.

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Sample Test Reading Test B2.

• The test consists of two texts. Read them and complete the questions.

TEXT 1                  The city that looks and smells like a landfill site

By Richard Osley in Leeds
The rats are having a field day. The scavengers have been pigging out on the rich
pickings of the refuse collectors‘ strike in the suburbs of Leeds. For two months
the rodents have been fattening themselves up for the coming winter. They are the
only ones who are anything like content.
With wheelie bins overflowing, particularly in student districts such as Headingley
and Hyde Park, the rats have been helping themselves to a rich banquet of
September’s soggy pizza crusts, and mouldy lasagne thrown out weeks ago.
The fat rats have been the beneficiaries of a bitter industrial dispute and strike
action by the city’s refuse collectors. The unrelenting nature of the protest – the
length of the stand-off has inevitably drawn parallels with militant walkouts in the
1980s – has left Headingley shrouded in the whiff of landfill.
The root cause of the dispute also seems to be a throwback to another generation:
the Liberal Democrat and Conservative-run council is attempting to equalise pay
between male and female workers. But instead of raising the pay of female staffers,
it wants to cut the salaries of male workers. The first proposal was a £4,000 drop
for some. What’s more, the council thinks the workers need to increase their work
rate.
The strike, which has gone some way to forcing the council to scale back demands
for wage cuts in recent days, could soon be mirrored elsewhere in the country: bin
collectors in Brighton are also due to walk out this week with similar grievances.
Other local authorities are still working out how to meet new regulations to balance
inequality in pay between the sexes.
Postal workers are newly back on the streets after walking out in the national strike
over pay and conditions. Firefighters across South Yorkshire are also locking horns
with management. So far, everyone in Leeds is assiduously avoiding phrases that
begin with the words “winter of”. But walkouts last week in Doncaster and
Sheffield are concentrating people’s minds. More discontent and more strike action
are expected.
Few of the students in Headingley were alive in 1979. The term “all-out strike” is
just the stuff of political history textbooks. And so, unknowingly, they sit at the

centre of what future books may call a new wave of industrial action. They’re not
enjoying it.
Jess Johnson, a 20-year-old music student, has “flipped”, to use her own phrase.
Looking out of her bedroom window on to the back alley of Headingley Mount,
she is so angry at the sight of giants slabs of mouldy food that she is bagging it up
herself. “If I don’t do it, who is going to do it? It’s gone on so long that if
something isn’t done right now, the problem will just get too big for anyone,” she
says. “It’s disgusting”.
She knows her efforts may be for naught: bin bags that don’t fit in the wheelie bins
risk being ripped apart by foxes or, as the most recent street craze has it, blown up
with fireworks. And so she struggles outside the redbrick terraces, where university
students cram in six to a house, to hold back a waste tide of pizza.
“We’ve bagged our stuff up so it’s not our rubbish,” says Layla-Jane Gabriel who
lives in the next street. “I know it might not be the right attitude but I don’t want to
be picking up other people’s rubbish. Some people have just come along and
dumped it, didn’t even put it in a bag”
Other areas of the city have fared better, cleansed by small cadres of refuse
workers who were finally talked back into work at the end of the week and a
hastily arranged substitute team of new recruits hired by the council to break the
strike.
Some areas are heading towards sanity but the patched-up patrol has clearly not
reached all corners. It’s not obvious why some areas have been left out. The
students are muttering that the area they have colonised has been shifted to the
bottom of the list because they don’t pay council tax.
Adapted from © THE INDEPENDENT

Choose the correct variant:
1. The council wants all of its workers to ...
a. ? ... accept a more equitable pay scale between the sexes.
b. ? ... allow women to earn more than men.
c. ? ... work longer for less salary.

2. The term “all-out strike” ...

a. ? ... belongs to a distant past.
b. ? ... is familiar to students in Headingley.
c. ? ... is a new way of social action against unpleasant political measures.
3. Jess Johnson ...
a. ? ... admits that students are partially responsible for the situation.
b. ? ... is horrified by the state of the street around where she lives.
c. ? ... lives with five other students.
4. Students from Headingley ...
a.? ... are responsible for most of the rubbish left in the streets.
b.? ... have taken no action against the state of their neighbourhood.
c.? ... moan about the behaviour of other people.
5. Some areas of Leeds ...
a. ? ... are being discriminated against due to the type of resident.
b. ? ... have sorted the problem with private teams of refuse workers.
c.? ... struggle to keep the streets clean because they have students living in the
area. 

