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School Year 2023-2024

Junior Business High School Department

Activity in English 9

Name: CATAPANG, Rein Fiel C. Date: September 08, 2023

Section: 9 - Diamond
WW 1.2. Using Modals to Give Advice
Instructions: Re-read the poem On His Blindness. In the boxes below, write five sentences expressing
your advice to the persona/speaker in the poem. Use the different modals in the first column.

On His Blindness
John Milton

When I consider how my light is spent

Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest he returning chide,
"Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"
I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts: who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed
And post o'er land and ocean without rest:
They also serve who only stand and wait."

modal to use Sentences

Example: should - You should keep your head up, and trust the Lord’s plans.
1. should Worry not and should pray always for He listen.
2. should You should add more lines into the poem.
3. must Good things must done you value the most.
4. ought to You ought to create positive things around you.
5. had better You had better put God first in your life.