Question types and auxiliary verbs

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hi i'm vanessa from speak english with

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vanessa calm how can you ask questions

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in English let's talk about it today

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you're gonna dip your toe in the water

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of questions so that you can have

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amazing conversations in English we can

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imagine that you're walking beside a

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swimming pool and you dip or put your

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toe in the water just to test the

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temperature oh it's cold that's exactly

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what we're gonna do today with questions

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so you're gonna briefly learn the four

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most common ways to create beautiful

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questions in English and at the end of

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this lesson I want to challenge you to

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write a comment using all four question

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forms so listen carefully

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why should you learn how to ask

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questions well I've said many times in

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the past including this video about how

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to stop being shy in English that when

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you ask questions it takes off the

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pressure from you because you're asking

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a question and the other person is

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speaking so that you can take a moment

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to take a breath and you can also learn

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more about the other person let's start

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with the simple sentence it's the fall

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season right now and because I live in

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the mountains