Must or Have to?
Elementary students are taught that there is very little difference between the words MUST and HAVE TO. Little as it may be, it exists. And in this post I would …
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Speaking Activities to Practise MUST and Past Continuous
Recently I have spent quite a lot of time designing various speaking activities for my students. In this post I would like to share two speaking activities which help students …
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Modal verb CAN
In my opinion the modal verb CAN is one of the easiest grammar points in English to teach. That is why I have not produced a post on this topic …
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Modal verbs of deduction
The greatest thing that can happen to a teacher is the aha! moment when suddenly the students get it. And this happened to me on Thursday. I was teaching the …
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Modal verbs – have to and don’t have to
Recently I have been dealing with the modal verbs. First I created a mind map depicting all the modals in present and past tenses. That post was suitable for intemediate …
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Must and Should for beginners
This post deals only with the basic usage of the modal verbs SHOULD and MUST. I have recently written a post on Modal verbs. This post was aimed at intermediate …
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Modal verbs in present and past tenses
Students usually understand the usage of the modals in present tense very quickly. However, when they start speaking about the past, they use the present tense or some non-existent forms, …
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