Teaching the concept of necessity
- T. writes the title of the new lesson on the blackboard: “Modal Verbs expressing Ability,
Permission and Prohibition”.
- The teacher introduces an interactive PPT presentation about modal verbs expressing ability,
permission and prohibition and explains the uses of: “Can”, “May” and “Could”
- while presenting the uses of the modal verbs, T asks students to give examples on their own.
- Practice 17 min
Activity 1 (7min.)
Skills involved: listening, speaking, writing
Interaction: T – Ss; Ss – Ss
- Students are asked to watch a short movie about the differences between “may” and “can”
when asking for permission;
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- The Teacher tells the Students to work in pairs to fill in a worksheet with the appropriate
modal verb.
- After completing the worksheet, Ss read their answers and Teacher corrects them if necessary.
Activity 2 (4 min.)
Skills involved: reading, speaking
Interaction: T – Ss; Ss – Ss
- Students read some sentences with modal verbs and identify their meaning(Exercise 5/page35);
- Teacher helps them when needed.
Activity 3 (5min.)
Skills involved: reading, speaking, writing
Interaction: T – Ss; Ss – T
- Teacher asks the Students to take a look on exercise 6/page 35 and to fill in the blanks with
can/can’t, may/may not or could.
- Students read the exercise and Teacher gives explanation if needed.
- Reading Activity 4 min
Skills involved: reading, speaking
Interaction: T – Ss; Ss – T
- Students read a text about Dr Robot
- After reading Ss find out what Dr Robot can do.
- Teacher checks their answers.
- Assessment 13 min
Skills involved: listening, writing, reading, speaking
Interaction: T – Ss; Ss – Ss
- Teacher asks Ss some questions: What their opinion is about having a robot and if it’s possible
that they have feelings.
- Students are asked to watch a short fragment from the movie “Bicentennial Man” so that they
could find out more about what robots can do.
- Teacher asks the students to complete a worksheet with what Bicentennial Man Could do using
the appropriate modal verb.
- Students read their answers and the teacher corrects them if necessary.
- Evaluation 3 min
- Considering the students’ answers during the lesson, the teacher makes positive remarks and
puts marks in the catalogue.
