Answering Questions About What You Read

🎯 What You'll Learn

You will practise answering who, what, where, when, and why questions about a passage.

🌟 Let's Start

When you read, you can use the question words you learned in grammar — who, what, where, when, and why — to check your understanding. Let us read a passage and answer all kinds of questions.

📚 Read This Passage

Passage: Tunde's Saturday

On Saturday morning, Tunde woke up early. He helped his mother sweep the compound. Then he had breakfast — bread and tea. After breakfast, Tunde went to the football field with his friends. They played football for two hours. Tunde scored three goals! In the afternoon, Tunde went to the market with his father to buy vegetables. They got tomatoes, onions, and peppers. In the evening, Tunde did his homework and then watched a film on TV. It was a great day!

🎮 Let's Practice

1. Who is the passage about?
2. What did Tunde eat for breakfast?
3. Where did Tunde play football?
4. When did Tunde go to the market?
5. Why do you think Tunde said it was a great day?

Click to see answers

1. The passage is about Tunde.
2. Tunde ate bread and tea for breakfast.
3. Tunde played football at the football field.
4. Tunde went to the market in the afternoon.
5. Tunde had a great day because he played football, scored goals, went to the market with his father, and watched a film — he had lots of fun!

💡 Remember

Use question words to check your understanding: Who is it about? What happened? Where did it happen? When did it happen? Why did it happen? You can answer all of these by reading carefully!