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ESL ADVANCED MODAL VERBS EXERCISES HOW TO
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When students have finished elicit sentences and conduct oral drills of selected sentences with the whole class for extra oral practice.ģ. ‘I can drive a car but I can’t sail a boat.’ Controlled writing practice – students construct sentences about themselves using can and can’t, e.g. write the following words pairs on the whiteboard (even more effective if you can find pictures for the activities)Ģ. Learning Objective: Controlled oral and written practice of can and can’t for personal abilityġ. Advanced students study modal perfects and the more subtle nuances of meaning. Typically it starts at elementary level with can and could to talk about ability, and gets progressively more complex as students move through the levels – should and ought to for advice, must for obligation, might and could for probability, and so on. Textbooks following a structural approach to grammar introduce modal verbs, with their various usages and meanings, in stages. You can’t swamp elementary students with all the details described above.

So, how to go about teaching this complex group of verbs? Instead we use they to talk about events which are possible, necessary, improbable or impossible. They are not used to talk about things which are actually happening or have happened. (will / shall / would / should have contracted forms – I’ll / I’d)ħ.

They all have contracted negative forms – can’t / mustn’t / won’t. They are followed by the infinitive without to (except for ought).Ħ. Questions and negatives are made without the verb to do.ĥ. All modals, except for shall, are used with the perfect infinitive to talk about past.ģ. Although could and would have past meanings in some cases. There are no past forms, hence no –ed endings. There’s no –s on the 3rd person singular. Modal verbs work differently to other verbs and they have several points in common.ġ.

obligation / deduction / ability / possibility / permission / requests / orders / suggestions / predictions / criticisms / intentions / habits / advice / imaginary situations / future / conditionals.

Each modal verb has at least two meanings. It’s a versatile collection of verbs, readily adapted to many different functions and uses.

can / could / may / might / must / will / would / shall / should / ought / need.

Modality is mainly expressed using modal verbs and, depending on how you categorize them, there are 11 in English – As with mood, modality is about the speaker and the intention of their utterance there is a functional meaning to what is being said. If you have please let me know, I’d like to see it.Ĭlosely linked to mood, but far more important to us in the EFL classroom and useful to our students generally, is modality. In fact, I’ve never come across a course or textbook which includes the concept. Mood is a language feature not commonly found in the EFL classroom.

The subjunctive, often used in subordinate clauses, refers to situations that don’t actually exist, showing different states such as necessity, judgment, emotion and possibility.

The imperative is a command (very useful for the parade ground but do we really need to teach it to our elementary students) Stand up.

The indicative is a simple statement of fact as opposed to something imaged or desired It’s Tuesday.

In English there are three moods – my daughter has many more than this. In grammar, mood indicates the attitude of the speaker towards what they are saying.

It sounds like something my daughter would watch on children’s TV – “In today’s program of ‘Moody Verbs’ the auxiliary verb to be gets rather upset”.

ESL ADVANCED MODAL VERBS EXERCISES HOW TO

ESL ADVANCED MODAL VERBS EXERCISES TV