2. Agenda
• 1B = Unit 28-29 (modals of advice)
• 1A = preposition PPTs, HW check, and
final exam review
3. Modals for Advice
• What modals do you know for advice?
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– Should (advice)
• You should study before the test.
– Might want to (suggest advice)
• You might want to read the chapter before tomorrow.
– Ought to (stronger advice, less common expression)
• You ought to be nicer to your family.
– Had better (warning, consequence)
• You had better eat your dinner or your mother will be very
angry.
Try each modal in a sentence with your parnter.
4. Modals for Advice
Might want to is more polite and less direct than should,
ought to, and had better.
Try it out with your partner.
Use maybe, probably, or I think with should and ought to
soften the advice.
Maybe we should turn off our phones before class.
We should probably turn off our phones now.
I think we should turn off our phones
Try them out with your partner.
Use “why don’t we” to make suggestions softly and
politely.
Why don’t we study together before the test?
