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Asking Questions

Exercise 1: Ask an appropriate question for the response

  • It was really rather wet and windy with temperatures well below normal.
  • Since eight o'clock this morning.
  • I was cleaning up.
  • I'd buy a new house.
  • She can't be at home, I tried to call her a few minutes ago.
  • Why don't you go shopping?
  • For about 2 years.

Exercise 2: Ask questions to fill the gaps with the missing information

Student A

The last few weeks have been very difficult for my friend ______. He discovered that he hadn't insured his car after his car was stolen __________. He immediately went to his insurance agent, but she told him that he had only bought ____________, and not against theft. He became really angry and ________________, but, of course, he didn't do that in the end. So, he hasn't been driving for the past two weeks, but ___________ to get to work. He works at a company about 15 miles from his home in __________. It used to take him only twenty minutes to get to work. Now, he has to get up at ___________ in order to catch the seven o'clock bus. If he had more money, he would ___________. Unfortunately, he had just spent most of his savings on an _____________ before his car was stolen. He had a wonderful time in Hawaii, but he now says that if he hadn't gone to Hawaii, he wouldn't be having all these problems now. Poor guy.

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