In this exercise you have to make questions about the following activities by adding the French phrase for asking questions: *Est-ce que*.

Attention: *Est-ce que* is simply the inversion of: *C’est que* so there’s only an hyphen in-between the subject *ce* and the verb *est* and not in-between the *que*!*

Est-ce que tu manges au café?

Pay attention that the *que* elides when it stands before the word that stars with a vowel, for ex: *Est-ce qu’il nage ou il fait du sport?*

In this case, you have to create questions with TU, so there’s no elision.

Est-ce que tu nages ou tu fais du sport?

Same like the previous one.

There are three ways to ask questions in French:
For ex.: Do you like swimming?

1. **Inversion** (You change the word order, the verb is put BEFORE the subject. In the normal word order, the subject goes BEFORE the verb!): *Aimez-vous nager*?

2. **Est-ce que** (The word order stays the same as in an ordinary sentence, *est-ce que* comes before the subject, and the verb comes after the subject: (Est-ce que + subject + verb)
*Est-ce que vous aimez nager?*

3. **Intonation** (by making your voice go up at the end of the sentence)
*Vous aimez nager?*

Est-ce que tu discutes avec des amis?

Same like the previous exercise:

The other two ways would be:

Dessines-tu bien? – Inversion

Tu dessines bien? – Intonation

What are the differences between the three?
*Est-ce que* – is a slightly informal construction. The more formal or polite way to ask questions would be with *inversion*, and using the *rising intonation* is the most informal way of asking questions.

Est-ce que tu dessines bien?

Same like the previous.

Tu surfes sur Internet. – affirmative
Tu surfes sur Internet? – interrogative, intonation
Surfes-tu sur Internet? – Interrogative, inversion

And for this case: Est-ce que tu surfes… – interrogative with “est-ce que”

Est-ce que tu surfes sur Internet?

Same like the previous one.

Est-ce que tu préfères aller au cinéma ou regarder la télé?