Business English 2, (ML,PI,U1,C3)

Lesson Duration: 50min # students

Lesson Aim: Modals ‘can’, ‘could’ and ‘would’.
Student details: Age (s): Level:
Date: Class Room

Time Student activity Teacher activity

Engagement activity Play Video, Unit 1, and then discuss her
Melissa Fox’s interview advice (ML, advice for interviewees. How much is it
Pre.int, ROM) good to know about a potential
Watch video and discuss her advice employer?

Presentation stage Models are verbs like ‘may, might, can,

Modals (ML, Pre.int, CB, p.10) could’ which don’t decline with different
Match the modals to their people, but define ability, requests and
examples, a-2, b-3, c-1, offers. E.g. ‘modal + go to the toilet.’

Can, requests, give permission, offer,

describe ability, express possibility

Could, future possibilities

Would, requests, offers, imaginary

situations
Study stage Work with the students to rearrange the
Modals in Sentences (ML, Pre.int, sentences a) and match the questions
CB, p.10) and answers b).
a) together rearrange the words to
make sentences then b) match the
answers to the questions,

Time Student activity Teacher activity

Practice Stage Put the students in pairs to ask each
Modal questions (ML, Pre.int, CB, other for the information in c), as if
p.10) they are asking interview questions
 c) In pairs ask each other
questions, using modal verbs, to
get the information from their
partner

Warm down/follow up Have students decide which modals

Practice exercise, language should go in the blanks
review, U1, Ex2, (ML, Pre.int,
ROM)
Fill in the blanks together

SKILL making telephone contact Play tracks8-10 individually, and

(ML, Pre.int, CB, p.11) discuss their purpose and if they know
Listen to CD1, U1, tracks8-10 and each other,
discus their purpose and if they Complete, c)-e) and f) if there is time
know each other,

Sources of materials used: Market Leader Pre-Intermediate Course Book, Market

Leader Pre-Intermediate Software,

Materials: