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1. Modal Verb function Examples
Will Asking Will you go to school?
Would Requesting Would you give me a table-tennis ball?
Shall Asking Shall I do the work?
Should Suggestion You should work hard.
Can Ability He can drive a car.
Could Ability/ requesting He could do the sum.
Could you help me to do the sum?
May Possibility/permission/prayer He may come here today.
May I come in?
May you live long.
Might Possibility/suggestion His statement might be true.
You might go to France for training.
Must Certainty/obligation It must be good.
You must`t do this.
You must obey your teachers.
Mustn`t Prohibition You must not (must`t) run in the sun.
Need Necessity He need not go there.
Needn`t Negation I need not (need`t) want a book now.
Dare Bold assertion/daring courage I dare say you are a fool.

2. He dares to stand alone.
Daren`t Afraid to do I dare not (Daren`t) follow you.
He dare not (Daren`t) do it.
Ought (to) Moral obligation/suggestion We ought to love neighbors.
This is really a good film; you ought to see it.
Used (to) habit He used to walk early in the morning.

 The SLO is achieved in two lessons. In this lesson ‘should’ and ‘shouldn`t’ will be focused.
Material/Resources
Writing board, chalk/marker, textbook
Introduction
Note:
 The students studied the use of should/should not in grade 4. Therefore, revise the concept in the introduction.
 Write a sentence on the writing board using “should”. E.g. students should speak English in the classroom.
 Ask the students when should is used. If they give correct answer, Reinforce the use of should and should not with the help of examples
written on a chart paper.
Development
Activity 1
 Ask the students to take out their notebooks.
 Write the following sentences on the writing board and tell the class to fill in the blanks with should or should n`t.
1. You _____________________ be selfish. (Should n`t)

3. 2. I don’t think you ______________ smoke. (Should)
3. You are overweight. You ___________________ go on a balanced diet. (Should)
4. The kids’ _____________________spend so much time in front of the television, (Should n`t)
5. I think we ____________________ reserve our holidays in advance. (Should)
6. Mehk ___________________________eat so many lollipops, It`s bad for our teeth. (Should n`t)
7. They have a test tomorrow. They __________________ go to cinema. (Should n`t)
8. What _____________I wear I have a party tonight? (Should)
9. You ______________ speak to your mother like this. (Should n`t)
10. Where _____________________ we park our car?
 Guide the students wherein they need help.
Activity 2
 Write ‘Playground Rules’ on the writing board.
 Tell students to think and tell some playground rules. They must use ‘should’ and ‘should n`t’ in each rule.
 Write one rule on the writing board for students` understanding. E.g. playground should be used by students to play.
 Write rules on the writing board after taking their feedback.
 Provide students with vocabulary where they need.
 Tell the students to write in their notebooks the ‘Playground Rules’.
 The teacher can devise classroom rules with students using should or should not.
Sum up / Conclusion
 Quickly revise with the students the situations in which should/should not is used.

4. Assessment
 Assess students` ability to demonstrate use of should /should not through their correct responses during introductions
 Assess students` ability to use should/should not through the correct answers given in the activity 1 and the language produced during
the activity 2.
 Give students a written test in which they have to write five classroom rules for good behavior.
 Find the exercise related to the topic in the textbook.
 Students must do this exercise in the notebook or on the textbook.
Follow up
 Write on the writing board ‘What should we do? ‘And ‘What should we not do?
 To keep our house clean, tell the students to write three suggestions on: What should we do to keep our house clean?”
 Tell them to write two sentences on what they should not do to keep their house clean.