"Could you please clean your room?" PPT courseware 5

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"Could you please clean your room?" PPT courseware 5

Tutorial exercises: Please observe the sentences and analyze the meaning of modal verbs

1.Can I use your pen?----Yes, you can./No, you can’t.

2.May I come in, please? ----Yes, you can./No, you can’t.

3.Could I go out for dinner with my friends?---Yes, you can./No, you can’t.

Modal verbs: usage of Can, May, Could

1. Common points: all three can express requests and permissions. It means: "………………is it okay?"

2. Differences: CAN means request or permission. It is mostly used in spoken language, meaning "can, can", etc.

Such as: Can I help you?

May means "permission, permission, request for permission", which is synonymous with can and can be used interchangeably.

For example: May I use your ruler?

Sure ,/Certianly . /Yes , please.

No, you mustn’t /No, you can’t.

Note: A negative answer cannot be said as No, you may not.

Several other uses of Could:

1.Could is the past tense of can, indicating past ability.

2. To express surprise, doubt, disbelief and other attitudes, it is mainly used in negative sentences or questions. At this time, there is no time difference between could and can, but the tone is gentler and the emotion is weaker than can.

3. Indicates possibility, only some possible speculation about the future, the present and the past.

4. Used in subjunctive mood.

Work on and work out

Work on is using… engaged in…

I’m going to work on it now.

Work out, work out

He worked on the maths problem last night, but didn’t work it out.

3b Read the sentences. Underline the sentences from the reading the the same thing.

1 Neither of us did any housework for a week.

=For one week, she didn’t do any housework and neither did I.

2 My mom came over as soon as I sat down in front of the TV.

=The minute I sat down in front of the TV, my mom came over.

3 You ‘re tired ,but I’m tired ,too.

= I’m just as tired as you are.

Compare the following phrases

1. To one’s surprise To one’s surprise

To Mr Li’s surprise, his students found the key on time.

2. Be surprised

I was surprised when I heard the surprising news.

3. In surprise

He looked at me in surprise.

2a Discuss the questions with your partner.

1. What do you often do to help your parents at home?

2. Do you think kids should help out with chores at home?

2b The Sunday Mail magazine invited parents to write about whether they think young people should do chores at home. Skim the following letters. Which one agrees and which one disagrees?

Answer the questions.

1. What is Ms. Miller’s opinion?

She thinks doing chores is parents’ job.

2. What is Mr. Smith’s opinion?

He thinks it’s important for children to do chores and help their parents with housework.

Read the letters again and finish the following tasks.

I. Complete the sentences with any number of words in each blank.

1. Ms. Miller thinks children should spend their time on schoolwork in order to____________________.

2. Mr. Smith thinks these days children depend on _______________________.

II. Determine True (T) or False (F).

( )3. Ms. Miller thinks doing chores is not difficult.

( )4. Mr. Smith’s neighbors’son looked after himself well during his first year in the college.

1. It is the parents’ job to provide a clean and comfortable environment at home for their children.

The pronoun it here is only the formal subject, and the real subject is to provide ... for their children. We can also regard It is one’s job (duty, …) to do something. as a fixed sentence pattern, which means “it is someone’s job (duty, etc.) to do something”. like:

2. And anyway, I think doing chores is not so difficult.

Anyway, I think it’s not difficult to do some housework.

Anyway is an adverb. If it is at the beginning of a sentence, it is often followed by a comma to separate it from the rest of the sentence. The function of anyway in this sentence is to add a comment, which is equivalent to "anyway; still; still" in Chinese. like:

3. ill & sick

◆Same points

Both ill and sick can mean "sick" and can be used as predicatives. like:

Alice was ill / sick yesterday.

◆Differences

When it means "sick", sick can be used as an attributive, but ill usually is not used as an attributive. like:

Could you help the sick girl?

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