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Do you find it difficult to ask questions in English?
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That may be because there is something that most teachers don't teach you and most books don't show you.
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And in this lesson, I'm going to explain to you what
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that technique is so that you will be able to frame the right type of questions at the right time.
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So, let's get started.
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So, in order to understand questions, first we have to understand sentences.
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Alright?
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So, let's look at these three sample sentences that I've written on the board.
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So, what happens in an English sentence?
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An English sentence follows this order.
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Subject, verb, object.
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Okay?
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The subject does the action, the verb is the action itself, and the object receives the action.
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Okay, that's what we say.
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For example, John orders pizza, right?
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Maria manages projects.
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ABC sells computers.
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All right, so these were the subject, these were the verb, this is the object.
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Now, what's the issue here?
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The point is that in most books and probably in all the grammar that you've been studying, you only learn one way of asking questions.
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But in real life, there are two different ways.
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And what's the difference?
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The difference is, are you asking about the subject or are you asking about the object?
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Most times you are taught how to frame a question in English based on asking about the object.
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So, you may be familiar with these kind of questions.
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Let's look at these questions.
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What does John order?
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Pizza.
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So, you are usually taught that in the present simple tense, which is what this is,
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you have to add the word does when you have a question or do, right?
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But that is only when we're asking about the object.
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Let's look at some more examples.
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What does Maria manage?
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Projects.
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These questions are correct.
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They're all asking about what?
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About the object, right?
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Or what does ABC sell?
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computers all right so that's fine those are probably the types of questions you've been learning
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and you've been practicing
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and they are perfectly correct however they're not the only kind
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of questions we ask sometimes we want to know about the subject
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so how do you form that question that's what i'm going to show you right now
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so here's the first one about john who orders pizza
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we're asking about the subject what's the answer to that question who orders pizza john
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the second question the second sentence who manages projects maria who sells computers A, B, C.
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What?
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No do, no does?
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No. No do, no does.
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All right?
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Why?
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Because we're asking about the subject here.
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And we use the do, does, and other forms, which I'll show you when we're asking about the object.
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And most of the time, this is what students master, which is great, you need to know this.
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But they never learn this, but people are using that around them, so they get confused.
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So, not you, not anymore.
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Now you know that, oh yeah, I hear that a lot.
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Now you know how to structure it based on what information you want to know.
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So, in order for you to know that, think about, am I asking about the subject, who does the action, or am I asking about the object?
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What receives the action?
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Okay?
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So, this was in the present simple tense.
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I'll show you how the same principle, the same habit will work for you in the past tense and in the future tense.
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Now let's look at the past simple tense.
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The same sentences, but changed to the past.
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John ordered pizza.
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Maria managed projects.
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ABC sold computers.
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Right?
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Same structure, Subject, verb, object.
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So if you want to ask about the subject, what do you ask?
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You say, who ordered pizza?
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John. Who managed projects?
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Maria. Who sold computers?
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ABC.
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And why did we ask the questions like that?
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Remember?
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Because we're asking about the subject.
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So we didn't need any extra words.
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We just asked directly who ordered, who managed, who sold.
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All right?
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Great.
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Of course, if you're asking about the object, then we have to add the word did into our question in the past simple tense.
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What did John order?
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Pizza.
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What did Maria manage?
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What did ABC sell?
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Computers.
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Now, it doesn't have to be what.
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It could be that Maria managed the team.
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Then we would ask, who did Maria manage?
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Who did Maria manage?
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The team.
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Alright?
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So, this first word will depend a little bit on what the object is.
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the object refers to people then you may have to ask a different use a different question word here
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but the structure will say the same if you're asking about the object
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and the structure remains the same
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if you're asking about the subject now let's look at the
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future tense the same basic structure now with the future john will order pizza maria will manage projects ABC will sell computers.
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Right?
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Subject, verb, object.
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Basic structure.
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So, if I want to know about the subject, I ask, who will order pizza?
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John.
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Who will manage projects?
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Maria.
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Who will sell computers?
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ABC.
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Right?
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That's when we were asking about the subject.
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And if we need to ask about the object, then we say, What will John order?
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Pizza.
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What will Maria manage?
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Projects.
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Or what will ABC sell?
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Computers.
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Got it?
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This is a huge change from what you might be used to when you're asking questions.
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You probably do know this part about asking about the object,
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but you may not have ever realized or been taught that there is this whole other way of asking questions, which is not difficult.
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As you saw, it's really easier in many ways.
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All right?
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So, the same thing will happen.
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We're going to stop here.
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But the same thing happens when you use other more advanced tenses.
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For example, if you used present perfect and you said, John has ordered pizza, then you would ask, who has ordered pizza?
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John.
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What has John ordered?
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Pizza.
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And so on.
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You could do it with the present perfect, the past perfect, and all of those tenses.
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And all of the tenses.
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Okay?
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Not just the ones I've shown you, but this explains the principle.
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And I hope after this, and I'm sure after this, the whole way you think about English questions
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and the way you use them will be so much stronger and so much more correct.
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All right?
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So, after this, if you like, please go to our website at www.engvid.com, do the quiz on this,
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really master these principles, and then you can go forward into much better, stronger, more confident English.
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And don't forget to subscribe.
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Thanks for watching.
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Bye for now.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “The Secret to Asking English Questions”. Las palabras que más se repiten: asking, object, subject, pizza, maria. Este vídeo tiene 143 frases y 1143 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 9:01. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 127 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 90 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir. 49 de sus 143 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 13 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| pizza sustantivo | /ˈpi.tsə/ | pizza |
| tense sustantivo | /tɛns/ | tiempo |
| verb sustantivo | /vɝb/ | verbo |
| principle sustantivo | /ˈpɹɪn.sɪ.pəl/ | principio |
| confused adjetivo | /kənˈfjuːzd/ | confundido |
| lesson sustantivo | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | lección |
| technique sustantivo | /tɛkˈniːk/ | técnica |
| refer verbo | /ɹɪˈfɜː/ | referir, remitir |
| habit sustantivo | /ˈhæb.ɪt/ | costumbre, hábito |
| depend verbo | /dɪˈpɛnd/ | depender/pender (de), ser dependiente (de) |
| grammar sustantivo | /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/ | gramática |
| subscribe verbo | /səbˈskɹaɪb/ | suscribirse, subscribirse |
| quiz sustantivo | /kwɪz/ | prueba, cuestionario |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- Let's look at these questions.
- Let's look at some more examples.
- They're all asking about what?
- Because we're asking about the subject here.
- You say, who ordered pizza?
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — una acción que empezó antes y continúa | you've been studying · you've been learning · you've been practicing |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | I've written · has ordered · I've shown |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | are taught · are usually taught · been taught |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | tense, which is · master, which is · questions, which is |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 27 contracciones y formas reducidas, como we're, you're, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: confused /kənˈfjuːzd/, quiz /kwɪz/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como pizza, tense, verb.
¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.