This task is about using verbs and modal verbs in different ways. We all know that people can be direct or indirect in the ways they phrase things. We often use commands to give instructions, but sometimes these might be seen as too direct and blunt. We sometimes soften them with modal verbs, among other tools.
Explain that the word polysemy refers to the idea that words can have more than one meaning.
Ask the learners to think of more than one meaning for the words football and mouse and discuss with a partner or small group. Show the next slide to reveal some possible answers.
As an extension, see if learners can come up with any other words with multiple meanings.
Prepositions are particularly important when trying to communicate instructions about time and place.
The Activity page appears in the menu entitled 'This Unit' in the upper right corner of this page. The Activity page contains one slide: an example of instructional writing from our corpus. You can see that quite precise instructions are given as part of a recipe. It is reprinted below with the prepositions highlighted.
To learn and practise the spelling rules associated with base words ending in 'y' when endings (suffixes) are added.
Lesson plan
The lesson is divided into a series of activities where students
group words according to whether they keep the final 'y' of the base word when a suffix is added, or change 'y' to 'i'. For each set of examples, students are
asked to identify and make predictions about the patterns for this area
of spelling.
To learn and practise the spelling rules associated with base words ending in 'e' when endings (suffixes) are added.
Lesson plan
The lesson is divided into a series of activities where students
group words according to whether they drop or keep the final 'e' of the
base word when a suffix is added. For each set of examples, students are
asked to identify and make predictions about the patterns for this area
of spelling.
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