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Section A Grammar Focus-4c
To learn to make polite requests and ask permission politely.
To develop your summarizing skills.
To learn new words: pass, borrow, lend, finger, hate, while…
Objectives
A: Mum, could I go out for dinner with
my friends?
B: Sure, that should be OK.
Warming-up
A: Could I get something to drink with
my friends after the movie?
B: Sure, you can.
A: Could I get something to drink with my
friends after the movie?
B: No, you can’t, you have a basketball game
tomorrow.
A: Could you please take the dog for a walk?
B: OK, but I want to watch one show first.
A: Could you please take out the rubbish?
B: Yes, sure.
Could I go out for dinner with my friends?
Sure, that should be OK.
Could we get something to drink after the movie?
No, you can’t, you have a basketball game tomorrow.
Grammar Focus
Could you please take the dog for a walk?
OK, but I want to watch one show first.
Could you please take out the rubbish?
Yes, sure.
只作情态动词的 can / could, may /
might, ought to, must
可情态可实义的 need, dare
可情态可助动词的 shall / should, will /
would
相当于情态动词的 have to, used to
情态动词的用法
情态动词的语法特征
情态动词不能单独做谓语, 除ought和have外, 后面只能接不带to的不定式。
情态动词没有人称, 数的变化, 但有些情态动词, 如can、will也有一般式和过去式的变化。
情态动词的“时态”形式并不是时间区别的主要标志, 不少情况下, 情态动词的现在式形式和过去式形式都可用来表示现在时间、过去时间和将来时间。
can 和could:
1) can的主要用法:
A. 表示体力或脑力的能力:
e.g. The girl can dance very well.
B. 表示说话的推测﹑事物的可能性等:
e.g. Can the news be true?
C. 在口语中, can可以表示请求或允许:
e.g. Can I sit here?
can表示“能够”时与短语be able to同义,但can只用于一般现在时或过去时,而后者可用于各种时态。另外,can表示个人有某种能力,而be able to表示某人通过努力、克服困难做成某事,相当于succeed in doing sth.;叙述过去事实时,最好用was / were able to,因为could只表示过去具有某种能力。
如:
Can you understand the different kinds of English these people are using?
Two years later, he was able to speak very good Chinese.
2) could的主要用法:
A. could 是can的过去式, 表示与过去有关的
能力和推测:
e.g. We all