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Unit 1
Festivals Around the World
Lesson 3 Grammar
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Warming Up

• Answer the following questions according to the
  reading passage.
• What would most ancient festivals celebrate?
• They would celebrate the end of cold weather,
  planting in spring and harvest in autumn.
• What should Japanese people do in Obon?
• They should go to clean graves and light incense
  in memory of their ancestors.

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Warming Up

• Why do they light lamps and play music?
• Because they think this will lead the ancestors
  back to earth.
• What can children do in Halloween?
• They can dress up and go to their neighbours
  homes to ask for sweets.
• What might they do if the neighbours do not give
  any sweets?
• They might play a trick on their neighbours.

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Task of Period 3

• Learn to describe a festival, using model verbs.
• Finish an introduction to the festival you
  advertise.

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Lead-in

• What purpose is each model verb used for?
• They would celebrate the end of cold weather,
  planting in spring and harvest in autumn.
• They should go to clean graves and light incense
  in memory of their ancestors.
• Because they think this will lead the ancestors
  back to earth.
• They can dress up and go to their neighbours
  homes to ask for sweets.
• They might play a trick on their neighbours.

past habit
advice
prediction
permission
possibility
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Lead-in

• Do Ex.1 on Page 43, and fill in the blanks with
  the suggested words in the box.

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Grammar Learning

• Find the sentences in the reading passage that
  use model verbs.
• Underline them and explain the meaning to your
  partner.

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Grammar Learning
Read the sentences in Ex.2 on Page 5 and discuss
with a partner how each of these model verbs is
being used in the situations.
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Grammar Learning

• can/could
• ability, permission, possibility, request
• may/might
• permission, request, possibility
• will/would
• promise, prediction, past habit, request

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Grammar Learning

• shall/should
• promise, advice, prediction
• must/cant
• advice, necessity, guessing

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Grammar Learning

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• Can you show me the way ?
• Could you show me the way ?
• May we see the rewards ?
• Might we see the rewards ?
• I wondered if we might see the rewards?
• Will you join us for dinner?
• Would you join us for dinner?
• Would you like to join us for dinner?

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Grammar Learning

• can/could or be able to
• I could swim before I was there.
• A man was able to swim out to the girl and save
  her.
• may be or maybe
• I may be late this evening.
• Maybe we should do it tomorrow.

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Grammar Learning

• can/could or may
• Can is used in standard spoken English when
  asking for permission.
• Could is slightly more formal.
• Both of these are acceptable in most forms of
  written English, although in very formal writing,
  such as official instructions, may is usually
  instead.
• Eg. Persons under 14 unaccompanied by an adult
  may not enter.

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Grammar Learning

• shall or will
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• You shall be punished if this ever happens again.

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Grammar Learning

• must or had to
• Im going to Hong Kong this evening and I must
  remember to take my passport with me.
• Vincent could not come because he had to go to
  Beijing.

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Grammar Practising

• Complete each of the following sentences using
  one of the modal verbs provided. There are
  several different possibilities. (Ex.2, P43)

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Grammar Consolidating

• Ex.3, P43
• Ex.3, P5

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Task of Period 3

• Learn to describe a festival, using model verbs.
• Finish an introduction to the festival you
  advertise.

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Homework
Study the grammar of Model Verbs (Appendices,
P89-91) for further and clearer understanding.
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