Unit 6 Me, Myself and my Future Job
Lesson 1 Talking about Jobs and Careers
Reading texts
Vocabulary Exercise
Grammar
Modal Verbs: can / should / may
Modal verbs (ελλειπτικά ρήματα) είναι ρήματα που δεν σχηματίζουν όλους τους χρόνους.
- Τα περισσότερα ακολουθούνται από απαρέμφατο χωρίς “tο”
- Σχηματίζουν την ερώτηση και την άρνηση χωρίς βοηθητικό ρήμα
- Είναι ίδια σε όλα τα πρόσωπα ενικού και πληθυντικού αριθμού.
Can is used to express: ability, possibility and permission (informal)
e.g. I can swim. (Ability)
e.g. Wild animals can be dangerous. (Possibility)
e.g. You can wear my jacket. (Permission)
May is used to express possibility, permission (and polite request)
e.g. It may rain today. (Possibility)
e.g. You may open the window. (Permission)
e.g. May I go to the bathroom? (Polite request)
Should is used to express advice
e.g. We should all eat healthy food and avoid junk food
Exercise
Exercise
Future tenses
Be going to (am/is/are + going to)
- We use «Be going to» to talk about what we plan or intend to do but no arrangements have been made. So, the action is not as certain to happen as it is with the Present Continuous where arrangements for the action have been made.
Example:
I’m going to visit my relatives in America next year.
(The date of travel has not been decided or arranged nor have I bought my flight ticket yet.)
Example:
– What are you going to do to save the planet? (What do you intend to do?)
– I am going to reduce my rubbish and recycle.
- We also use «be going to» to make a prediction based on what we can see or what we know
Example:
Look at those clouds! It’s going to rain!
(Prediction based on what we can see)
Future Simple “will”
(Appendix page 154)
Form:
I will play Will I play? I will not (won’t) play
We have learned in 5th class that we use the Future Simple tense
- when we make a general prediction and we can use verbs like think, believe etc. :
e.g. The weather tomorrow will be warm and sunny.
e.g. I don’t think they will win.
- when we decide to do something at the time of speaking:
e.g. – I will bring the drinks!
– O.K! I will bring the food.
We now learn that we also use the Future Simple tense to express: prediction, offer, promise, warning, threat, on – the – spot decision and request
Uses:
We use the Future Simple tense to show:
- Prediction
e.g. It will rain tomorrow
- Offer
e.g. I will bring it for you!
- Promise
e.g. I will bring you a souvenir from Paris when I return.
- Warning / Threat
e.g. You will get hit by a car if you don’t look before you cross the road.
e.g. If you don’t study for the test, I will not let you go to the party.
- On the spot decision
e.g. – There’s no bread left.
– I’ll go and buy some.
- Request
e.g. Will you bring me a glass of water, please?
