The ESL Teacher Kenn Podcast

hello students this is teacher Kenn

welcome to another episode of Advanced English

for the Bilingual Professional

in today's episode

we're going to discuss negative questions

please refer to page 266

in our English sentence structure book

Box B and Exercise 4 of Lesson 25

PDF page 279

without further ado let's get started

so the important thing to remember

regarding negative questions

is that

changing the structure from affirmative to negative in

the question does

NOT change the intention of the question being asked

especially in cases where we are asking

yes or no questions

let's read the questions and short answers in Box B

repeat after me

is the teacher here today

yes he is

is this lesson 26

no it isn't

isn't the teacher here today?

yes he is

isn't this lesson 26?

no it isn't

very good

exercise for is not very complicated

the only thing we have to remember is that

even if the question is in a negative form

your answer remains yes or yes and no for no

according to the question being asked

I'm going to make the negative question

and I will give you a moment to give me

the short answer

after you give me the short answer

I will say it myself

so you can compare your answer to mine

so repeat my answer

to internalize any corrections necessary

we will alternate affirmative and negative answers

one after the other starting from the examples

that means that No. 1 is negative

the answer to No. 2 is affirmative

the answer to No. 3 is negative

and so forth

now let's go ahead

exercise 4 from the examples

isn't Brazil in South America?

yes it is

didn't Columbus discover China?

no he didn't

shouldn't we always speak English?

yes we should

before we start with No. 1

I will cue you whether to answer yes or no

but keep them close to reality again

answer yes for yes and no for no

No. 1

isn't Spain in Europe? answer yes

yes it is

isn't France in South America?

answer no

no it isn't

isn't English an easy language?

answer yes

yes it is

don't most of the people in the United States

speak English? answer yes

yes they do

don't most of the people in Brazil speak Portuguese?

answer yes

yes they do

don't most of the students in this class speak English

well? answer yes

yes they do

can't a plane go faster than a train can?

answer yes

yes it can

can't more people ride in a plane than in a bus?

answer yes

yes they can

can't a man work harder than a woman can?

no he can't

didn't Edison invent the electric light?

answer yes

yes he did

No. 11 didn't Edison invent the automobile?

answer no

no he didn't

haven't you Learned to speak English perfectly yet?

answer no

no I haven't

shouldn't you practice 10 hours every day?

answer no

no I shouldn't

don't you expect to speak English perfectly next year?

answer yes

yes I do

and No. 15

don't you think the answers to negative questions are

easy? answer yes

yes I do

very good

if you'd like some extra practice

in the correct creation of negative questions

you can go ahead and do exercises 5 and 6

in our English Structure Practices book

Lesson 25

that is on pages 330 and 331

PDF pages 656 and 657

and that would be everything

regarding negative questions

in our next episode of Advanced English

for the Bilingual Professional

we will be discussing tag questions

you will find that very interesting, won't you? ;)

share this

episode with people who are looking to improve their

English accuracy

and until next time remember that English is easy

you've got me for practice

see you in the next class