Exercise 134. Choose the correct answer.

1. After lunch you phoned someone.

A Who phoned you?

B Who did you phone?

2. The policeman is interviewing the robber.

A Who is interviewing the robber?

B Who is the robber interviewing?

3. … is it from here to St. Petersburg?

A How far

B How long

4. … would you like to drink?

AWhich

BWhat

5. … of brothers Grimm was the eldest?

AWho

B What

C Which

6. It’s so cold today. … put on your warm coat?

A Why you haven’t

BWhy haven’t you

7. – … birthday is it today?

– It’s Janet’s birthday today. She is 19.

A Which

B Whom

C What

DWhose

8. … does it cost to stay at the Hilton hotel?

A How many

B How much

C What

9. – … is Pam’s sister? – She’s a secretary at our college.

A What

BWho

C Where

10. You can have a photo. … one would you like?

A What

B Which

11. – Tell me something about Fred’s wife. …?

– Oh, she’s about 25, she’s pretty and friendly.

A What is she?

BWhat does she like?

CWhat is she like?

D Who is she?

12. – … will it take me to learn French?

– I think you’ll be able to speak in another few months.

AHow long

BHow much

CWhat

13. Bob and Alice got married in 1991.

A How long have they been married?

BHow long is it since they got married?

C When did they get married?

Exercise 135. Ask Liz questions. (Look at her answers before you write the questions.)

1. (where/from?) Where are you from? From London originally.

2. (where/live/now?) Where ____________________ In Manchester.

3. (married?) ________________________________ Yes.

4. (how long/married?) ________________________ 12 years.

5. (children?)________________________________ Yes, three boys.

6. (how old/they?)____________________________ 4, 7 and 8.

7. (what/husband/do?)_________________________ He’s a policeman.

8. (he/enjoy his job?) _________________________ Yes, very much.

9. (arrest/anyone/yesterday?)___________________ I don’t know.

10. (how often/go/on holiday?)__________________ Usually once a year.

11. (where/next year?) ________________________ We don’t know yet.

Exercise 136. Make questions with who or what.

1. Somebody hit me. Who hit you?

2. I hit somebody. Who did you hit?

3. Somebody gave me the key. Who________________________________________

4. Something happened to me last night. What ________________________________

5. Diane told me something. ______________________________________________

6. This book belongs to somebody. _________________________________________

7. Somebody lives in that house. __________________________________________

8. I fell over something. _________________________________________________

9. Something fell on the floor. _____________________________________________

10. This word means something. ___________________________________________

11. I borrowed the money from somebody. __________________________________

12. I’m worried about something. _________________________________________

13. I want something to eat. ______________________________________________

Exercise 137. Put the words in brackets in the correct order. All the sentences are questions.

1. (when/was/built/this/house) When was this house built?

2. (how/cheese/is/made) _________________________________________________

3. (when/invented/the computer/was) ______________________________________

4. (why/Sue/working/isn’t/today) __________________________________________

5. (what time/coming/your friends/are) ______________________________________

6. (why/was/cancelled/the concert) _________________________________________

7. (where/your mother/was born) __________________________________________

8. (why/you/to the party/didn’t/come) ______________________________________

9. (how/the accident/did/happen) __________________________________________

10. (why/this machine/doesn’t/work) _______________________________________

11. (why/Mary/wasn’t/at work/yesterday) ___________________________________

12. (what/the weather/was like/yesterday) ___________________________________

13. (which job/Jane/has applied/for) ________________________________________