CELTA input – language analysis –

SYSTEMS lessons and LRT

LANGUAGE ASSIGNMENT – target language: Shall I take your bags?

A. MEANING “Question form
ANALYSIS: The subject and shall change position to form questions.

Warning: We don’t use do, does, did. The question form, with I and we, is the most
common use of shall:
Shall I come round to the office?
Not: Do I shall come round to the office?

We use shall in question tags:

I’ll phone you later, shall I?”

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/modals-and-
modality/shall

B. MEANING Show a picture a picture of 2 friends chatting in a train station. Display a dialogue in
ILLUSTRATI speech bubbles with the target language contextualised.
ON:
Stuart: Shall I take your bags? You look pretty tired…
John: Sounds good to me, thank you very much!
Stuart: Shall I take your bags? You look like you need some help with that!
John: No, I’m fine, thanks anyway!

C. MEANING - Is Stuart offering to help John? Yes.

CHECK: - Is John reluctant to the offer? No.
- Is this an expression you can use to offer help? Yes.
- Does Stuart tries to help John with his luggage? Yes.
- Does John wants his help? No.

D. ORM
ANALYSIS:

The United Kingdom’s international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural 1
relations. We are registered in England as a charity.
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 CELTA input – language analysis –
SYSTEMS lessons and LRT

E. PRON Shall I take your BAgs?

ANALYSIS:
Bolded show sentence stresses and the capitals show the main stress.
“I” is very weakly said and sounds like it’s part of “shall”.
Intonation rises until “take” and then falls, it rises again until “bags” to and then again
falls.

The United Kingdom’s international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural 2
relations. We are registered in England as a charity.
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