Modal verbs of possibility ability and advice

Here is a fun activity that you can use to review modality and its many uses.

Materials: Pictures of weird Japanese inventions, creativity, whiteboard, Paper and pens, worksheet and guided discovery

Level: Intermediate

Pre class - create a guided discovery work sheet and place answers around the classroom.

1. Students work in groups and look at pictures of weird Japanese inventions (type this into google images), they discuss what they think? (print out the pictures and give one of each to each group, the sillier the better)

2. Students share their opinions with the class.

3. Students complete a guided discovery that gets them to think about how modal verbs are used e.g. 'Can' is used for, 'should' is used for, find the incorrect sentence, or on a scale of 0% - 100% put these modal verbs of possiblity in order: won't, may, might, will probably etc... Place the answers around the room.

4. Students use the modal verbs to talk about which inventions they will use, won't use, might use etc.

• Students also say what you can/could do with the crazy inventions and why people should/ought to use an invention.

5. Students create a poster advert for the product saying how this product could help you and why you should or ought to buy it.

6. Students put the posters on the wall and review each others.

7. Students create a new product and create a new tv advert or dragons dens style sales pitch.