Power Point on Modals
Students will be able to identify the meaning of the word modals .
Will be able to use modals accurately to change the meaning of the sentence.
A modal verb is a type of auxiliary verb that is usually used with another verb to express ideas such as possibility, necessity, and permission
They give additional information about the function of the main verb that follows it.
The negative forms of modal verbs are often contracted. Negatives are formed by adding ‘not’ after the modal verbs.
1. Interpret these sentences.
“You could learn a thing or two.”
“Would you mind taking out the trash.”
“You should drive carefully in bad weather.”
That bottle will hold two liters of juice.
Shall I leave now?
3. Lesson Outcomes
▪ Students will be able to identify the meaning of the word modals .
▪ Will be able to use modals accurately to change the meaning of the
sentence.
4. What is a ‘Modal’?
A modal verb is a type of auxiliary
verb that is usually used with
another verb to express ideas
such as possibility, necessity, and
permission
They give additional information
about the function of the main
verb that follows it.
6. The negative forms
of modal verbs are
often contracted.
Negatives are
formed by adding
‘not’ after the
modal verbs.
Negative Forms
of Modals
7. Shall & Should
USES
▪ Offer/Volunteering
Shall I help you with the luggage?
▪ Obligation in very formal situations.
Students shall not enter here.
▪ Permission Shall I do it or will you?
8. Shall & Should
USES
▪ Advice or suggestion
You should stay at home if you are feeling
tired.
▪ Obligation and duty.
▪ You should follow the netiquette.
▪ Possibility in the present.(expectation)
▪ Mary should be at home now.
9. Will & Would
Desire, preference, choice, or consent.
I will do that for you if you like.
Determination, insistence, or persistence
I will study hard from now on.
Capacity or capability
The ship will take three hundred guests.
In the future. Joe will travel to NY next week.
10. Would
Request. Would you mind waiting for a
moment?
Habits or things we usually do or did in the
past.
When I was young, I would play soccer.
.
11. Structure of Modal Verb
Writing sentences with modal verbs is very easy for several reasons.
1. We always use the modal verb after the subject and before the main verb.
She/he/I/we/ shall / should/ will / would eat the vegetables.
2.We do not use any auxiliary verb with the modals.
We can use short forms.
I/you/he/she/we/they shouldn’t/shan’t/won’t/wouldn’t eat sweets.
12. Structure of Modal Verb
3. In interrogative sentences modal verbs come first followed by the subject and
the main verb.
Should I/you/he/she/we/they eat sweets?
Shall I/we help? (used only in the first person singular and plural.)
Will I/you/he/she/we/they be home early tomorrow?
Would you like to help? (used only with second person)
13. Fill in the blanks with suitable modals
1.I ___________ write a letter on Monday.
2.I _____________get paid more for the hard work that I do .
3.Mom thinks you ___________clean your room.
4._________ we get ready by ten?
5.Nicky thought she __________ be late for the meeting so she took a taxi
from the station.
