Travail sur la langue

Length: 20-30 minutes

Objective: Learning the use of should and shouldn’t to give a piece of advice.
Procedure
 Identification: The professors are going to show a slide in which students will see
the poster about “How to plan a wonderful trip to Walt Disney World.” Then, the
professors are going to demand their students:

-Read the poster and underline the sentences it uses to give a piece of advice.

Professors are going to give students some minutes to write down the sentences in
their notebooks. After that, students have to read out loud their answer. If a student
makes a mistake, professors will write the sentence on PowerPoint to correct it with
the rest of the class.

 The first thing you should have clear is the exact date of your trip.
 You should rent a car.
 You should not be in a hurry to choose your ticket.

Moreover, professors will show a slide with all the sentences that students already
read, adding more examples using should with different pronouns

 The first thing you should have clear is the exact date of your trip.
 You should rent a car.
 You should not be in a hurry to choose your ticket.
 People should be careful with thief.
 I shouldn’t carry weapons.
 Parents should be looking out for their children
 We shouldn’t let our I.D cards and passports at home.
 They should wear clothes depending on the weather.
 Kids shouldn't walk alone in the park.
-In couple, students have to classify the previous sentences as negative and positive

 The first thing you should have
clear is the exact date of your trip.
 You should rent a car.
 People should be careful with
thief.
 Parents should be looking out for
their children
 You should not be in a hurry to
choose your ticket.
 I shouldn’t carry weapons.
 We shouldn’t let our I.D cards
and passports at home.
 Kids shouldn't walk alone in the
park.
  They should wear clothes
depending on the weather.

- Afterwards, professors are going to ask students to change the form of the sentences
orally. For example, if the sentence is negative, the student has to change it into
positive.

-The first thing you should have clear is
the exact date of your trip.
-You should rent a car.
- People should be careful with thief.
- Parents should be looking out for their
children.
-They should wear clothes depending on
the weather.
-You should not be in a hurry to choose
your ticket.
- I shouldn’t carry weapons.
-We shouldn’t let our I.D cards and
passports at home.
-Kids shouldn't walk alone in the park.
The first thing you shouldn’t have clear is
the exact date of your trip.
-You shouldn’t rent a car.
- People shouldn’t be careful with thief.
- Parents shouldn’t be looking out for
their children.
-They shouldn’t wear clothes depending
on the weather.
-You should be in a hurry to choose your
ticket.
- I should carry weapons.
-We should let our I.D cards and
passports at home.
-Kids should walk alone in the park.

 Conceptualization: Professors will ask students to analyze the previous exercises

to identify how they know that those sentences are recommendations. Thus,
students could recognize the use of the modals “should” and “shouldn’t” in each
sentence.

How do you know that those sentences are recommendations?

At this moment, students will realize how important is the use of “should” and
“shouldn’t” to ask and give recommendations. According to that, professors will
demand the following question:

Do you think the modal “should” changes its form when it is conjugated with
another pronoun?

To answer this questions, students will probably say that the modal “should” does
not change its form because of the pronoun. Therefore, to prove their knowledge,
professors are going to demand students to type in the chat sentences with should
and shouldn’t using different pronoun.

After that, professors will request students to read their answers and identify in
which form we have to write the main verb after the modal “should” or “shouldn’t.”

In which form do you have to write the main verb after the modal “should or
shouldn’t?”

In this way, the students will realize that the main verb must be written in the
infinitive form.