Photocopiable Cambridge University Press T-228

Language summary
unit
2
Grammar
Wh- questions; plural subject pronouns
Wh- questions Plural subject pronouns
Where are you and Yoshi from?
What city are Luis and Maria from?
What city are you from?
Who are they?
How old are they?
Were from Japan.
Theyre from Manaus.
Were from Tokyo.
Theyre my parents.
Theyre 60 and 63.
In questions with who and how old with singular subject pronouns, use
the same form: Who / How old + is / am / are + subject pronoun
Remember that you can use the contractions were and theyre in
statements.
Yes / no questions with be
Yes / no questions Short answers
Affirmative
Short answers
Negative
Are
Are
you
they
Japanese?
Brazilian?
Yes,
Yes,
we
they
are.
are.
No,
No,
we
they
arent.
arent.
In affirmative short answers use the full forms above, NOT contractions:
Yes, theyre. / Yes, were.
Remember that you can use the contraction re not in short negative
answers: No, were not. / No, theyre not.
Vocabulary
Nationalities
American
Australian
Brazilian
British
Canadian
Chilean
Chinese
Colombian
Ecuadorian
Greek
Japanese
Mexican
Peruvian
Saudi
South Korean
Spanish
Thai
Turkish
Family
brother
children
daughter
father
grandfather
grandmother
grandparents
husband
kids
mother
parents
sister
son
wife
Numbers 0101
0 zero
1 one
2 two
3 three
4 four
5 five
6 six
7 seven
8 eight
9 nine
10 ten
11 eleven
12 twelve
13 thirteen
14 fourteen
15 fifteen
16 sixteen
17 seventeen
18 eighteen
19 nineteen
20 twenty
21 twenty-one
30 thirty
40 forty
50 fifty
60 sixty
70 seventy
80 eighty
90 ninety
100 one hundred
101 one hundred
(and) one
Functions
Asking for someones phone
number
Whats your phone number?
Whats your number?
Asking for someones email
Whats your email address?
Whats your email?
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