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Modals
Elementary level

Description

In this lesson, after greeting, students are provided with a text about tourist instructions. After enough exposure to the modals (can, may, must and should) in the text, they will discover the grammar point and assign each modal their uses and repeat with the correct modal pronunciation. Next, they are wanted to answer the worksheet questions individually and share the answers with their classmates. Last but not least, they imagine a cloud city and use the modals they have learned to describe its current situation.

Materials

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Main Aims

  • To provide clarification in the context of Tourist instruction

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide accuracy speaking practice in a Report in the context of Routines for the citizens of an imaginary city

Procedure

Engagement (2-3 minutes) • To energize and introduce the topic

1. Greet 2. Show the picture of a tourist 3. Ask who they think the person is 4. Say the tourist has a broucher full of instructions 5. Show the broucher and want them to read ICQs: You write? (no) You read? (yes) You do it alone? (yes)

Study (11-12 minutes) • To provide context for the target language through the text or situation

1. Show them some pictures 2. Want them to match the pictures to the relevant paragraph ICQs: You write or match? (match) You do it alone? (yes) Then you do it with your partner? (yes) How much time? (1 minute) 3. Give the sentences of the text with the modals in blanks 4. Ask them to remember the text and fill the blanks ICQs: You write? (yes) You do it alone? (yes) Then you do it with your partner? (yes) How much time? (1 minute) 5. Show them the sentences and the pictures 6. Elicit the meaning of each sentence 7. Want them to guess the meaning of the modals 8. Want them to fill the function table (including :obligation, possibility, ability and suggestion) with the modals ICQs: You write? (yes) You do it alone? (yes) Then you do it with your partner? (yes) How much time? (1 minute) 9. Read the sentences if the text and want them to repeat after you 10. Ask which part, the verb or the modal, has the stress 11. Want to read them in their group ICQs: You write or read? (read) You do it alone? (no) You read it to your partner? (yes) How much time? (1 minute) 12. Show the sentences again 13.. Ask if the verb after the modal has changed 14. Ask if the verb changes based on the subject

Activate (15-16 minutes) • To provide students with practice if the target language

1. Spread the worksheets 2. Want them to complete it ICQs: You write? (yes) You do it alone? (yes) Then you do it with your partner? (yes) How much time? (7 minutes) 3. Check the answers 4. Show them the pictures of silly activities 5. Want them to make sentences with the modals based on the pictures 6. Want them to imagine a city called cloud city and make sentences with the modals to describe what people do in the city

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