MODAL VERBS

Expresan la intensión del hablante

MODAL INTENTION MEANING AFFIRMATIVE NEGATIVE INTERROGATIVE
VERBS
CAN • Expresar S+A+V+C S+A+N’T+V+C A+S+V+C?
habilidad  I can read in English  I can’t speak in English  Can you speak in
PODER
• Expresar  We can listen to music NOTA: Se niega solo al hablar English?
permiso de habilidades.  Can I open the door?
MUST • Expresar S+A+V+C S+A+N’T+V+C A+S+V+C?
obligacion  I must pay attention in class  I mustn’t eat many candys  Must we run in the
personal DEBER  They must study at home  They mustn’t listen to classroom?
music while they study.  Must he act in the
celebrations?
SHOULD • Expresar S+A+V+C S+A+N’T+V+C A+S+V+C?
consejo  You should stay in the classroom  You shouldn’t smoke  Should you go out with
DEBERÍA(S)(N)(MOS)  We should make the exercises in  We shouldn’t go out the her?
class classrooom  Should he comb his
hair?
COULD • Expresar S+A+V+C S+A+N’T+V+C A+S+V+C?
habilidad en el  I could touch my feet  I couldn’t swim  Could you go out the
PODÍA(S)(N)(MOS)
pasado  He could jump 5 meters  He couldn’t ride a bycicle street alone?
 Could he sing?
HAVE TO/ • Expresar S+A+V+C S+A+N’T+MV+V+C A+S+V+C?
HAS TO obligacion  We have study harder  Do we have to keep in
social  She has to pass the exam Do/Does Have to silence in class?
TENER QUE  I don’t have to speak in  Does she have to make
class the
 She doesn’t have to use the recuperation?
cell phone in class
 Now apply your knowledge
1. TRANSLATE THE SENTENCES
A) Yo no puedo hablar en inglés
B) Andrea y yo tenemos que estudiar más.
C) Tú no deberías salirte del salón.
D) Él debe comer más vegetales.
3. CORRECT THE SENTENCES
A ) I go to the bathroom can?
B) must scream we in class?
C) She don`t have to work on Sunday?
D) Alberto could played soccer
6. WRITE THE INTENTIONS OF THE SENTENCES BELOW
A) She must be more organized
B) We should read more
C) We don’t have to arrive late at the classroom
D) We can dance mambo
MODAL VERBS
2. MAKE NEGATIVE SENTENCES
A) I could run 5 meters.
B) She has to speak in class.
C) We must listen to music when we study
D) You should speak with him.
4. ORDER THE SENTENCES
A) must I be kind elder with people
B ) Don’t we have to go class out teacher without the
C) Parentsshe sing day can during
D) You smoke should
5. LINK THE SENTENCES IN A WITH THEIR USES IN B
A B
a) You should be more responsible 1) ability in the past
b) You must eat more vegetables 2) ability in the present
c) You don’t have to smoke 3) suggestion
d) You could eat much ice cream 4) obligation
e) You can read in English 5) personal obligation
 SEXUAL SITUATIONS

YOU ARE GOING TO READ FOUR SITUATIONS ABOUT SEXUAL ACTITUDES. FOR QUESTIONS 1-4, CHOOSE THE
CORRECT ANSWER (A, B, C or D) WHICH YOU THINK FITS BEST ACCORDING TO THE TEXT.

1. Ana stole a box of contraceptivepills from her mother which she began to take, but as she doesn’t know if they could make any damage
to her, because she is 15 years old, she tells to her best friend, who:
a) Suggests her to go to a doctor to ask for orientation.
b) Tells her that not use her mother’s pills but the ones she uses which haven’t made any wrong sign.
c) Advices her that she has to stop taking them and go to a drugstore.
d) Recommend her that not to use them because according to her, in the first sexual relations the probability to get pregnant is minimum.

2. Carlos, 17, has finished the high school and he got a scholarship to the university. 2 days ago, his girlfriend told him that she is one month
of pregnancy, and after they analyzed their situation, they have decided not continues with it, because she can’t neither want it. Carlos is
very worried about it, so he asked for help to his cousin who reacts:
a) For his age, he has to be responsible for his acts.
b) He suggests not try an abort because the girl could die or being sterile.
c) He offers help and he indicates where they can find a special aid according to their decision.
d) He goes with them to a drugstore where sells pills which provoke bleeding.

3. After analyzing and want it for many times, Inesita couldn’t accept the disappointed that she felt in her first sexual relation because of it
was so different from her friends had told her, so she decided:
a) Broken with her boyfriend
b) Ask for information and notice that sexual satisfaction is a process that requires learning
c) Try it again but with her best friend to probe it would be different this time.
d) Do not have coital relations again, because she has a sexual dysfunction.

4. When Martha finished her chemistry homework, she decided to surf in the internet. She opened a page about sexuality without imagining
that she would be impacted by a scene in which a couple were stimulating themselves orally in their genitals, she commented it to her aunt,
who:
a) Explains her that it is a sexual experience that she must learn to practice because men like it a lot.
b) Calls to her sister to cancel the internet service.
c) Suggest that she mustn’t watch that obscenities, because oral sex is a perversion.
d) To make clear that sexual practices are valid if these don’t make any damage in sexual and reproductive rights.

DAILY TROUBLES

1. YOU ARE GOING TO READ FOUR LETTERS FROM TENAGERS ASKING FOR SOME ADVICE.FOR QUESTIONS 1-8, CHOOSE FROM THE
PEOPLE IN THE BOX (A-D).

A Lady B Walter C Andrea D

Pedro
Which person:
1 Consider her/him unattractive?
2 Is acting in a selfish way?
3 Is not being understood by his mother?
4 has acted without thinking?
5 must explain to her mother about her decision?
6 must tell his mother that things change and she has to understand it?
7 should accept him as he is?
8 should tell her friend about her mistakes?
2. CHOOSE THE MOST SUITABLE HEADING FROM THE LIST (A-D) FOR EACH PART
(1-4)

A MY MUSIC B WEIGHT PROBLEM C NOT CHANCE D MY

INDISCRETE FRIEND

1. 2.
I am taking a decision to become vegetarian, but All my childhood I had been listened to Ballads
my problem is that my family loves meat and all music because my mother loves it, but now that I
the meals have some meat. I have tried to say my grew up and I have chosen to listen to reggaeton
mother doesn’t prepare meat but she refuses music which It’s horrible for my mother. She is
doing it because she says that the choice was screaming my all the time, saying me that she is
mine not theirs. going to break my cd’s and punishing me if I go
What do you think I must do it? on listening to it.
Lady, 14 Please tell me what to do?
Walter,15
3. 4.
Luisa, my best friend, is always telling everyone Girls don’t find me attractive, and I think the
my secrets. I’m tired of it, we have taken many reason is that I’m fat. Ever since I was about
discussions but the last time was so hard, that I seven, I been on the chubby side, but it didn’t
decided to break with our friendship. worry me until now. I ‘m quite intelligent
Was right what I did? And I have lots of friends but not the type I like.
Andrea,17 What should I do?
Pedro, 15.