MODAL VERBS

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  DEFINICIÓN: Los verbos modales son verbos diferentes al resto de los verbos. Tienen una serie de características especiales. Estos verbos pueden expresar: obligación, necesidad, prohibición, ausencia de necesidad, probabilidad, posibilidad, habilidad…
  
  
• CARACTERÍSTICAS:
  • Son verbos incompletos. No tienen participio ni infinitivo, y necesitan otros verbos para completar su conjugación: CAN se completa con la perífrasis BE ABLE TO, MUST con HAVE TO, etc.
  • No llevan -S en la 3ª persona singular del presente simple, excepto HAVE TO (HAS TO)
  • Todos van seguidos de otro verbo en infinitivo sin TO, excepto OUGHT TO, HAVE TO y NEED TO.
  • Como no necesitan verbo auxiliar, construyen la interrogativa invirtiendo el orden del sujeto y el verbo, y la negativa añadiendo NOT. ¡¡OJO!! CANNOT
    
    
    

CAN/SHOULD/MUST

MUST/HAVE TO

EXERCISES

EXERCISES

QUIZ

REMEMBER THE TITANS

1. What year was it when T.C. Williams High School was created? 

2. What day does the team leave for football camp at Gettysburg College?

3. Ronny Bass joins the team during the camp at Gettysburg. What nickname does the team give him and why? 

4. Does Sheryl approve of Coach Boone's football camp? 

5. What happens on the first day of school? 

6. Before the first game of the season, Coach Boone tell the team that they are already winners. Why does he believe this? 

7. When Gerry tells his mother he plans to go play basketball with Julius, he tells him not to go. Gerry tells his mother she should just get to know Julius. His mother replies, "I don't want to get to know him."  This conversation between Gerry and his mom expresses one of the themes of the movie (theme="lesson"). What is this theme? 

8. How does "Sunshine" prove that he can do a good job as the substitute quarterback? 

9. Why does Yoast do that causes him to lose the nomination to the Virginia High School Football Hall of Fame? 

10. Why does Gerry end up in the hospital?

11. How did playing football help the students overcome their prejudices about each other? 

12. How did the football team at T.C. Williams help the adults in the community overcome their prejudices? 

13. Why does the movie begin and end with a funeral scene?

QUIZ

BOOKS IN BRITISH HISTORY

Frankenstein.

Written by Mary Shelley in 1818, uses elements of the Gothic novel and Romantic movement. Frankenstein's chilling tale suggests modern organ transplants, tissue regeneration, that remind readers of the moral issues raised by today's medicine.

The Last Man

It´s the other famous novel of Mary Shelley, being identified as the first work of modern apocalyptic fiction.

The Vampyre.

Written by John William Polidori in 1819. It created the literary vampire genre. Making Varney the Vampire, who has fangs, leaves two puncture wounds on the neck of his victims, has hypnotic powers, superhuman strength, and was also the first example of the “sympathetic vampire”, who loathes his condition but is a slave to it.

  Author: Isabel Vivar 3ºB