Echo questionsOnline version Some pieces of a video to check that students understand the usage of Echo Questions. by Ana María Sánchez 1 How important is it sounding interested? Select one or more answers a Not important at all if you don't like the person you're talking to. b Not very important. The person will know if you are paying attention if they know you. c Really important. If the other person sees you're not interested the conversation will stop soon. 2 What do you have to do to sound interested? a You have to repeat the auxiliary verb. b Not very important. The person will know if you are paying attention if they know you. c Really important. If the other person sees you're not interested the conversation will stop soon. 3 How do you sound interested? Written answer 4 What's the echo question if the sentence is "My neck is really hurting" Select one or more answers a Does it? b Isn't it? c Is it? d Doesn't it? 5 What's the echo question if the sentence is "I've had a really energetic weekend" Select one or more answers a Did you? b Haven't you? c Have you? d Didn't you? 6 What's the echo question if the sentence is "I have a large swimming pool. Written answer 7 Make the echo question. "I had a terrible night last night" Written answer Explanation 1 Your face and your intonation can invite the other person to reply or just the other way round. 2 To sound interested, you have to repeat the auxiliary verb and add a personal pronoun. 3 The key to it is to invert the order of the auxiliary verb and the subject, as you do when you are making questions. 4 If the sentence is positive, we use a positive auxiliary verb, if we use the verb to be in the sentence, we also use the verb to be in the echo question. 5 We use the verb to have as an auxiliary verb in sentences where the tense is present perfect. 6 Since have here is not an auxiliary verb, it is not necessary to repeat the verb. We use do instead. 7 If we have a normal verb in the past, we make the exho question with the auxiliary verb in the past.
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