Patricia Actis June 11 - Functional language - Unit 13
Intermediate B1 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide clarification, review and practice of Modal Verbs could, should plus have in the context of autobiography of a famous business man who made a mistake.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide accuracy speaking practice in a the contracted forms could've, should've in the context of the rise and fall and rise again of a business man - an autobiography
Procedure (45-63 minutes)
Set the context of Regret and Criticism, introduce Ratner's short bio and blunder.
ICQ s before the audio about rather. i ll ask Who feels sorry for Ratner. Who is critical of him? And what is the sentence that express criticism.
Show them the structure could've should've shouldn't have to express criticism, regret and suggest alternatives.
Hand out number 1 fill in the gaps with modal verbs
Hand out number 2 : questions with the highlighted modal verbs.
handout number 3 : read about 4 different situations and detect the problem in each of them. hand out number 4: Write two sentences for each situation using could should shouldn't have
Hand outnumber 5: Talk about your ideas for the situation together. Talk about if you have ever been in a situation and regretted things you've said to a friend, a colleague, a stranger, a teacher or thing's you have done: buying things, education , work, friends and family.
Play track 3.24 for memorisation