Questions and question tags worksheets
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Questions & question tags worksheets
108 printable worksheets with answer keys; the 24 most used, easiest level first.
Questions & question tags lessons
4 ready lessons for the four skills: teach on the board, set online or print.
Warm-ups and fillers
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- Filler · C2Give scenarios: “A fire station burns down.” “It rains on your wedding day.” “A traffic warden gets a parking ticket.” Students debate: irony, bad luck, or coincidence?
About Questions & question tags
English questions usually need an auxiliary verb before the subject: Where do you live? Has she finished? Can you swim? If there is no other auxiliary, we add do, does or did. Subject questions are the exception: when who or what is the subject, there is no do (Who called you?). Question tags reverse the polarity of the sentence to check or confirm: It's cold, isn't it? You haven't met Jo, have you?
Yes/no and wh- questions are taught from Kids and A1 level, subject and object questions, indirect questions and tags around B1–B2, and finer points such as negative questions at C1–C2. Common errors include missing auxiliaries (*Where you live?), *Who did call you?, the wrong auxiliary in tags, and inversion in indirect questions.
This page collects printable question worksheets with answer keys, which print as PDFs or can be solved online through a class link.
Teaching tips: Questions & question tags
- Use a word-order grid (question word – auxiliary – subject – main verb) for building and checking questions.
- Give jumbled questions to reorder, then have learners use the corrected questions to interview each other.
- Contrast Who likes Tom? (subject question) with Who does Tom like? (object question) using arrows between people.
- Practice tag intonation: falling when you expect agreement, rising when you are genuinely asking.
- Watch for tags that ignore the auxiliary: She likes tea, doesn't she? (not *isn't she?).
Questions teachers ask
What's the difference between subject and object questions?
In a subject question the question word is the subject, so we keep statement word order and use no do: What happened? In an object question we need an auxiliary: What did you see?
How are question tags formed?
Use the auxiliary from the main clause (or do, does or did if there isn't one) and a subject pronoun, with opposite polarity: You're coming, aren't you? He didn't go, did he? Note the irregular I'm late, aren't I?
Why don't indirect questions invert?
The question is embedded in a statement or a polite framing question, so it uses statement word order: Do you know what time it is? (not *what time is it).