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Past Modal Verbs
Help students gain practice with past modal verbs! This worksheet for intermediate students gives both introductory information and follow-up exercises about using modal verbs to speculate about the...
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Cultural Differences - Reading Comprehension
This worksheet can be used with pre-intermediate students to work with communication, how people communicate and behave according to their culture. It's a lesson prepared for 1 hour 15 minutes and...
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Modal Verbs Test ( Must, Have to, Can, Might)
This is a test I´ve created to check the knowledge of usage of modal verbs: have to, must, can and might. It is an elementary level and it includes vocabulary connected to household chores. Short but...
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Song Worksheet: It Must've Been Love ( Advisability and Speculations)
Roxette - It must have been love. There is a vocabulary activity followed by advisability and speculation about the past. Student fill in the blanks according to what they hear then discuss the love...
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Visiting Canada Regulations
This reading comprehension has been designed to test Ss' knowledge, understanding and use of must/ have to and their negatives. It may also be used to introduce travel documents vocabulary. It...
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Must, Mustn´t, Needn´t, It´s illegal
This worksheet deals with the modals must, mustn´t, and needn´t as they imply obligation, proihibition, and lack of necessity respectively. It begins with a brief explanation of these modals, and then...
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Classroom Rules
Students are introduced to the class rules through the use of 'can't', 'mustn't, and 'aren't allowed to'. They have some pictures and must form sentences with each of the modal verbs above and the...
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Family Matters Role-Play
The pair role-plays presented in this handout will provide students with six problematic situations that they will have to sort out by giving advice and recommendations. All of the role-plays are...
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Song Worksheet: Show Must Go On by Queen
This worksheet can be used for practice modal verbs and present continuous. Song is not difficult for listening and children like it. This worksheet contains 3 tasks: 1) choose the right modal verb;...
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Review 5: Modal Verbs & Conditional Clauses (+Key)
A new ws suitable for advanced students to revise/reinforce grammar points. In this ws the students will revise modal verbs and conditional clauses. Thanks Phillip Martin for clipart. The key to the...
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Modal Verbs Test
A test for esl secondary school students on be allowed to, must, mustn't and have to. There are 5 different activites including a short reading, a multiple choice, correct the mistakes and a short...
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How to Fight Pollution
It is a writing task about pollution. Students have got a few prompts, questions and images.They can use their science knowledge about the danger of pollution and the modal verbs, such as can/could,...
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Modal Verbs Grammar Guide and Exercises
This is a worksheet for teaching modal verbs at intermediate level. There's a complete grammar with clear and simple explanations as well as example sentences followed by a simple activity in which...
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Must and Have To Intermediate Worksheet
This is a worksheet for revising must and have to at intermediate level. There are 2 activities in which students are asked to fill in the blank spaces with a suitable modal verb and fill in the blank...
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Can, Can’t / Must, Mustn't Elementary Worksheet
This is a simple and easy worksheet for teaching modal verbs (can and must) at elementary level. There is an easy activity in which students are asked to complete thirty two different sentences with...
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Talking about Football - Modal Verbs of Obligation
I work in a military college in Oman, and all my students are boys. They are football-crazy, so I used the FIFA rules to make a worksheet to help them review modal verbs to express obligation. I have...
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Modal Verbs: Must / Mustn't Elementary Worksheet
This is a worksheet for teaching or revising modal verbs at elementary level. There are 2 different activities in which students are asked to mind the examples given and change the sentences in the...
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Street Signs
There are 2 activities in this worksheet, first students have to write the street signs warnings and then draw other signs. It can also be used to review the modal verb must, students would have to...
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The Mystery of "Nasca Lines" (Listening/Reading Activity)
Nasca Lines are one of the greatest mysteries in the world. The worksheet offers you pictures for guessing the story and meaning of these lines using modals of deduction; a running dictation;...
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Modals - Speculating about the Past
Three exercises to practice modal verbs to speculate about the past. 1st exercise: could/can't. 2nd exercise must/can't and 3rd might/might not. To be honest I do not exactly remember but I think they...
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Song Worksheet: The Day before You Came (Modal Verbs of Probability)
This is a PowerPoint Presentation "Modal Verbs of Probability through the song -The day before you came". Recommended for adult students of the upper-intermediate level. I planned it as a whole lesson...
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JC'S Needn't Have Critical Path
When teaching past necessity, I have found this critical path very helpful. It helps students differenciate between necessary and unnecessary actions in the past and how to express whether they were...
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Song Worksheet: Using Modal Verbs
This is an intermediate worksheet aimed at giving students a revision of modal verbs by means of a short listening activity. The worksheet includes the lyrics of two contemporary songs. Students aged...
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Persuasion and Dissuasion
This activity is suitable to intermediate and advanced students in practicing how to persuade and/ or dissuade the other person. It is better done as a role playing activity. This will motivate...
