modal verbs

Modal Verbs / Helping Verbs

Objective: students will be able to create sentences in oral and written form using Modal verbs appropriate to context.

Open Ended

DO NOW: Make a list of some of your abilities: (things you CAN do)

For example: I can speak English.

TYPES OF MODAL VERBS:

• ABILITY: I CAN read Arabic.

• POSSIBILITY: It MIGHT Snow Wednesday.

• PERMISSION/REQUEST: MAY I use the bathroom?

• ADVICE: You SHOULD go to class.

• OBLIGATION: You MUST wear a mask.

• CONDITIONAL: I WOULD study for the test, If I were you.

MODAL VERB SENTENCE STRUCTURE:

• + SUBJECT - MODAL -BARE STEM OF VERB (She CAN stay.)

• - SUBJECT - MODAL (N'T) - BARE STEM OF VERB ( HE SHOULDN'T LEAVE)

• ? MODAL - SUBJECT -BARE STEM OF VERB ( MAY I use the bathroom?)

Multiple Choice

Which sentence is correct?

• She can speaks Russian

• She can speaking Russian

• She can speak Russian

• She cans speak Russian

Multiple Choice

Which sentence is correct?

• You should studying more.

• You should studies more

• You should study more

Multiple Choice

Which sentence is correct?

• Tom might go to college.

• Tom mights go to college

• Tom might goes to college

Anna discovered that her boyfriend is cheating on her.

what should she do?

Ava just learned that she has Coronavirus.

What should she do?

Sarah is homeless and Hungry.

What should she do?

What would you do?

watch the video clip and write one sentence describing what you would do in this situation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixIMEwIxnAU

Open Ended

what would you do if you saw this happening?

Reconstruction After the Civil War.

Much of the Southern United States was destroyed during the Civil war. Farms and plantations were burned down and their crops destroyed. Also, many people had Confederate money which was now worthless. The South needed to be rebuilt.

Multiple Choice

What was the state of the South after the Civil War?

• it was the same as before the war.

• It was like new

• It was destroyed from war

Reconstruction:

The rebuilding of the South after the Civil War is called Reconstruction. The purpose of the Reconstruction was to help the South become a part of the Union again. Federal troops occupied much of the South during the Reconstruction to insure that laws were followed and that more conflict did not occur.

Multiple Choice

What was the time period called after the Civil War?

• Rebuilding

• Reconstruction

• Reparation

How should we treat the South?

Many people wanted the South to be punished for trying to leave the Union. Other people, however, wanted to forgive the South and let the healing of the nation begin.

Abraham Lincoln wanted to be lenient to the South and make it easy for southern states to rejoin the Union. His goal was to make everyone happy and avoid more conflict.

Multiple Choice

What was Lincoln's attitude of how we should treat the South after the War?

• he thought we should punish them

• he didn't care

• he thought we should be lenient with them.