This document provides a lesson on modal verbs. It defines modal verbs as add-on verbs used to show necessity, possibility, or obligation. Example modal verbs include must, shall, will, should, would, can, could, may, and might. The document includes activities for students to practice using modal verbs in sentences and a dialogue writing exercise. It concludes with a discussion of how understanding modal verbs can improve writing.

1. Modal Verbs
Getting your point across!

2. Lesson Objective
To know how to
use modal verbs
effectively in your
writing.

3. Modal Verbs
A modal verb is an add-on
verb used to show necessity,
possibility or obligation.
Necessity: Is this needed?
Possibility: Can this be
done?
Obligation: Does this have
to happen?

4. Modal Verbs
This includes:
must, shall, will,
should, would,
can, could, may,
might
E.g. I could walk to
school this morning.

5. Activity 1:
What’s Missing?
Let’s add a modal verb in the gap provided in these
sentences to show necessity, possibility, or obligation.
Rewrite them into your books.
1. I ( ? ) read a good book on my bus trip.
2. Suddenly, she realised it ( ? ) be a good idea to hurry up.
3. ( ? ) you want a longer lunch hour?
4. ( ? ) we change our minds about this?
5. Various people think they ( ? ) need answers to this.

6. Activity 2:
Making Meaning
Now make your own sentences in your book using these
modal verbs. They can be questions or statements.
1. Could
2. Shall
3. Will
4. Can
5. Should
Extension: Can you make these sentences all part of a
paragraph on one topic?

7. Activity 3: A Little Drama
You have been made a script writer for
the new school play, “The Far Side of
the Universe!”
You have been asked to write a scene
where the main character Lupo, needs
a special transmitter to repair his
spaceship and has to ask the alien
Zorberg.
Using as many modal verbs as you
can, write the dialogue for this scene.

8. Peer Assessment
Swap with the person next to you.
Read their work and check to see
that:
Proper nouns have capitals
Subject and object pronouns are
used correctly.
Then give them a medal and a
mission (something they did well
and something to work on).

9. Plenary
How does
knowing about
modal verbs help
you improve your
writing?

10. Plenary
How does
knowing about
modal verbs help
you improve your
writing?