Friday, April 29th, 2011
Unit 10:
Language Focus
Class 9/1
Unit 10: Life on the other planets
Language focus
GRAMMAR:
I. Modal Verbs: MAY / MIGHT
May/ Might + V- infinitive
- We use may/ might to talk about present or future possibility.
- “Might” is normally a little less sure than “may”.
Exercise 1: Work with a partner. Use “may or might” and talk about Andy’s presents
a. book/game
- It may be a book or it might be a game.
b. box of crayons/box of paints
c. football / basketball
d. boat / train
e. flying saucer / meteor
f. evening star / spacecraft
a. It may be a book or it might be a game.
b. It may be a box of crayons or it might be a box of paints.
c. It may be a football or it might be a basketball.
d. It may be a boat or it might be a train.
e. It may be a flying saucer or it might be a meteor.
f. It may be an evening star or it might be a spacecraft.
Give the uncertain answers to these questions
1. Where is Linh today? (home)
She may / might be at home.
2. Where is Ba now? (dentist)
3. Where will Hoa be tomorrow. (school library)
4. What time does the Ha Noi - Ho Chi Minh train leave? (11.30 pm)
5. What time does the train leave? (midnight)
6. What is Nam doing at the moment? (practice singing)
7. What does Linh have for breakfast? (bread and a fried egg)
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He may/ might at he dentist
She may/ might in the school library.
It may/ might leave at 11:30.
It may leave at midnight
He may/might practice
She may/might have bread and a fried egg.
II. Conditional sentence type I
Ex: If you study hard, you will pass the exam.
If - clause
Main - clause
It can be used to describe situations and consequences that are possible in the present or future
Exercise 2. match each half sentence in A with a suitable one in B
Ex: If it rains this evening, I won’t go out
complete the sentences with the correct form of verbs
Ex: I (visit) My dinh Stadium, if I (go) Ha noi
=> I will visit My dinh stadium, if I go to Ha noi
a. Lan (go) Dam Hong high school if she (pass) the final exam
Lan will go to Dam hong high school, if she passes the final exam
b. If Nam (have) lots of money he (buy) a new bike
=> If Nam has lots of money he will buy a new bike
Complete the conditional sentences, using the cues in brackets
1. If you throw trash around, .................................................
2. If the sea is polluted, .......................................................
3. They will not use dynamite to catch fish if ..................................
4. If the plan is put into action, .......................................................
5. If the water is polluted, ...............................................................
6. We will save a lot of trees if .......................................................
7. If wild animals are kept in preserves, .........................................
(the school yard / become a dump)
(sea creatures / die)
(heavily fined)
(we / able / cope / problems)
(do harm / people’s health)
(not / waste paper)
(we / prevent / being endangered)
The school yard will become a dump
The sea creature will die.
They are fined heavily
We will able to cope the problem.
It will do harm for people’s heath.
If we don’t waste paper.
.we will prevent them from being damaged
V. Home work
- Do exercises in the work book
- Revise all the lessons
Goodbye!