2. MODAL VERBS
¿What is a modal verb?
It’s a verb used with another verb to express an idea such as possibility that
is not expressed by the main verb.
Example
3. HAVE TO / MUST
We use have to or must when we talk about OBLIGATIONS.
EXAMPLE: -You have to download this programme in your computer!
-You must turn off your mobile pone when you are in class!
We use do not have to or mustn’t when we talk about PROHIBITIONS.
EXAMPLE: -You don’t have to finish it now!
-You mustn’t sleep with your mobile pone next-to your head!
4. CAN
We use can when we talk about ABILITIES and PERMISSIONS in the present.
EXAMPLES: -You can upload pictures with this app.
We use can not to talk about PROHIBITIONS or things that we can not do in the
present .
EXAMPLES: -You can not use the mobile phone in class.
5. COULD
We use could when we talk about ABILITIES and PERMISSIONS in the past.
EXAMPLES: -You could search information on the internet.
We use could not to talk about PROHIBITIONS or things that we could not do in
the past.
EXAMPLES: -You could not drive when we were using the mobile phone.
6. WILL BE ABLE TO
We use will be able to when we talk about ABILITIES and PERMISSIONS in the future.
EXAMPLES: -You will be able to have curved mobile phones.
We use won’t be able to, to talk about PROHIBITIONS or things that we won’t be able
to do in the future.
EXAMPLES: -In the future we won’t be able to live without electronical objects.
7. NEED TO
We use need to for express a NECESSITY.
EXAMPLES: -You need to charge the mobile phone.
8. ALLOW SOMEBODY TO/ BE
ALLOWED TO
We use allow somebody to when we talk about LET SOMETHING happen or be done.
EXAMPLES: -You allow the students to use the mobile phone to search information.
We use be allowed to talk about RULES, AUTHORIZATIONS and PERMISSIONS.
EXAMPLES: -You are allowed to enter in this web.
9. SHOULD /OUGHT TO
We use should when we want to talk of our OPINION on the OBLIGATION and
ADVICE.
EXAMPLES: -You should leave the social networks for a long time.
-You shouldn’t use the phone so much.
We use ought to when we want to talk about the DUTY, the RULES and the
MORAL OBLIGATIONS.
EXAMPLES: -You ought to update the device.
10. GAME
RULES:
• First you have to read the phrases on the next page.
• Then, you have to think which is the modal verb that completes the phrase.
• The sooner you guess the right modal verb, the more points you earn.
• 1 verb=1 point
• There’s more than one possible answer.
LET´S PLAY!
11. GAME
You ________ use Instagram if you´re younger than 12.
You ________ be respectful to people.
We _________ have videocams that you _______ smell the thinks that are in the
other side of the screen.
Our parents _______ have an app that will track down where are his daughters and
sons.
12. GAME
You CAN´T use Instagram if you´re younger than 12.
You MUST/SHOLUD be respectful to people.
We WILL BE ABLE TO have videocams that you CAN smell the thinks that are in
the other side of the screen.
Our parents NEED TO have an app that will track down where are his daughters
and sons.
