Hi everyone I am Ria and today we are going to talk about our favorite favorite family.
No, no, no we are not going to talk about the Simpsons. Why did you think we are going
to talk about a Hollywood family? Ahhh I’m going to talk about a much more interesting
family. Yes the WH family, where did your enthusiasm go? Come on the lesson is going
to be fun. Come on lets concentrate. Today we are gonna talk about the WH family. The
words that are in the WH family Or question words, now these are very simple words and
today we are going to learn as to how we will use these words and what are the probable answers to it.
First one, who? If you are going to ask somebody a question using the
word who it means, you want to know about a person. So if you ask a question like, who
is the captain or who is the captain of the volley ball team? Yeah that’s right, sorry.
Who is the captain of the volley ball team? So you want to know, who is the captain of
the volley ball team? You might say, ummm, ummm actually, Mam Mary is the captain of
the volley ball team. Do you want me to call her? She might be just practicing. Mary, Mary
right, so Mary is the answer that I’m looking for, if I ask a question regarding who? I
want to know, who that person is? So in this case Mary is the answer. Going on to the second
question. Who is that weird guy standing over the counter? Now if you are just standing,
specially us girls. We are standing and right there at the counter, there’s a guy, whose
just you know, feeling so cool and ogling. So if somebody’s actually ogling at you
from the counter, what are you going to say? What is the question that your friend is going
to ask you? She’s going to ask you, who is that weird guy by the counter? What is
your answer going to be? Oh come on that is just Ben, yeah he’s a weirdo, he likes ogling
at girls. So Ben, ben is the answer that you’re looking for, if you ask that question, who’s
that weird guy by the counter? So it’s going to be Ben, you want to know the answer, which
is Ben, ben is the name of the person. So if you’re going to ask about a question
regarding who? The answer is going to be the name of a person. The identity of a person,
so hey ben come on, no more ogling, we are not really interested. Going on to the next
set of questions, Where? If you ask a question regarding where? That means you want to know
the location. The location or the place. If you ask a question like, where’s the bank?
That means somebody wants to know, where is the bank actually located? The place where
the bank is, so I might say, the bank is in Churchgate. Yes so Churchgate is the answer
or it answers the question, sorry about that, it answers the question where? So if I want
to know, where the bank is? Churchgate is where, it is been located. So now I know the
answer is Churchgate. We go on to the second one, where are my glasses? Have you seen my
glasses? Usually my mom, she comes around and she you know, shell be just looking at
me and saying, I don’t know where did I keep my glasses? Do you know where my glasses
are? The only thing I say is Maa, silly they are on your head. All this time, she would
be carrying it on her head and you know asking everyone out there, where her glasses are?
So in this case her head is the location or the place, where the glasses can be found.
So the answer to this question is head. So if you’re asking a question regarding where?
That means you want to know, where something is located or their location or the place.
Let’s go on to the third one, when? If you ask a question regarding, when? That means
you want to know about the time, like for example, when is your flight? If someone asks
you, you’re actually rushing to the airport and somebody asks you, so when is your flight?
Are you late? So you might say, no, no, I’m just rushing maybe because of the traffic
that I’m kind of going you know early, but my flight is at 5 pm or my flight is at 5
o’clock , right now it’s just 2, so I’ve got three hours to spare. So 5 o’clock,
5o’clock answers, yeah that’s right 5o’clock answers the question of when? If somebody
asks you, when is your flight? That means the time; okay the time the flight, the plane
is going to embark on its journey. When is your flight? The answer is 5 o’clock. Looking
at the second example, when are we going to finish? Yes I know, this might be going on
in your head. So you will say, Oh mam when are we going to, when are we going to finish?
Well if we are going to finish, it’s going to be soon. So right now you better focus.
So my answer to that question of yours is soon. Right students, soon we will finish
the lesson, but right now focus, when are we going to finish, finish this video? It’s
going to be soon. Let’s look at the next WH family, the next word which is, why? If
I’m going to ask somebody a question regarding, why? I really want to know the reason behind
something. So if I ask a question like, why is he loud? Somebody’s screaming at the
top of his voice and you just ask your friend, why is he loud? Well the answer could be,
because he thinks, the people around him are actually deaf. That’s why he’s screaming
at the top of his lungs, yes that is the reason. This is the reason that I can come up with,
because the people around him are deaf. That answers the question of, why is he loud? If
I ask a question like, why won’t you listen to me? Yes I know sometimes I have this you
know, the small kids coming up to me and they wouldn’t be listening, not only small kids,
the new teenagers sometimes, you know, you won’t be listening. Sometimes mums usually
ask, not really mums, sometimes teachers kind of ask you, you know, why won’t you listen
to me? And if it is a teenager then you would say, because you’re not my mom, for that
matter I don’t even listen to her. That’s usually the kind of answers I usually get,
yes why won’t you listen to me, so because you are not my mother. Is that an appropriate
answer by a teenager. So because you are not my mother, that answers the question of Why?
