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.