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Modal auxiliary verbs

See also:
functions:
advice / suggestions
 
functions:
request
 
functions:
permission / prohibition
 
functions:
ability
 
functions:
obligation
 
functions:
deductions / guesses
 
functions:
predictions
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Introduction to modals
 
Language analysis worksheet introducing the modals and some of the functions they express. Students match modals to functions.
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
Modal auxiliary verbs - functions quiz
Twenty-question multiple-choice quiz. Identify functions from examples
 
 
Modal auxiliary verbs - deductions
Multiple-choice quiz on modals for expressing degrees of certainty. Example: She must / may / can't be in the library. Includes modal perfect: He might / must / can't have gone home.
 
 
Modal auxiliary verbs exercise - past, present and future time
Ten-question multiple-choice quiz. Modals for possibility, obligation, ability relating to present and past time. Includes modal perfect should have etc. Upper intermediate - advanced level learners.
 
 
Modal auxiliary verbs - advanced quiz
Twelve-question advanced level MC quiz. Modal and modal perfect. Includes deductions, speculation, criticism (You might have said sorry), contrast (He might be a great artist but I don't like this picture) and idiomatic phrases We might as well go home.
 
 

 

Material from other sources

 
 
 
Multiple-choice modal auxiliary verbs quiz external link icon
Ten-question, two-choice modals quiz (easy)
 
 

 

 
 
 
New Cutting Edge Upper Intermediate students' book book cover 
New Cutting Edge Upper Intermediate students' book
Module 9 Mysteries, problems, oddities  Pages 96 - 4
Modals for ability and probability/possibility (deduction). Unit theme : mysteries.
 
 
Grammar Activities Two - Upper Intermediate book cover 
Grammar Activities Two - Upper Intermediate
38 Modal verbs - could / might / would / should / have done  Page 38 
could / could have; might / might have; should /should have
 
37 Modal verbs - would / should / could / have done  Page 37 
Gapped setences with pictures.
 
36 Modal verbs - possibility / probability  Page 36 
would, should and could have
 
32 - 33 Modal verbs - would / should / could / might  Pages 32 - 33
Would, could, should and might. Various functions.
 
 
Reward Pre-Intermediate Resource Pack  book cover 
Reward Pre-Intermediate Resource Pack
26 My ideal world  Page 26 
Students complete statements about their ideal world beginning (person) must... e.g. 'A good friend must...' Then compare with others
 
36 This may be your life  Page 36 
May, might, will. won't Class survey to compare people's predictions about their futures.
 
 
The Great Train Robbery
 
<i>Black Mirror</i>
 
Escape from the canyon