So again just to reiterate. Who? If you’re asking a question about who? That means you
are asking about, who that person is, identity of the person, but if you’re asking a question
about where? That means you want to know about the place. When? About the time, about the
time something is happening and why want to know the reason. I hope that clears out some
of your doubts. So we have looked at four words from the WH family, let’s look at
more, what? So if you are asking a question regarding what? The answer should be a very
specific information. So please gather that, so if you’re going to ask a question like,
what is your name? So what is your name? I require a specific information like for example,
Again there’s a guy, whose standing and all of a sudden, he just looks at you and
says, what is your name you pretty, pretty, pretty girl? So maybe you know, you might
be interested, so you might say, Ahh my name is Juliet or maybe if you’re not interested,
you might say, it’s none of your business. So there are two types of answers, for example
Juliet. Now that answers a question of what is your name? It’s a specific information
or the other case, its none of your business. The second question, what is the price of
an Apple watch? That’s new in the market. What is the price of an Apple watch? So last
time you checked up the price right, because on the next video I would require to send
it off. So what’s the price of an Apple watch? It might be a few thousand bucks, probably
a thousand bucks. So the answer would be one thousand, let’s say a denomination dollars.
One thousand dollars, so that is the specific information of the specific answer that I
require for this question. So if I’m asking a question about, what’s the price? What
I wanted to know is the specific price. The specific information regarding this question.
Now let’s move on to, which? If you ask a question regarding which, that means you
need to know or you want to know a choice or you’re given two elements and you have
to make a choice between them, what you prefer? For example, which if like two friends, yes
I have a friend of mine and we are going to the restaurants and he asks me, so which drink
did you order? So he might say, Rum or Vodka. He actually wants to know, what would I prefer?
Now you’re talking, right? It is rum or its vodka, but neither, we are not talking
about rum or vodka, but actually we are talking about probably a soda. So if there is probably,
you know, you know where the choice is between soda and water, maybe I’ll require soda.
So that answers the question, which drink did you order? So from two of your choices,
I ordered soda, no rum or vodka this time. Going to the second one, which color iPhone
would you buy? Now there are various colors like matt gold and silver and probably I think
its space grey. Yes, oh lovely, lovely iPhones. Which color iPhone would you buy? Somebody’s
going to gift me, I definitely you know require a matt gold, yeah. Well, that is my preference,
my choice of iPhone, so I’ll say, I would say matt gold. That’s amazing, right. So
which color iPhone would you buy? For me, I would say, I prefer a matt gold. Yes, maybe
next video. Let’s recap what we learnt so far, what , specific information, if you’re
asking a question regarding what? That means you want to know a specific information. And
if youre asking a question regarding which? That means you’ve got a few options and
you have to make a choice, which one do you prefer? Got it? So we have looked at five
members of the WH family. Let’s look at the last one, it is How? If you ask a question
using the word how? You actually want to know the manner or the method of doing something.
Let’s look at divisions of how we can use the word how? For example, how many? If you
ask a question starting with how many? That means you want to know about the quantity
of something, but do remember that the quantity is actually countable. We actually want to
know about the quantity that is countable. Let’s look at this question, how many cubes
of sugar do you want in your coffee? If I ask that question to you, how much, sorry,
how many cubes of sugar do you want in your coffee? You would say, two cubes please, so
two cubes, now cubes you can count right? Of sugar you can count, so two cubes of, two
cubes of sugar I would need in my coffee. So that answers the question of how many?
How many cubes would you like , you answer by saying, two cubes. That answers this question
because it is countable. Whereas looking at the second example, about how much? It also
talks about the quantity, but it is actually uncountable. Like for example, how much sugar
do you want in your coffee? If I ask you that question, how much sugar do you want in your
coffee? Ahh the other person is not going to say, Mam I would like five thousand grains
of sugar. Obviously nobody’s going to sit and count all the grains. It’s uncountable,
so you might say probably very little sugar in my coffee please or probably one teaspoon
of sugar or two teaspoons of sugar. Because in this case, its grains of sugar, you won’t
be counting it. So it’s very little sugar please, sometimes you just say a teaspoon
would do. Going on to how often? If you ask a question that starts with how often? That
means you want to know about the frequency of something happening. In this case, well
this is also a question regarding coffee, I love coffee. But apart from this if you
have a question, like how often? How often are the flights from Bangkok to Sydney? There
might be probably five flights per day. That’s their frequency. The number of flights that
you want to know that flies from Bangkok to Sydney. In this case, how often do you drink
coffee? I love coffee, yes five times a day. Definitely for sure, I love coffee. So how
often do you drink coffee? Five times, this shows the frequency of or the time, how many
time do I take coffee. Sorry about that. Going on to the last one, how far? If I use the
word far, with how? I want to know, the distance. I’m sure you must be using these words,
like how far? How far is the coffee shop from your house? Yes definitely I want to know,
how far is the coffee shop from your house? So you want to cover the distance, probably
its just two streets away, two streets away, nowadays we have lot of coffee shops around
right? People usually hang out at coffee shop. So two streets away, how far is the coffee
shop from your house? Or you might say how far is your work place from your home? So
you might say that, it is probably four miles away. Four miles be how far or the distance
that is covered from your office to your home. This covers the question of How? Let’s just
look at it one more time. How many that means the quantity or countable ensure that you
know this, if you’re asking a question regarding how many means that you want to know about
the quantity, but it has to be countable. Whereas if you’re looking about a question
how much? It’s also about quantity, but it has to be uncountable. The third, how often?
If you’re asking a question regarding or if you framing a question with how often?
That means the frequency, how many times it’s happening? And the forth one, how far? The
distance being counted. I hope you liked today’s lesson, I absolutely enjoyed teaching it.
So till next time Bye bye.