Modals Lessons

This pair practice worksheet is great for lower levels. Does anyone in your class have a special skill? Students need to predict their partner's abilities, and then find out the actual answer using a 'can' question.

This business-English worksheet helps students with the language used when making requests.

Target Language:

Would you mind... Could you... I'd be grateful if you'd...

'The Business Trip' has conversation, discussion, role-play and more. With nine different exercises, it's a great way to improve your students' control of the language used to make requests.

Extensive practice of a multitude of situations. Easy to teach...and it always goes down well. Deals with apologising, offering, breaking bad news...and more.

This kind of worksheet is great for Business-English students: they'll need it if they ever meet English-speaking clients. (Tell them that too!)

Get your students speculating with this conversation-based worksheet. By the end of this lesson, your students will be able to use must / can't / might to express certainty. e.g. He must be stuck in traffic. / He can't have forgotten etc. It's a really important use of these modal verbs - and it takes students time to learn to use them fluently. This worksheet has a conversation based around some friends waiting for someone in a restaurant. There are lots of follow-up exercises to help your students with the target language. The worksheet rounds off with a role-play.

This worksheets looks at some common language used when talking about rules. The language studied includes: * have to * have got to * (not) be allowed to * be supposed to The theme is schooldays, with three people giving their stories. There's a short reading, with practice exercises and lots of opportunities for your students to tell each other their memories!

This is a great worksheet for talking about regrets, and giving advice. The structures are: "You shouldn't have" and "I wouldn't have". There's a conversation, practice exercises and a card-based speaking activity. It's great for intermediate-level students.

This two-page worksheet takes crime as the theme of the lesson. There's been a murder. What might have happened? There is a warm-up, a conversation, a grammar quiz, and speaking exercises. This worksheet is great for improving your students' speculation skills. They will quickly become comfortable with 'He must have', 'can't have' and other such phrases.

This business-English worksheet is a great way to teach 'have to' and 'don't have to'. In addition, there are lots of common business expressions and vocabulary for your students. There's a conversation, practice activities and plenty of speaking activities. It's great for lower-level students.