2 – Me voici!
Grammaire: Les questions “oui/non”
“Yes/non” questions
1. Questions with intonation
One of the easiest ways to ask a question that may be answered by yes/no is to raise the pitch of your voice at the end of a statement. In a declarative statement, the pitch normally falls. Listen to the following dialogue and pay close attention to the intonation.
| Tex: Trey, tu aimes la philosophie? | Tex: Trey, do you like philosophy? |
2. Questions using ‘est-ce que … ?’
Another way to ask a yes/no question is to place est-ce que before a statement. Note that que becomes est-ce qu’ before a vowel.
| Trey: Et toi, Tex, est-ce que tu aimes les films? | Trey: And you, Tex, do you like films? | |
| Tex: Bien sûr, j’adore les films. | Tex: Of course, I adore films. | |
| Trey: Est-ce que tu connais Yoda? | Trey: Do you know Yoda? |
3. Questions using ‘n’est-ce pas?’
n’est-ce pas? is added to the end of a yes/no question when the speaker expects an affirmative response.
| Trey: Tu connais ‘La guerre des étoiles,’ n’est-ce pas? Yoda, c’est le petit sage. | Trey: You know ‘Star Wars,’ don’t you? Yoda is the little wise man. |
4. Focus on…
pronunciation:
Answer the following questions to focus on pronunciation specificities:
