Welcome to our growing collection of ESL games and activities for adult English learners as well as all the necessary printables. When teaching English as a second. Practice modal verbs can, could, might, must, should using this ESL fun Game. This game is also excellent for classroom teaching. Teachers can engage students in a. Regular and irregular verbs each student chooses any six verbs from the vocabulary list and writes them down in their base form. Write these on the board at the end of the activity and ask students to reformulate them using a modal verb. Grammar Games Modal Auxiliary Verbs Game. Modal verbs 2 tips and activities. By Kerry G Maxwell and Lindsay Clandfield. Type Reference material More teaching tips and ideas from Kerry Maxwell and Lindsay Clandfield on teaching modals. Modal Verbs Board Game Pdf' title='Modal Verbs Board Game Pdf' />ESL, English Grammar,Printable modals exercises and worksheets, modal verbs. Tips Noticing. If modal verbs are an area you havent thought much about, start looking out for them yourself in different English texts. Examining modality can give a lot of background information about the speaker or writers impression of the event. For example, what impression does the previous sentence give if you replace the word can with will What does it give if you delete can altogether With your students, this could simply mean underlining different modal verbs in a text and discussing their meaning. Best-Ideas-of-Esl-Games-Worksheets-For-Sheets-.jpg' alt='Modal Verbs Board Game Pdf' title='Modal Verbs Board Game Pdf' />More advanced students could also rewrite a text using different modal verbs in order to sound more confident, or less confident. Tips Reformulating. Many students tend to avoid modals, especially if they dont have them in their own language. When monitoring speaking activities, you could choose to focus only on modal verbs. Adobe Audition Cracked Free Download here. Listen out for examples of English that could be better replaced by a modal verb, e. It is possible that he went to the dentist. Write these on the board at the end of the activity and ask students to reformulate them using a modal verb. You could also do this with samples of students writing. Activity Agony aunt variations. One of the most popular and common activities to practise the modal verb should and sometimes ought to are situations in which people ask for advice. Many newspapers have agony aunt columns sometimes called Dear Abby columns in North America. There are two ways you can use these in class. Find some original letters and their answers on the internet. You can do this by entering agony aunt or Dear Abby in a search engine. Select some questions and the answers given better if they are short. Mix up the questions and the answers and distribute them to the students, who have to match them. When they have finished, ask them to go through and find any modal verbs in the text. As a follow up, ask students to write their own advice to those people. Ask students to each write about a problem they have real or imaginary that they would like advice on. They should write these on a slip of paper, but not write their name. Collect all the slips of paper and put the students into groups of four. Give each group four problems at random. Tell them to select two and give advice to the writer about their problem including modal verbs such as should, ought to, shouldnt, etc. When groups have finished, ask them to read out the problem and the advice. Activity Regrets. To practise should have you could ask students to think about regrets theyve had in the past. To get them started, give a few examples of your own, e. I should have visited my grandparents more. I shouldnt have started smoking. I really should have learnt another language when I was young. Write on the board the sentence stems I should have. I shouldnt have. I really should have. Ask students to complete the sentences for themselves. Tell them that these should be regrets that they dont mind sharing with others. When they have finished, ask them to work in pairs and compare their sentences. As a follow up, you can make this into an instant role play. Tell students to work with a new partner and explain the following situation You are the presidential candidate for your country. You have just lost the election. You are speaking to one of your aides. Ask students to think of ways of completing the sentence stems above. Activity Modal verb drill. To focus on form and meaning, you can set up a drill like the following. Write on the board the words possibleimpossiblecertain. Say different phrases and show how the sentence changes depending on if its possible, impossible or certain, e. We go out. point to certain Well go out. We stay at home. point to impossible We cant stay at home. We go to the cinema. We might go to the cinema. Continue, giving other cues. These cues could be spoken, or written on cards, which you can show the students, e. I have a drink. certainI have coffee. I have tea. possibleWe work tonight. You work tonight. I work tonight. certainPrepare six to twelve more examples. Activity Jump to conclusions. Tell the students you are going to describe a situation that is open to interpretation see example below. When you finish, ask them to work in pairs and make as many sentences as possible as to what may have happened. For this, they should use modal verb have past participle, e. When I arrived at school today, there were papers all over the floor in the hall and the directors office. Possible conclusions There may have been a break in. The director might have gone crazy and thrown the papers around. Some students may have played a joke. The director must have been furious. Other possible situations You were stuck in traffic for two hours. You heard loud dance music coming from the staff room. No students came to class. When you walked in, all the students started laughing. Student X was fifteen minutes late. Activity These are the rules. One activity to get students to practise modal verbs of obligation is to ask them to make rules. Here are some ways of doing it Ask students to work in groups. Give each group the name of a place e. When they finish, groups read out their rules and the others guess the place. Ask students to work in small groups or pairs. Ask them to imagine that they are in charge of designing the rules for a perfect language school. They should include what the students and teacher should do, mustnt do and can do. At the end of the activity, ask different groups to read out their rules or post them on the wall. Who has the best schoolPrepare a series of sentences about typical rules in society see below for examples and ask students to complete them with a modal verb so that they are true for their country, e. You vote in elections. You drink alcohol at the age of 1. You get married at the age of 1. You drive a car at the age of 1. You do military service when you are 1. An article by Kerry Maxwell and Lindsay Clandfield on ways to approach teaching modal verbs. Author Kerry G Maxwell and Lindsay Clandfield Type Reference material An article explaining the difference between the modal verbs may and might. Author Scott Thornbury Level Starterbeginner, Elementary, Pre intermediate, Intermediate, Upper intermediate, Advanced Type Reference material Suggestions for teaching the modals ought to, should, must and have to when talking about suggestion or advice. Author Tim Bowen Level Starterbeginner, Elementary, Pre intermediate, Intermediate, Upper intermediate, Advanced Type Reference material, Teaching notes.