Check your understanding.

Wala: Descriptive and modal verbs.

L.O: explore descriptive verbs and modal verbs.

Success Criteria:

a) I can identify and choose descriptive verbs.

b) I can identify and use modal verbs appropriately.

Check your understanding.(5min)

• Work with a partner and complete a sentence using the verb must.

  You must ...

• Now replace must with may.

  Which sentence gives permission,

  and which one obliges you to do something?

• Do the same with could and should. Explain the difference in the effect.

Activity 1 (15 minutes)

• Discuss the questions and write the answers.

• Learners book page 15

• Learners must find text examples to back up their ideas – their ideas alone are not enough.

Answers.

• For working so hard when she could be

  enjoying the day.

• When summer is over, food will be hard to find. Ant is reminding Grasshopper to prepare for this.

• The way she speaks(tone) As it happens ... you know! snapped.

• Being cold and hungry in the winter and seeing that the ants have provisions while he has none.

• Accept any thoughtful answer.

Activity 2

(10 minutes)

• Verbs can tell you about characters through how they act and move.

• Learners book page 16 and 17

• Gr 1: Do (a)

• Gr 2: Do (b), (c), (d)

• Gr 3: (e), (f)

Answers.

• a) Learners own answers.

• b) Possible verbs: snapped, toiling

  (continued on her industrious way)

  
  

• c) bustled, lugging, scurry, gathering, never stopping, busied by, continued on her industrious way, toiling – all indicate that the Ant was a hard worker and responsible/reliable.

Answers.

• d) Verb: to work out or understand something by thinking about it deeply.

• e) Past tense – many examples could be given,

  e.g. was bouncing, bustled, was lugging, watched, found

• f) Present tense – many examples could be given, e.g. Take it easy, are working, is

Work with modal verbs.

• Learners book page 17 ( Discuss )

• Modal verbs can say more than how likely something is to happen (I might ... I will ...I could ... I may ... I would ...).

• They can also express obligation (I ought to ... I should ...I must ...).

• They can also express permission (I may ...)

• They can also express ability (I can ... I could ...).

Activity 3

(15 minutes)

• Learners book page 18

• Gr 1: Do (a)

• Gr 2: Do (b)

• Gr 3: Do (c), the modal verb must

  fit the context of the pairs of sentences.

Exit ticket.

• Organise learners into groups and give each group a set of modal cards.

• They place them face down on the table and in turn, they turn over a card and invent a sentence using the modal verb.

• Does it express possibility, obligation, permission or ability?

• (H/W) Workbook pg 11 and 12