Ever wonder about the future? Now you know how to speculate in a grammatically correct way! Work on modals to speculate about events from the past, present, and future with a helpful and straightforward slideshow presentation.

Concepts

Modals, parts of speech, Grammar, verbs, past participles

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Have learners watch the presentation in a computer lab or class set of tablets as a warm-up activity
• Encourage your class to write a short story or narrative essay using some of the phrases from the presentation
• Divide your class into pairs and have them write a script, in which they ask each other questions and answer with the appropriate modal phrases

Classroom Considerations

• The concept of modals is a little tricky, especially when paired with the concept of past participles; consider using after your lesson on interrogative sentences or parts of speech

Pros

• Clarifies a confusing topic for mainstream classes or English learners
• Encourages your class to examine their word choice
• Provides practice slides to reinforce new skills

Cons

• None

Common Core

L.4.1.a L.4.1.c L.5.1.a L.6.1.a L.7.1.a L.8.1.a