Unit 11 - 11b - Should - Shouldn't
Unit 11 - 11b - Should - Shouldn't
Unit 11 - 11b - Should - Shouldn't
Presentation
Use should for strong advice. Should is a modal verb. This means:
• No third–person s
Affirmative and negative
Say He should do it. (Don’t say He shoulds do it.)
should
I / You / He / She / It / We / They buy that dress.
• No auxiliary do
shouldn’t Say You shouldn’t do it.
(Don’t say You don’t should do it.)
Yes/No questions Wh- questions • No past tense
Should I buy that dress? What should I do? (Don’t say You shoulded do it.)
• No to before the verb
Short answers
Say You should do it. (Don’t say You should to do it.)
Yes, you should. No, you shouldn’t.
Key vocabulary Adjectives: awful, beautiful, great, horrible, terrible, terrific, ugly
Exercises
1 Comment on the advice. Use That’s true / not true and shouldn’t.
1 You should smoke. That’s not true. You shouldn’t smoke.
2 That’s true.
3 You should eat healthy food. That’s true.
That’s not true. You shouldn’t drink a lot of coffee.
4 You should drink a lot of coffee.
That’s not true. You shouldn’t work twelve hours a day.
5 You should work twelve hours a day.
6 You shouldn’t go on vacation. That’s not true. You should go on vacation.
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