Objective: Students will be able to identify and explain the purpose of helping verbs.
Materials: -Word list -Example sentences
Introduce the topic of helping verbs by explaining that their job is to help the main verb in a sentence to express tense or mood.
Activity 1: Have students individually read the word list and identify the helping verbs.
Word List: 1. will 2. would 3. may 4. might 5. can 6. could 7. shall 8. should 9. must 10. ought
Activity 2: Have students make sentences to illustrate the use of helping verbs with the main verb. For example:
I could run the marathon.
Activity 3: Ask students to explain the purpose of each helping verb in their example sentences. For example:
In the sentence “I could run the marathon,” the helping verb could indicates possibility.