LESSON PLAN

Name: Arsenie Oliviu

Date: 10.05.2007
School: Grupul Scolar Forestier Tg. Jiu
Class: 10
Lesson: Modal verbs „can, could, may, might, shall, should,
ought to, must, have to”
Unit of Learning: Unit 13
Level: Pre-intermediate
Time: 50’.

OBJECTIVES:
1.To make the students use the modal verbs in sentences of
their own.
2.To have the students eliciting the contexts where the modal
verbs appear
3.To use the modal verbs properly in sentences of their own.
4.To solve some exercises with the modal verbs

STRATEGIES:
1.Pair-work
2.Group work
3.Gap-filling
4.Rephrase

CONTENTS

OBJECTIVE1: ESTIMATED TIME: 10 MINUTES

CONTEXT: SS’ Previous knowledge about modal verbs
ACTIVITY/CLASS ORGANISATION: SS are divided into
pairs. They are given some sheets of paper and asked to solve
the task on them.They have to underline the modal verbs in
some sentences.
AIDS: task-sheets
LANGUAGE: all and any but mostly modal verbs.
POSSIBLE PROBLEMS: SS. may not recognize all modal verbs
in their sentences.The teacher must to insist in task solving .

OBJECTIVE2:ESTIMATED TIME: 1O MINUTES

ACTIVITY/CLASS ORGANISATION:
The teacher will ask the students to write on the blackboard
those sentences containing the modal verbs from their
previous task.Then the teacher will underline the modal verb
can, could, may, might, shall, should, ought to, must, have to and
will ask the students about the reason for their usage
there.Whenever a student gives the right answer, the teacher
will ask him to write it on the blackboard.
AIDS:Blackboard,chalk
LANGUAGE: Al land any
POSSIBLE PROBLEMS: The SS may not see clearly why the
verbs have been used so the teacher must act like a helper and
explain well all the situations.

OBJECTIVE3:ESTIMATED TIME: 10 MINUTES

ACTIVITY/CLASS ORGANISATION
The Ss will be asked to keep their pairs.Then they will be
assigned a new topic.The teacher tells them that they are to
solve some exercises in order to fix the knowledge.The
students will have to recognize the values of the modal
verbs.In the end the teacher will discuss the answers pointing
up to the mistakes and trying to correct them.
LANGUAGE: Al land any
POSSIBLE PROBLEMS: The SS may have difficulties in using
the modal verbs in sentences of their own and they also may
have problems with their recognising the values of the modal
verbs..The teacher must help them.
OBJECTIVE 4: ESTIMATED TIME: 20 MINUTES
ACTIVITY/CLASS ORGANISATION: The students will be
asked to solve some exercises ,centred upon the modal verbs
„can, could, may, might, shall, should, ought to, must, have to”.
LANGUAGE: All and any.
AID: Task-sheets
POSSIBLE PROBLEMS: The SS may have difficulties in solving
the exercises.The teacher will gently correct the mistakes and
explain again the points where they didn’t seem to have
understood well.

HOMEWORK: . Write about a genius.Refer to present and

express some things about the future.