ATA a 14 School rules modais- have got to, ought to, must, mustn’t ® Answer these questions about your school/college. 1a) Do you have to wear a uniform? b) Do you have to sign in when you arrive? ©) Do you have to do homework every night? ) Do you have to stay at school until you're 16? @® Think of three questions you'd like to ask a British teenager about school. Write them down. Ideas: lunch, subjects, length of school day, number of lessons per day, exams, holidays @® Here are some rules from the Heron Secondary School. Put the words in the correct order, adding must or mustn‘t. a) school you wear uniform You must wear school uniform. b) before arrive you 9.00.am .. @ animals bring school you into one in or corridors you the eat classrooms sports hall laboratories ©) litter drop you f) gum chew you - oe ~ @) you polite and teachers to adults be 1h) give ontime you your in homework - Kerry is 15 and lives in London. She lives with her mum, her dad and her sister, Cheri. Her older brother has left home now. Read about some of the rules in her house. Rules are simple in our house. | must always be home on time. | must help with the chores around the house. My particular jobs are to empty the rubbish bins and ironing. | mustn't watch TV until I've done all my homework and | mustn't spend more than half an hour on the phone. What are the rules in your house? Write about them in the same way. @ Work in groups. You are members of a student council Talk about things you want to change at school / college, for example behaviour, sports, appearance, exams. Use should / shouldn't and ought to / oughtn’t to + infinitive. Examples: We ought to havea drinks machine in the changing rooms. There should be fewer rules. We shouldn't have to wear a uniform.@® Work in pairs. Make recommendations to each other, using must, ought to or should and the prompts below. Read the two examples first. a) the new Chilis CD bb) the new Brad Pitt film ©) the double chocolate ice cream 4) the new clothes shop on the corner @) the new beach café f) yoga fou must read the new Stephen Kingl [t's brilliant. ‘You ought to/should try this new make-up. | love it. A strong recommendation ‘A weaker recommendation @) some people have done the wrong thing. Use these past forms to say what went wrong: should/shouldn’t have; ought to/oughtn’t have. Write two comments on each situation. a) Sue had a party while her parents were away. There was a terrible mess the next day. It ‘took hours to clear up. Her friends didn’t help. b) Mark went for a swim in the lake on his own. He didn’t tell anyone before he went. He had a problem while he was in the water and nearly drowned. Luckily there was a fisherman on the lake. ©) went on holiday with my friends, Danny and Clem. We stayed at a campsite. One day we went to the beach. We left our money and passports in our tent. Danny said the ‘campsite was safe. There was a security man but somebody stole everything. ) A top athlete won lots of world records. She thought she would do better if she took some steroid drugs. Her trainers told her not to. The Athletics Association found out about the drugs. Now she has lost her world records. Cy a AEN RTE TRH TERE)