Name: WH Questions in English: The most common WHERE Questions
Uploaded: 2016-10-23T10:26:39.000Z
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Gerund

Thanks for clicking, and welcome to this lesson on "Common 'Where' Questions".

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So, in this lesson, I'm going to give you a lot of different, you know,

questions, obviously, that we ask with the word "where". And specifically, I want you

to use this lesson for listening practice and fluency practice. So, yes, you know, we

will look at the structure and the meaning of the questions, but we'll also be looking

at saying the questions quickly so that you can identify them if you hear them, or you

will know how to say them quickly yourself, because some of them, you can cut words out,

or when you say it quickly, it sounds a little bit differently than if you just

So let's look at from the top, very common question if you're, you know, meeting someone

or talking to someone at work or at school that's new and you don't know, or maybe you're

meeting somebody at a party at your family's house or your friend's house, and you're curious

So you can say: "Oh, I was born in Canada.",

Again, this is slightly different from the question of:

"Where are you from?" Because, again: "Where were you born?" you can specifically mention,

you know, the hospital that you were born, but:

So, for example, me, I am from Poland. I live in Canada, but originally

This is really good because "grow up" means, you know:

Where did you have, kind of, your childhood, growing into a teenager experience? So, essentially,

from the ages of... I guess it varies, depending on who you talk to, but kind of the memories

you have as a child, probably from the age of 6 until you were like 14 to 16 years old

If you're so lucky to grow up in Paris, that's pretty cool.

"Hey. Where do you work? Where do you work?" Right? Like, so:

"I know your job, but where do you work?"

And, also, if you're making plans for the weekend, and maybe you're texting your friends

or you're calling your friends. Let me get out my phone, here. And if you're calling

your friend and you're making plans for tomorrow, you can say:

"Yeah. Where do you want to go? Where do you want to go? Do you want to see a movie, or do you want to go out to eat?

Hey. Where do you want to eat? Do you want to eat at the pizza place, or do you want

to eat at the Italian restaurant? Where do you want to meet up?" So, "to meet up" means

to meet, essentially. This is a phrasal verb that just means "to meet". Where do you want

"Where do you want to meet up? Where do you want to go? Where do you want to eat? What do you want to do?" Right?

So: "Where are you going? Hey. Where are you going?" "Where are you?" If you're looking

for someone and you're talking to them on the phone, and you're at a party or you're

at a big concert, and you can ask them: "Hey. Where are you?" Right? "Where are you now?"

Or even if you want to know... You want to meet with them later, right? And you can say:

"Where are you? Like, are you at your parents' house? Are you at school? Are you at the library?

And finally: "Hey. Where is it?" So this can be anything. Right? "Where is the pool? Where

is the library? Where is the movie theatre?"

Okay, now, what we're going to do is I'm just going to quickly use this as a pronunciation

activity for you guys so you can practice your fluency. Because you might say:

"Yes, yes, Alex, I know these questions. These are simple questions",

But even then, it's another thing to be able to identify them quickly

in a conversation, and another thing, to be able to produce them in a fluent way and ask

So, first, I'm just going to read it quickly and I'm going to ask you to please repeat

it with me. Okay? Just let me put my phone down, here. Okay. So, repeat after me, and

try and say it as quickly as I'm saying it as well.

because I just said... Did I say "Where are you from?"

So, in this common question: "Where are you from?"

some people completely cut the "are", and say:

And this could also be because they are contracting "where"

and "are" together, saying "where're", "where're", that's particularly challenging. So try and

What you notice that I did here is I didn't say:

So, a very common thing that native speakers of English do is when they have the verb "did"

with a "wh" question word... And in this case, we're just going to talk about where, they

crunch it together, so it doesn't become "where did", but "where'dj", like a "j" sound almost.