Modal Verbs

 

Lesson Plan of Modal Verbs –II

Subject English

Grade V

Students` Learning Outcomes

 

• Illustrate use of can/can`t, may/mayn`t, and should/should n`t to express permission, prohibition, doubt, and obligation.

Information for Teachers

• Modal verbs are those helping verbs which help to express the mood or manner in which the action is done are, as;

Modal Verb	function	Examples
Will	Asking	Will you go to school?
Would	Requesting	Would you give me a table-tennis ball?
Shall	Asking	Shall I do the work?
Should	Suggestion	You should work hard.
Can	Ability	He can drive a car.
Could	Ability/ requesting	He could do the sum. Could you help me to do the sum?
May	Possibility/permission/prayer	He may come here today. May I come in? May you live long.
Might	Possibility/suggestion	His statement might be true. You might go to France for training.
Must	Certainty/obligation	It must be good. You must`t do this. You must obey your teachers.
Mustn`t	Prohibition	You must not (must`t) run in the sun.
Need	Necessity	He need not go there.
Needn`t	Negation	I need not (need`t) want a book now.
Dare	Bold assertion/daring courage	I dare say you are a fool. He dares to stand alone.
Daren`t	Afraid to do	I dare not (Daren`t) follow you.  He dare not (Daren`t) do it.
Ought (to)	Moral obligation/suggestion	We ought to love neighbors. This is really a good film; you ought to see it.
Used (to)	habit	He used to walk early in the morning.

 

• The SLO is achieved in two lessons. In this lesson ‘should’ and ‘shouldn`t’ will be focused.

Material/Resources

Writing board, chalk/marker, textbook

Introduction

Note:

• The students studied the use of should/should not in grade 4. Therefore, revise the concept in the introduction.
• Write a sentence on the writing board using “should”. E.g. students should speak English in the classroom.
• Ask the students when should is used. If they give correct answer, Reinforce the use of should and should not with the help of examples written on a chart paper.

Development

Activity 1

• Ask the students to take out their notebooks.
• Write the following sentences on the writing board and tell the class to fill in the blanks with should or should n`t.

1. You _____________________ be selfish. (Should n`t)
2. I don’t think you ______________ smoke. (Should)
3. You are overweight. You ___________________ go on a balanced diet. (Should)
4. The kids’ _____________________spend so much time in front of the television, (Should n`t)
5. I think we ____________________ reserve our holidays in advance. (Should)
6. Mehk ___________________________eat so many lollipops, It`s bad for our teeth. (Should n`t)
7. They have a test tomorrow. They __________________ go to cinema. (Should n`t)
8. What _____________I wear I have a party tonight? (Should)
9. You ______________ speak to your mother like this. (Should n`t)
10. Where _____________________ we park our car?

• Guide the students wherein they need help.

Activity 2

• Write ‘Playground Rules’ on the writing board.
• Tell students to think and tell some playground rules. They must use ‘should’ and ‘should n`t’ in each rule.
• Write one rule on the writing board for students` understanding. E.g. playground should be used by students to play.
• Write rules on the writing board after taking their feedback.
• Provide students with vocabulary where they need.
• Tell the students to write in their notebooks the ‘Playground Rules’.
• The teacher can devise classroom rules with students using should or should not.

Sum up / Conclusion

• Quickly revise with the students the situations in which should/should not is used.

Assessment

• Assess students` ability to demonstrate use of should /should not through their correct responses during introductions
• Assess students` ability to use should/should not through the correct answers given in the activity 1 and the language produced during the activity 2.
• Give students a written test in which they have to write five classroom rules for good behavior.
• Find the exercise related to the topic in the textbook.
• Students must do this exercise in the notebook or on the textbook.

Follow up

• Write on the writing board ‘What should we do? ‘And ‘What should we not do?
•  To keep our house clean, tell the students to write three suggestions on: What should we do to keep our house clean?”
• Tell them to write two sentences on what they should not do to keep their house clean.