TEXT 2:                Iraqi interpreters left without help because of rigid guidelines

By Deborah Haynes

The Government’s policy for helping interpreters and others in Iraq who worked
for Britain has undoubtedly saved lives, but a failure to make the scheme more
responsive to individual cases has left scores without assistance. It also sets a
worrying precedent for interpreters working for the British in Afghanistan.
As with the much-criticised Gurkhas resettlement scheme, the Government drew
up strict guidelines for Iraqi candidates that remain resolutely rigid barring anyone
who did not work for 12 consecutive months, even if he clearly risked his life.
Anyone forced to quit before the end of 2005 would also fail to make the grade
even though the killings and threats had started before then.

Mark Brockway, a former Army warrant officer, hired 18 interpreters after he
arrived in Iraq in 2003. Of them, 12 are dead and the other six are living overseas,
including three in Britain. He has been campaigning for the assistance scheme to
become more flexible.
The Prime Minister introduced the initiative only after The Times highlighted the
plight of interpreters in 2007. The majority of about 20,000 Iraqis who worked for
the British in Iraq over the past six years were labourers who experienced minimal
risk. The number of additional people who would benefit if the rules were relaxed
is thus not huge, probably a few dozen at most, and their families. Most do not
want to move to Britain as Basra becomes calm. They simply want compensation
for the pain and trauma they have suffered.
Patrick Mercer MP, the Conservative chairman of the Commons counter-terrorism
subcommittee, said the policy was devised in a narrow way. “The interpreters in
Iraq and Afghanistan are as much a weapon or a resource as any other soldier,
sailor or airman”, he said. “Many of them have been killed or injured. We cannot
afford at this stage not to treat them properly. The legacy we leave in Iraq has got
to be a good one”.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said: “The Locally Engaged Staff
Assistance Scheme is for people with a substantial employment relationship with
the British Government. This is defined as working in a professional and public
role alongside us for a year or more. Those who have worked for shorter periods
are not eligible. We think this is reasonable”. Both the
Foreign Office and the Home Office said that there were no plans to review its
policy. Hundreds were rejected and received nothing. All appeals must be heard by
June 30. A decision has yet to be made on how long to keep the scheme open for
Iraqis still working for the British mission as it winds down.
Adapted from © THE TIMES

Read the following text and choose the FIVE sentences which are correct
according to what you read. Mark the corresponding box. Do not mark more
than five sentences.
1. The British scheme has shown that all interpreters have benefited from this
new policy.
2. The violence against interpreters helping the British started in 2005.
3. Mark Brockway states that the Government should make its assistance
policy less severe.
4. The British Government did not propose the scheme on its own initiative.
5. Now that the conditions are not so strict, many people will benefit from the
assistance policy.
6. The majority of the Iraqis who work for the British are keen on beginning
new lives in Britain.
7. Patrick Mercer, MP, supports the scheme as it is, since it represents a
powerful measure against terrorism.
8. Mr Mercer, declared that British soldiers should not be reckoned as more
necessary than any interpreter.
9. The Locally Engaged Staff Assistance Scheme is not likely to be changed.
10. Although assistance has been largely denied, some cases are still under
consideration.

• READING
• Read the text below. For questions (1 – 6) choose the corect answer (a, b, c, or d).

