Sunday 25 November 2012

Modals are essential?

Again. New activities. New everything? Okay. Perhaps so. What now? Modals. What are modals? Modals are special verbs which behave very irregularly in English language (I second that). How many types are there basically? Well, if it isn't lucky number 5! And what are there exactly? Oh, here they are:

  1. Certainty
  2. Probability
  3. Possibility
  4. Doubt
  5. Impossibility


The head doesn't look really appetizing doesn't it? Well, trust me. It is not. At first. But as the lesson progresses, it was a lot of fun. We did sorts of fun "activities" on modals like listening to "It Will Rain" by Bruno Mars and figure out some part of the lyrics with modals and later change the modals from the lyrics into something more interesting. Like changing the whole meaning of the song!


And then there would be this thingy where we have to use modals to describe about our future. Well, something like that. I can't really recall. But whatever it is, this modals can be pretty annoying since it can change the original meaning to a whole lot of another meaning if the modals were not use correctly!
But it is something to learn in the process. Cheers!

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