- Practical English (p.32) - Permission, Requests and Suggestions
Some examples -
. Would you mind helping me?
. Could you help me?
. Can you help me?
. Do you think you could help me?
. Please, help me
- Oral practice in pairs: making requests and answering to them
- Extra grammar point: so and such (copy)
. they are used to show emphasis; we would translate them as 'tant / tanto'
so + adjective/adverb: It's so beautiful!
such + (a/an) + adjective + noun: It's such a beautiful view!
(be careful; with uncountable nouns we never use the singular article)
- Vocabulary and speaking: new technologies and mobile phone questionnaire.
Useful vocabulary: dial, text, hung up, call back, ring tone, voice mail.
- Listening practice: bad and good manners when using a mobile in a public place (p. 37)
- Grammar point: Modals of obligation, lack of obligation, prohibition and advice (p. 134)
. to express obligation: have to + infinitive; must + infinitive
. to express lack of obligation: don't have to + infinitive
. to express prohibition: mustn't + infinitive
. to express advice: should/shouldn't + infinitive / ought to + infinitive
Some important points to remember:
- "must" can never be used in the past
- "don't have to" and "mustn't" are completely different - don't have to implies that "you don't need to do it, but if you want you can" and "mustn't" implies prohibition (it is not allowed)
- Practice: activities in 3A a and b
- Oral practice in fours: Are they true? - obligation, lack of obligation, prohibition and advice around the world