The first time I saw Ben was when his family moved in next door. It was a hot, sunny day and
we’d heard that the new neighbours were arriving that day. Our old neighbours, the Sharpes, had
moved out a couple of months before and, to be honest, we had not been sorry to see them go.
They were an argumentative couple and once a month there would be one or other of them at the
door, going on about noise, or our cat, or where Dad parked his car. We were all hoping that
whoever moved in next would make a bit more of an effort to get on.
That morning, Mum and Dad were both busy on various projects of their own. With Mum, it was
her ongoing attempt to turn herself into her idea of a traditional housewife, at least for a
weekend. She was going through a baking phase so she spent hours in the kitchen making
biscuits that were either too hard or too sweet for even my young taste. She had a successful
career as a lawyer so she didn’t take her domestic failure too badly. Dad was decorating one of
the bedrooms. I was cycling up and down the street, looking for the removal van every time I
reached the corner and turned back. I wanted to be the first to see it so that I could then be the
one to dash inside with the news. Finally, a large green van with the words ‘Baxter’s Removals’
in gold lettering on the side turned into our street, followed by a blue car. I can’t say that that
was the moment when I first saw Ben, although I suppose I registered that there were people in
the car. I was too busy dropping my bicycle by the side of the road and running into the house
shouting, ‘They’re here! They’re here!’
Mum wiped her hands on a towel and said, ‘Yes, Katy. Let them settle in, though. We’ll give
them a few hours before we start bothering them, shall we?’ I felt disappointed that her reaction
wasn’t more like my own. I ran back outside and down our garden path to the front gate. I stood
on the gate, watching. By this time, the removal van and the car had both pulled up next door
and two large workmen had begun to open up the back of the van. Inside were neatly packed
items of furniture. The family had also got out of the car and were looking up at the house as if
they’d never seen it before, although Dad said he’d seen them looking round when they were
thinking of buying it. The man was tall and dark-skinned, while the woman was very beautiful
and looked younger than my own mum. They were clearly enjoying the moment of arriving at a
new place. A boy of about my own age stood between them, looking at me. He didn’t smile.
They unlocked the door and went inside, the workmen following with the first of their
belongings. I watched for a while as they came back and forth with boxes, banging them down
noisily, occasionally pointing to tell each other where to put things. I had an odd feeling of being
watched and something made me look up. At one of the windows stood the boy, looking down at
me. I smiled and he disappeared into the room. I had had such high hopes, and now it seemed
that it was going to take a lot of hard work to make friends. I sighed and watched the workmen a
little longer. Just as I was thinking of going inside to see how Dad was getting on, I heard a small
voice behind me.
‘I’m Ben. Hello.’ I turned to see the boy standing behind me.
1. According to the writer, the Sharpes
a were very noisy neighbours.
b often found things to complain about.
c were sad to leave the street.
d came round with hefpful advice.
2. The writer says her mother
a is annoyed that she has to work so much.
b doesn’t know what her child likes to eat.
c tries to do something she isn’t very good at.
d thinks that more women should have careers.
3. When the van finally arrives, the writer
a is eager to tell her family what is happening.
b tries to follow it on her bicycle.
c sees Ben for the first time.
d falls over and hurts herself.
4. The writer’s mother
a decides to go to meet the new neighbours.
b feels as excited as the writer does.
c tells her to go and help the neighbours move in.
d suggests that she waits before going to introduce herself.
5. The family stand outside the house looking at it because
a they are not sure they’re at the right house.
b they are happy to be moving into a new house.
c it’s the first time they have seen it.
d they are trying to decide whether to buy it or not.
6. The writer looks up to see the boy at the window because
a she hears a loud noise.
b the workmen point in that direction.
c she hears a voice from diat direction.
d she feels someone is looking at her.

• LANGUAGE USE
• Read and complete the text below. For each of the empty spaces (7—12) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D). Write your

answers on the separate answer sheet.
The person who has won the most Oscars is not known for being an actor but was someone who has brought joy to
children of all ages, Walt Disney. During his (7) _____, Walt Disney won 26 Oscars and 6 special Academy Awards. He was
also only one of two presenters who opened the envelope (8) ____ that he had won the Oscar (the other was composer Irving
Berlin). After his death, James Dean was nominated twice for best actor, once for East of Eden in 1955 and once for Giant in
1956. He did not win (9) ____ time. In 1941 Orson Welles was nominated for best producer, director, actor, and screenwriter. He
only won best screenwriter, along with his collaborator, Herman J. Mankiewicz. The Oscar is only one of the awards (10) ____
by the Academy. Awards for (11) ____ achievements may be a scroll, a medal, or any other design. In 1937 a wooden Oscar
statuette with a movable jaw (12) ____ to ventriloquist Edgar Bergen for his creation of Charlie McCarthy. Walt Disney received
an Oscar and seven miniature statuettes in 1938 when was honoured for his film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
7 A existence B lifetime C biography D job
8 A found out B find out C finding out D to find out
9 A either B every C all D each
10 A given out B given in C given back D given forth
11 A ordinary B exact C popular D special
12 A was presented B is presented C presented D has presented

