HOW OLD?

Age

When we talk about someone’s age, we use of age or old. Of age sounds more formal than old:

He is a fully qualified pilot and is only twenty-five years of age. (more formal)

He is a fully qualified pilot and is only twenty-five years old. (less formal)

When asking direct questions about someone’s age or the age of a thing, we don’t normally use age. We say How old …?

How old are you?

Not: What is your age?

How old is your car?

Not: What age is your car?

EXERCISES: 

Exercise 1:  How old? 

APPEARANCE

EXERCISE:

Exercise1: People's appearance 

To be - negative forms and contractions

To Be - Negative Sentences The negative of To Be can be made by adding not after the verb. Subject To Be Examples I am not I am not from Spain. You are not You are not Australian. He is not He is not thirty years old. She is not She is not a secretary. It is not It is not a small cat. We are not We are not stupid. You are not You are not teachers. They are not They are not single. To Be - Negative Contractions There are two ways of forming contractions of To Be in negative sentences. One is with a contraction of the subject and the verb (e.g. I am = I'm) OR a contraction of the verb and not (e.g. are not = aren't) I'm not from Spain. --- --------------* You're not Australian. OR You aren't Australian. He's not thirty years old. OR He isn't thirty years old. She's not a secretary. OR She isn't a secretary. It's not a small cat. OR It isn't a small cat. We're not stupid. OR We aren't stupid. You're not teachers. OR You aren't teachers. They're not single. OR They aren't single. * Notice that the only possible contraction for I am not is I'm not. Exercise: Exercise 1: Verb TO BE negative

WH-QUESTIONS WITH BE

Wh- questions (open questions)

Essentially, there are two types of questions: Yes / No questions and Wh– questions. Wh– questions are so called because with the exception of the question word how, all the question words begin with the letters Wh. They are also called open questions because the number of possible responses is limitless. This means they must be answered with more information than just a simple “yes” or “no.”

Who is used to obtain information about a person or people.

question		response
Who is at the door?		Tom is at the door.

What is used to request information about somebody or something.

question		response
What is this?		This is a bird.

When is used to obtain information about the time period in which an action occurs.

question		response
When is the party?		It's in March.

Where is used to obtain information about the location of a person or thing.

question		response
Where are you from?		I am from Dominican Republic.

How is used to obtain information about the way something happens, or the manner or way somebody behaves or does something.

question		response
How is your mother?		She is fine, thanks.

Exercise:

Exercise 1: Wh- questions and to be