Module 4 Unit 2 Sporting Events

　　　　　　　学案 3 Grammar and Usage

I. Teaching Aims:

1. Learn that modal verbs can be used to talk about ability, obligation, certainty or permission, to make requests, suggestions, offers and to give advice.

2. Enable students to learn that some modal verbs can be used with the continuous form and the perfect form to talk about current affairs or past actions.

II. Teaching Important Points:

1. Develop the students' ability of using modal verbs.

2. How to make students master the usage of modal verbs.

III. Teaching Methods:

Explanation and exercise

IV. Teaching Procedures:

Step1 Warming up

Say some sentences to warm up students:

(1) Can you drive ?

(2) You must work hard ,or you have to live a hard life.

Step2 Lead in

　　　Let students say sentences including modal verbs as many as possible.

Step3 Activities:

(1) Introduce modal verbs with the following:

------ Now, many of us can speak English quite well, but a few years ago, we couldn't. If we talk about the ability someone has now , we use "can". If we talk about the ability someone had in the past, we usually use "could".

　　(2) Ask students: If we talk about the ability in the future, what modal verbs do we use ?

　　　　　　　　( will, shall, be able to )

(3) Ask students to make sentences using these words to talk about ability.

　 (4) Talk about obligation of the modal verbs "should, ought to, have to, must ".

Step4 Write the following sentence on the blackboard :

(1) I might/may/could/should/ought to/will/must watch the TV programme tonight.

　　　------ Explain the usage of these modal verbs, showing more examples on the screen.

Step5 Explain the usage of permission of the modal verbs "Can, could, might"

------- Show the examples.

Step6. Ask students to read Part 1 on page 28 to find out how modal verbs are used to talk about ability, obligation, certainty and permission, showing more examples to the students and explaining the usage to the students.

(i) Ability------ can/could

例句：1) He _________ run the 100m sprint in 11 seconds.

　2) _________ the girl read before she goes to school?

(ii) Obligation------ ought to/should

have to/must