Hello, everybody. How are you?
My name is Katharine and I'm your English teacher.
Today we're going to see the WH questions.
We use why to ask about reasons.
For example.
And we use how to ask about procedures.
For example.
As you can see, most of the question words
start with WH.
We can use these WH questions to find out information
about things that happen.
For example, we can find out information about something
and write an article in addition to a newspaper.
Can you imagine that we work for a nature magazine?
We can write an article. Are you ready?
Let's go, let's be journalists.
We can write an article about the new baby panda
that was born in China last week.
Do you like pandas? I love pandas!
Yes, I love pandas.
And we have to protect them because they are in danger.
There are many left in the world.
There were a lot before, and now not so many.
So, to find out information, what do we need?
We need the WH questions.
So, let's practice the WH questions.
First: what happened?
Where did it happen?
When did it happen?
Who saw the baby panda first?
And he took this picture.
How many pandas live in the wild?
That's not very many.
Why is this baby panda so important?
And there are many left.
Now we have all the information we need.
We know what happened, where, when,
who, how and why.
So now, we can write the article for a nature magazine.
I can help you start and then, you can finish it. Okay?
A baby panda was born in the forest in the south of China
in September... What else happened?
You know because of the WH questions.
Come on, it's your turn.
You can write news about anything using the WH questions.
You can write news about your city, about a film,
about a skate competition.
About a dancing rabbit!
You can use the WH questions to do research or to investigate.
For example:
Dad bakes a really nice cake in the kitchen.
But now it's gone missing.
Let's play detective.
First: what?
That's easy, the cake is missing.
When? After dad took it out of the oven.
Where? The cake was in the kitchen.
Who?
Now, that's something to find out.
And how?
Let's look for some clues.
Like cat footprints.
I think you can discover now what happened.
Remember to use the WH questions, they are really useful.
So, good luck finding the cake and see you soon!
Bye!