There must be plenty of
ideas about how to teach modal verbs. During my fifteen years as an EFL
teacher/Professor, I have been dealing with lots of groups in which I was (still
am) supposed to teach modal verbs.
Thinking about the many possible
ways of introducing this grammar point, I decided to write some entries on how
to teach modal verbs in English.
A great deal of teachers introduce
such grammatical points, especially when it comes to obligation and permission,
by talking about laws, rules, regulations in many different places (countries,
cities, etc.).
For example, you can show
the students some pictures of schools and just say “you have to stay at school
until you are 18” or “You don’t have to go to school after you are 21”.
It is also possible to
invent some stories (students love story telling) telling your students to look
at the pictures below and create a dialogue or something like that.
A: I think it might be a(n)…
B: No, it is not. It has to
be a…
Another possible way of
talking about modal verbs in English is by asking students to search for crazy
laws in some countries and ask them to describe the laws by using the modal verbs
(should, must, have to).
After that, divide the
students into three (or more) groups and ask them to discuss their crazy laws.
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