Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yuannan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Heyuan Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language.
This unit teaches about modals, passive voice, relative clauses and phrasal verbs. First, modals are auxiliary verbs that express many different ideas. They can express permission, obligation, request, necessity, ability, assumption, certainty, possibility, preference, and advise. Some of the most common modals are can, should, might, may, must, could, be able to, and would. There are other forms of verbs that are not considered true modals such as have to, need to, and have got to. Second, the passive voice is a sentence where the subject is not the doer of the action; instead, it is acted upon. For example: The snake ate the mouse - this is active voice. The mouse was eaten by the snake - this is passive voice. The passive voice is not frequently used, but it can be used when the doer of the action is not known, important, or we do not want to mention it. The passive voice also has to be used only with transitive verbs (verbs that take an object after it). The third subject in this unit is relative clauses. They describe or identify nouns and need to begin with a relative pronoun like which, that, who, whose, or whom. There are two types of relative clauses: defining and non-defining. The defining relative clause is necessary information that is important to identify or describe a noun. In the non-defining relative clause, on the other hand, the information added is not essential; thus, it can be taken out of the sentence without changing the meaning, so it is necessary to add commas surrounding the clause. Last, there are the phrasal verbs, which are verbs with one or two particles - they could be prepositions or adverbs. Because of the particles, the meanings of the verbs change. These have three kinds: transitive separable, transitive inseparable, and intransitive. Transitive separable phrasal verbs take an object noun after the phrasal verb, and the phrasal verb can be split by the object noun or pronoun, but the object pronoun cannot follow the particle. Transitive inseparable verbs must be together at all times, and the object noun or pronoun follows the phrasal verb. This type can have two particles, an adverb followed by a preposition. Finally, the intransitive phrasal verbs do not take an object after.