• WRITING

Last year you and your family celebrated the New Year with your friends in their small country
house not far from your place. Write a letter to your British pen-friend about this celebration.
Don’t forget to mention what special dishes you had for the holiday dinner how you spent the
time and what gifts you prepared for your family and friends.

• Write an informal letter of at least 100 words. Do not write any dates and addresses.

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• What's the weather like?

  Яка зараз погода?

• It's …	Зараз …
  sunny	сонячно
  cloudy	хмарно
  windy	сильний вітер
  foggy	туман
  stormy	шторм

• It's …	Зараз …
  raining	іде дощ
  hailing	злива
  snowing	іде сніг

• What a nice day!	Який приємний день!
  What a beautiful day!	Який чудовий день!

• It's not a very nice day	Не дуже гарний день
  What a terrible day!	Який жахливий день!
  What miserable weather!	Яка жахлива погода!

• It's starting to rain	Починається дощ
  It's stopped raining	Дощ закінчився
  It's pouring with rain	Іде заливний дощ
  It's raining cats and dogs	Дощ ллє як із цебра (буквально: ллє кішками та собаками)

• The weather's fine	Гарна погода
  The sun's shining	Сонце світить

• There's not a cloud in the sky	Небо безхмарне
  The sky's overcast	Небо затягнуте
  It's clearing up	Небо розчищається
  The sun's come out	Показалося сонце
  The sun's just gone in	Сонце тільки що сховалося

• There's a strong wind	Дме сильний вітер
  The wind's dropped	Вітер припинився

• That sounds like thunder	Здається, це грім
  That's lightning	Це була блискавка

• We had a lot of heavy rain this morning	Вранці був сильний дощ
  We haven't had any rain for a fortnight	Тут не було дощу два тижні

7 ознак успішних людей

1. Бажання та цілі. Ваші бажання та цілі мають вирішальне значення у вашому житті. Коли ви зіштовхнетеся з різними перешкодами, саме бажання та цілі дадуть вам сили на їхнє подолання. Вони зосереджують, мотивують, примушують прагнути до перемоги й направляють всю вашу енергію в потрібне русло. 2. Стійкість. Щоб досягти успіху, ви повинні прийняти позицію людини, яка ніколи не здається. Будьте стійкими, не поступайтеся перешкодам і невдачам. Боріться до останнього. 3. Досвід. Досвід безцінний. Всі успішні люди пройшли через багаторічний досвід. До того, як ви досягнете бажаного, ви повинні набратися досвіду. Для цього може знадобитися 10, 20, а іноді й 30 років. 4. Мужність і віра. Іноді необхідно набратися мужності та зважитися на більші жертви. Головне - віра в те, що у вас все вийде. Якщо ви не готові поставити все на кін і зустрітися віч-на-віч з вашими страхами та сумнівами, всі можливості пройдуть повз вас. 5. Щирість і прямота. Ви не досягнете успіху, поки поруч із вами не буде людини, яка вам довіряє, і якій довіряєте ви. Нещирість відштовхує людей, а чесність і відкритість розташовує до себе. Будуйте з людьми довірчі відносини, і вони підтримають вас у важку хвилину. 6. Мудрість. Чи користуєтеся ви мудрими порадами, які вам дають? Хто ваші наставники? Ви не повинні соромитися опиратися на досвід інших. Всі люди повинні допомагати один одному. 7. Особистісний ріст. Чи готові ви до провалів? Всім відомо, що дорога до успіху вимощена цеглинами невдач і невірних рішень. Ви не можете досягти мети, жодного разу не впавши. Якщо ви не помиляєтеся, ви не ростете, а якщо ви не ростете, ви гинете.