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Teaching "Must" and "Have To" in ESL

This document outlines an English lesson plan for students aged 13-16. The 40-minute lesson aims to teach students how to use the modal verbs "must" and "have to" through activities like a warm-up discussion, watching a video, filling gaps in a worksheet, and playing a job-guessing game. Students will practice producing sentences with these verbs by describing duties of different jobs and discussing obligations at school, home and work. The lesson concludes with a word game for reinforcement and a discussion about future career goals.

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Teaching "Must" and "Have To" in ESL

This document outlines an English lesson plan for students aged 13-16. The 40-minute lesson aims to teach students how to use the modal verbs "must" and "have to" through activities like a warm-up discussion, watching a video, filling gaps in a worksheet, and playing a job-guessing game. Students will practice producing sentences with these verbs by describing duties of different jobs and discussing obligations at school, home and work. The lesson concludes with a word game for reinforcement and a discussion about future career goals.

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  • Materials: Lists the materials required for the lesson such as a computer and internet access.
  • Class Details: Provides an overview of the class including level, topic, age range, number of students, and lesson duration.
  • Learning Objectives: Outlines the specific objectives students should achieve by the end of the lesson, focusing on using 'must' and 'have to' for obligation.
  • Anticipated Problems and Solutions: Discusses potential issues students may face during the lesson and proposes solutions.
  • Assumptions: Details the assumptions about student capabilities and prior knowledge necessary for the lesson.
  • Warm Up: Describes a brief introductory activity to engage students at the start of the lesson.
  • Classroom Activities: Includes detailed explanations of the activities involving practice, production, and plenary components.
  • Homework: Describes a group project where students make posters about classroom rules, reinforcing the lesson's objectives at home.

 Level: A2

CLASS DETAILS  Topic: (Obligation – Necessity)


 Age: 13-16
 Number of Students: 6
 Lesson Duration: 40 minutes

 By the end of te lesson, the students will:


LEARNING  Be able to make sentences with “must” and “have to” (target
OBJECTIVES structure)
 Be able to talk about what they need to do and what they’re
obliged to do.

 Computer, Internet
MATERIALS

 The students can talk about their daily activities, routines


ASSUMPTIONS etc.
 They’ve heard about ‘have to’ and ‘must’ before but they
don’t know the difference between them.

 The students might confuse the grammatical form of ‘must’


ANTICIPATED and ‘have to’. For example, they might say: “I must to wear
PROBLEMS & uniform at school.” Instead of “I must wear uniform at
SOLUTIONS school.” (problem)
 They will be presented with a listening comprehension text
(bbc) and multiple examples so that they’re used to the
grammatical use of ‘must’.
 There will be gap filling and T/F exercises to make sure that
the students have understood the subject well.

 The teacher asks the students to talk about what they have
WARM UP (3-4) to do at school and at home everyday.
 The students are asked to write 5 things that they have to
do everyday. (at school / at homee etc.)
 The teacher writes the answers on the whiteboard.
 + SPEAKING (discussion)

 “Today, we will learn how to talk about things that we need


PRESENT LESSON to do, the rules that we need to follow etc.”
OBJECTIVES (1  “We will also look at different uses of modal verbs ‘have to’
MIN) and ‘must’”
 T: “Let’s watch a video about the modal verbs ‘have to’ and
PRESENTATION (6 ‘must’. Then we have a mini quiz. Listen carefully.”
MINUTES)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUXXgVElADg
 (BBC 6 Minute Grammar ‘must’ ‘have to’) dialogue listening.
 Gap filling + quiz (bbc 6 minutes english exercise) [PP
PRACTICE (10 presentation]
MINUTES)  “Job description” ESL Game (Appendix) – must, don’t have to,
have to, mustn’t
 “Job description” ESL Game (must, have to, mustn’t, don’t
have to)
 The students guess jobs from clues.
 Demonstrate the game with an example.
 Divide the students into pairs!
 Give each pair a set of face-down cards.
 Students shuffle the cards, place them in a pile on the
destk, without looking at them.
 One student goes first, picks up the top card from the pile.
 The student reads out the first clue to their partner.
 The partner listens and guesses what the job could be. If
the answer is incorrect, the student reads the next clue and
so on.
 If the answer is correct, they get the umber of points
indicated next to the clue.
 The two students then swap roles. This continues until all the
cards have been used.
 The student with the most points wins the game.

 The teacher asks the students to think of as many jobs as


PRODUCTION (15 they can. She writes the job titles on the whiteboard.
MIN)  She chooses a student and she/he comes to the front of the
class. She chooses a job but doesn’t tell the other students.
 She makes sentences about what she has to/must do in this
job. For example: ‘nurse’
 I have to wear a uniform.
 After each sentence, she waits for an answer or a question.
 Whoever guesses the job correctly, gets 1 point.
(group game)

 https://wordwall.net/tr/resource/25560298/ingilizce/must-
PLENARY (4-5 MIN) have-to-mustnt
 Dream job? What do you have to do to achieve that?
 What do you have to do? what must you do? (discussion)
 What must you do in a supermarket / shopping mall …?

 https://wordwall.net/tr/resource/32450555/ingilizce/7th-
STANDBY grade-unit-905
ACTIVITIES
 The students will make a poster about rules of the classroom
HOMEWORK (2 (as a group)
MIN)  They will also make a poster and hang it on the walls of their
room at home. (the rules of the bedroom/of the house)

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