grammatical structures: modals • EO: Take good care of personal belongings
Code: EN5G-Ic-3.6 A.Setting the Stage
Do you still remember what you
used to do when you were small? What are these activities that you used to do? How do you feel when you recall these activities that you used to do? B.Explaining the Students What to Do
Class, we will compose clear and
coherent sentences using appropriate grammatical Structures specifically the modal auxiliaries used to, will and would. • Modals are verbs used with other verbs. They can express a habit. • Used to, would - are used to express a past habit • Will – is used to express a present habit C.Modeling
You are going to read a poem about
what a child used to do and what he always does now THEN AND NOW When I was a child I used to go from place to place Crawling with my hands and feet. I used to play with all my toys Tearing and pulling them apart. Now that I have grown I would go wherever I want Going out with all my friends. I would join all kinds of games • What did the author use to do when he was a child? • What helping verbs were used to describe what he always did when he was small? Read this paragraph
We usually visit my grandparents every Sunday.
Early in the morning on Sundays, mother will prepare some food to take with us. She will cook fish as well as chicken because grandpa likes fish but grandma eats only chicken. • How does mother usually do on Sundays? -Will prepare some food • What helping verb was used to express what mother usually does on Sunday? -will • What do we call these activities that we always do or always did in the past? -habits • How many verbs are used to express these habits? -two • What are the main verbs? -go, play, join, prepare • What do we call these verbs? -auxiliary verbs • In what forms are these auxiliary verbs used? -base forms • What do we call the helping verbs used before the auxiliary verbs? -modals or m0dal auxiliaries • Do the modals remain in the same form or do they follow that the subject is? -They remain in the same form no matter what the subject is. • When do we use the modal used to and would? -To express past habit • When do we use the modal will? -To express present habit • According to the poem, how did the author play with his toys? • Did he take good care of his toys? • As he grow older do you think he still did that to his toys or other belongings? • How about you, do you take good care of your things and other personal belongings? How? • Why should we take good care of our things or personal belongings? • How should we handle borrowed things or the things in school? D.Guided Practice
Let the pupils form four groups. Let each
group form a small circle. Let each member of every group share with the rest of the group members his habit when he/she was small using the modal used to, would and his habit now using the modal will. E.Independent Practice
Give the appropriate modal to complete the sentence.
1. Maria _______ drink milk in a feeding bottle. 2. Now she _______ use a glass whenever she drinks milk. 3. I _______ sleep on my parent’s bed when I was small. 4. She ______ buy her mother a gift on her birthday. 5. They ______ live in Manila in the 1990’s. F.Closure
• What are modals?
• What modals are used to express a past habit? • What modals are used to express a present habit? I. Evaluation