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Modal Verbs and Phrases
The following activity will help your students practice modal verbs and phrases. It should be completed in pairs. Students A and B have gaps in different sentences. As Student A completes his sentence...
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Do You Have Any Advice?
This presentation introduces how to give advice using the modal forms could - should - and must as well as to suggest and to recommend. I had ss work in pairs or small groups to come up with ideas for...
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Must / Mustn't
Ppt presentation about must and mustn't for pre-intermediate students (10th grade). This presentation describes structures and correct use of both (must and mustn't), and gives the complete...
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Song Worksheet: How Insensitive
Gap-text where students listen and fill in the blanks. For teens or adults. Level: pre-intermediate or higher. Grammar structure in song: past modals of deduction (must have seemed, must have felt). A...
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Tipping Guide: Speaking Modal Verbs Practice
This NYC tipping guide is taken from the research of Waitbutwhy.com, original available here http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/04/everything-dont-know-tipping.html. I used the chart to start a discussion...
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Must / Mustn’t vs Have to / Don’t Have To Worksheet
This is a 2- page worksheet for teaching or revising modal verbs at elementary level. There are 4 different activities in which students are asked to rewrite the sentences, using a form with got...
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Conditionals, Modal verbs, Passive voice
This is a worksheet for pre-intermediate and intermediate students for filling the blanks with conditional 0 or 1 and some modal verbs, and turning active sentences into passive ones. It's 30 minutes...
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Modal Verb Practice (Elementary Level)
The worksheet contains three activities about modal verbs. The first task is complete the sentences. Use can, can't, could or couldn't. The second task is the same but you have to use can, can't,...
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Modal Verbs
Here is a power point presentation I did for my English class with the definition of modal verbs, a list of them (must, must not, can, could may, might, need, need not, should/ought to, had better)...
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Might - Possibility Quiz
I use the following youtube clip (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1D7VUIf8bU) to practice using modals (possibility), especially might. The students listen to the sounds of the clip and try to guess...
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Modals-Modals Perfect
This is a powerpoint presentation of modals and modals perfect for esl B1-B2 level. There are no grammar rules, only examples and pictures that better explain the use of modals. A teacher can use the...
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Modal Verbs - an Introductory Lesson (B1, B2)
It's an introduction to modal verbs - first some basic rules, then the rules for forming past (not all modal verbs have separate forms for past, some use perfect infinitive - in my experience it is...
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School Rules - Must, Must Not, Have To, Don't Have To and Can
The target language for this worksheet is must, must not, have to, don't have to and can. The way I used it was to first have students guess what the school rules were in my old school (in the US)....
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Life through the Microscope
I created this worksheet to help my students practise the modals of deduction and supposition in a fun way. They look at the picture through the microscope and try to guess what it might be. I'm sure...
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Modal Verbs
This worksheet contains brief explanations of each modal verb (can- have to- must- should) and some graphic examples that illustrate each of them. There are lots of exercises to practice. You can use...
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Song Worksheet: Green Eyes by Coldplay
This is a song that I used to introduce the modal verbs "must", "should" and "could". Students are asked to first complete sentences with the words they listen to (only modals) and then they are asked...
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Modal Verbs
This power-point presentation provides brief and simple explanations of each modal verb (can-could-may-might-must) and some exercises related to them. The aim is to clarify the use of each modal verb...
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Modal Verbs Review Quiz Game
This is the first time to upload my file here. This is a PPT for modal verbs review quiz game. Each row in the second page means the level of the question and you get different points for correct...
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Must vs Have To
This worksheet will help you to identify the difference between have to and must, and there is a free exercise that you can do with your students in junior high or elementary school. I designed it for...
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Modal Verbs
Modal verbs and their usage cause lots of problems to our students. I hope that with this ppt they will be able to understand not only what modality is but also when they can use one or another verb....
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A Visitor from Abroad
This worksheet gives students an opportunity to practice their models of obligation and recommendation while practicing airport vocabulary. Students start off with a conversation and then talk about...
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World Heritage Site Rules
This worksheet can be used in conjunction with other World Heritage Site activities. In groups, students use imperatives, 'must, and 'should' to create their own rules for visitors to World Heritage...
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My Classroom Behavior - A Modals Worksheet
A worksheet to be used at the beginning of the schoolyear. It may help the students about the teacher's expectations during the English lessons. A way to revise modals with an easy fill-in-the-blank...
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Modal Verbs Of Necessity Worksheet - Do You Have A Choice?
This worksheet lets students practise the form and function of the modal verbs of necessity (have to, don’t have to, must, mustn’t). It focuses on letting the learner choose the right verb to complete...
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Classroom Rules Game
This is a game in the form of a presentation. You can choose the number of the image by drawing lots, or put the numbers in a hat and pull out one by one. The game can be displayed on the screen of...
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Modal Verbs (present forms)
This presentation aims at practicing different modal verbs (present forms). Students complete the sentences with the necessary modals and check their answers themselves. It's thematic and...
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