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  • Hi, everyone. I'm Alex.

  • Thanks for clicking, and welcome to this lesson on "Common 'Where' Questions".

  • So, in this lesson, I'm going to give you a lot of different, you know,

  • questions, obviously, that we ask with the word "where". And specifically, I want you

  • to use this lesson for listening practice and fluency practice. So, yes, you know, we

  • will look at the structure and the meaning of the questions, but we'll also be looking

  • at saying the questions quickly so that you can identify them if you hear them, or you

  • will know how to say them quickly yourself, because some of them, you can cut words out,

  • or when you say it quickly, it sounds a little bit differently than if you just

  • cut word, word, word, word.

  • So let's look at from the top, very common question if you're, you know, meeting someone

  • or talking to someone at work or at school that's new and you don't know, or maybe you're

  • meeting somebody at a party at your family's house or your friend's house, and you're curious

  • about their origin, you can say:

  • "Hey. Where were you born?" Right?

  • "Where were you born?"

  • So you can say: "Oh, I was born in Canada.",

  • "I was born in Mexico.",

  • "I was born in Palestine."

  • Like: "Where were you born?"

  • Again, this is slightly different from the question of:

  • "Where are you from?" Because, again: "Where were you born?" you can specifically mention,

  • you know, the hospital that you were born, but:

  • "Where are you from?" like, you know:

  • "Which country? Which area?"

  • So, for example, me, I am from Poland. I live in Canada, but originally

  • I'm from Poland, I can say.

  • So: "Hey. Where did you grow up?"

  • This is really good because "grow up" means, you know:

  • Where did you have, kind of, your childhood, growing into a teenager experience? So, essentially,

  • from the ages of... I guess it varies, depending on who you talk to, but kind of the memories

  • you have as a child, probably from the age of 6 until you were like 14 to 16 years old

  • - that 10-year period.

  • -"Where did you grow up?"

  • -"Oh, I grew up in Michigan." or

  • "Oh, I grew up in Paris."

  • If you're so lucky to grow up in Paris, that's pretty cool.

  • So, a very common question:

  • "Hey. Where do you work? Where do you work?" Right? Like, so:

  • "I know your job, but where do you work?"

  • "Where do you go to school?" Right?

  • "Where do you work?" or

  • "Where do you go to school?"

  • Very common question.

  • And, also, if you're making plans for the weekend, and maybe you're texting your friends

  • or you're calling your friends. Let me get out my phone, here. And if you're calling

  • your friend and you're making plans for tomorrow, you can say:

  • "Yeah. Where do you want to go? Where do you want to go? Do you want to see a movie, or do you want to go out to eat?

  • Hey. Where do you want to eat? Do you want to eat at the pizza place, or do you want

  • to eat at the Italian restaurant? Where do you want to meet up?" So, "to meet up" means

  • to meet, essentially. This is a phrasal verb that just means "to meet". Where do you want

  • to see each other? Again, very common.

  • "Where do you want to meet up? Where do you want to go? Where do you want to eat? What do you want to do?" Right?

  • So: "Where are you going? Hey. Where are you going?" "Where are you?" If you're looking

  • for someone and you're talking to them on the phone, and you're at a party or you're

  • at a big concert, and you can ask them: "Hey. Where are you?" Right? "Where are you now?"

  • Or even if you want to know... You want to meet with them later, right? And you can say:

  • "Where are you? Like, are you at your parents' house? Are you at school? Are you at the library?

  • Where are you now?"

  • And finally: "Hey. Where is it?" So this can be anything. Right? "Where is the pool? Where

  • is the library? Where is the movie theatre?"

  • Okay, now, what we're going to do is I'm just going to quickly use this as a pronunciation

  • activity for you guys so you can practice your fluency. Because you might say:

  • "Yes, yes, Alex, I know these questions. These are simple questions",

  • some of them, maybe all of them to you.

  • But even then, it's another thing to be able to identify them quickly

  • in a conversation, and another thing, to be able to produce them in a fluent way and ask

  • them in a smooth way.

  • So, first, I'm just going to read it quickly and I'm going to ask you to please repeat

  • it with me. Okay? Just let me put my phone down, here. Okay. So, repeat after me, and

  • try and say it as quickly as I'm saying it as well.

  • "Where were you born?"

  • Good.

  • "Hey. Where you from?"

  • Now, here, you might be thinking:

  • "Whoa. What did you just say?"

  • because I just said... Did I say "Where are you from?"

  • or did I say "Where you from?"

  • So, in this common question: "Where are you from?"

  • some people completely cut the "are", and say:

  • "Hey. Where you from? Where you from?"

  • And this could also be because they are contracting "where"

  • and "are" together, saying "where're", "where're", that's particularly challenging. So try and

  • repeat after me. Just say:

  • "Hey. Where you from?"

  • Perfect.

  • "Where did you grow up?"

  • Okay. Now say it like this:

  • "Where'd you grow up?

  • Where'd you grow up?"

  • What you notice that I did here is I didn't say:

  • "Where did", I said: "Where'dj".

  • So, a very common thing that native speakers of English do is when they have the verb "did"

  • with a "wh" question word... And in this case, we're just going to talk about where, they

  • crunch it together, so it doesn't become "where did", but "where'dj", like a "j" sound almost.

  • Okay? So one more time:

  • "Where'dj you grow up?"

  • Good.

  • Next: "Where do you work?"

  • Okay, let's say it a little faster.

  • "Hey. Where do ya work?"

  • Okay. And here, you noticed that I did the very American thing of not saying "you", but

  • saying "ya", so you can say:

  • "Where do ya...?" Right? "Where do ya work?" or "Where do you work?"

  • Next: "Where do you go to school?"

  • Okay. One more time.

  • "Hey. Where do you go to school?"

  • That's very difficult. "Where-do-you-go-to-school?"

  • It's one smooth line, all right? Next:

  • "Where do you want to go?

  • Where do you wanna eat?

  • Where do you want to meet up?"

  • And again, here, what I was doing: "Where do you want",

  • if you have "want" plus the verb, again, an

  • infinitive: "Where do you wanna?" Right?

  • Instead of: "Where do you want to",

  • you can say: "Where do you wanna...? Where do you wanna eat?

  • Where do you wanna go? Where do you wanna meet up?"

  • Next, and try and repeat after me:

  • "Where're you going?"

  • Okay, and again, you notice I did it very quickly with:

  • "Where're", "Where are", "Where're". "Where're you going?" You

  • can also say: "Where you going?" Same like:

  • "Where are you from?", "Where you from?"

  • Very quickly, some people might say:

  • "Where you going? Where you going?"

  • Okay, two more. We'll do these ones quickly. Listen and repeat after me.

  • "Where are you?"

  • Okay. And:

  • "Where is it?"

  • Perfect.

  • Now, what I'm going to do, guys, for the quiz this time, I'm specifically just going to

  • ask you to identify which question form is correct. So, obviously, it's important to

  • know how to ask these questions, to pronounce them correctly, but it's also important...

  • The reverse is to recognize the correct structure when you see it. So not, for example, not:

  • "Where do you from?" or "Where from you are?", but:

  • "Where are you from?" Okay? So on the

  • quiz this week, all I want you to do is identify the correct question structure, and then watch

  • this video again, and repeat after me. Practice your fluency. Practice hearing the questions

  • correctly. Okay?

  • So, again, as always, you can check out the quiz on www.engvid.com.

  • And don't forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel.

  • See you later.

Hi, everyone. I'm Alex.

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