When I met with Rashida this week, I brought the sheet with
modal verb definitions that I had forgotten the week before. I had found some
exercises that practiced the modal verbs: can and could, want and would, ought
and should, must and have to, etc. This worksheet was really good but I should
have looked over it closely. It was clearly a British English worksheet and I
didn’t anticipate the difficulty of answering questions that Rashida had about
the correct modal verb to use when we encountered a grammatical difference
between what would be said in England and what would be said in the States. She
got through 3 of the worksheets and kept the last one to work on in her own
time. It really helped our communication to work more on modal verbs. I didn’t
realize how much I use them in conversation until we started to meet for
tutoring and Rashida couldn’t understand me.
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