Tag Questions

Unit 2. Copycat
Animals

Tag Questions

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Objective

Students will check understanding
by using tag questions.

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Tag Questions

✔ Tag questions are short questions that we
place at the end of a sentence. 

✔ Tag questions are used to:
1. confirm or check information
2. ask for agreement
3. check whether something is true.

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Tag Questions

✔ Positive statements get negative question
tags Negative statements get positive
question tags .

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Tag Questions: Positive Statements

1. This Scarlet Macaw is beautiful, isn’t it?
2. Black widow spiders are venomous, aren’t they?
3. The owl butterfly confuses its predators, doesn’t it?
4. Bats hang upside down, don’t they?

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Tag Questions: Positive Statements

1. That blowfish was poisonous, wasn’t it?
2. The kittens were in the basket, weren’t they?
3. The mongoose avoided the cobra’s bite, didn’t it?

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Tag Questions: Negative Statements

1. This butterfly isn’t monarch butterfly, is it?
2. Koalas aren’t bears, are they?
3. Horses don’t have stripes, do they?
4. A great white shark doesn’t stop swimming, does it?

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Tag Questions: Negative Statements

1. The bee didn’t sting you, did it?
2. That puppy wasn’t aggressive, was it?
3. The tigers weren’t hiding in the tall grass, were

they?

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Student’s Book page 31

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