Presentation :

• Making recommendations for changes.
  "How can we 'soften' our advice in order to seem less bossy?"
  + Interactive quiz
  (BBC)

• Expressing uncertainty
  - with an activity : interactive or to print
  (BBC)

• Les Modaux au présent.- Présentation et activités interactives (Ac. Clermont)

• Les modaux (e-anglais.com) :
  - Généralités avec un tableau : Modal / Nature / Contraire / exemples
  - Détails
  avec un exercice interactif

• An In-depth Look at Modals used in the Present and the Future (telus.net)

• Modals in the Past (telus.net)

• Use of Modal Auxiliaries - a chart (ccc.commnet.edu)
  Present & Future / Past / Past Unreal / Examples

• Les modaux (cla.uniss.it) :
  Ability - Advice - Assumption Command - Deduction - Habits - Invitation - Obligation -
  Permission - Possibility - Request - Suggestion
  - with interactive exercises

• Eventuality modals - Past / Present / Future (languagelearningresourcecenter.org)

  

Listening :

• Advice and Obligation - Animation + Quiz (British Council)

  

INTERACTIVE exercises :

• Expressing uncertainty
  - with an activity : interactive or to print
  (BBC)

• Les Modaux au présent. - Présentation et activités interactives (Ac. Clermont)

• Révision des modaux. - 8 pages d exercices (Rodolphe Maurel - Ac. Toulouse)
  - mots à remettre dans l ordre ou phrases à écrire.
  
  
  
• Conditionals and Modals - an interactive quiz (BBC)

• Modals - interactive quiz (a4esl.org)

• Les modaux (cla.uniss.it) :
  Ability - Advice - Assumption Command - Deduction - Habits - Invitation - Obligation -
  Permission - Possibility - Request - Suggestion
  - with interactive exercises
  
  
  

• Listening comprehension (modal verbs) - (Michel Barbot)
  "6 different modal verbs (or modal forms) can be heard in this excerpt from the Starwars soundtrack.
  Play the audio file (as many times as you need), identify the modal verbs and type them in the boxes."
  (Michel Barbot)
  
  

• Modals & Auxiliary Verbs : CAN / COULD/ HAVE TO / MUST / WOULD
  (English Zone)

• Certainty - (sitasima)
  "Transformez les phrases en utilisant :
  MUST / CAN'T pour exprimer la certitude,
  MIGHT / COULD pour exprimer la probabilité." (+ photo)
  
  
  
  

• Modaux (British Council)
  
  
  
  

• Comprendre les panneaux - Utilisation des modaux (G. Wulles)
  
  

• It's strictly forbidden to / You may not / It's prohibited to : An interactive program
  (absolutenglish-972)
  
  
  
  
  

Exercises TO PRINT :

• Expressing uncertainty
  - with an activity : interactive or to print
  (BBC)

• The Modals - a worksheet (acobas.net)
  
  

• Driving and The Highway Code ( pdf) - UPDATED
  utilisation de :"should, shouldn't, must, mustn't, have to, don't have to."
  (onestopenglish)
  
  

• A Question of Sport (kentschoolofenglish)
  - exercises with certain modal verbs and the vocabulary of sport
  to play / to go / to do

Stories / News :

• RCMP investigate possible threat to athletes at Whistler
  "The Mounties should not have publicized the possible threat...
  There could be something...
  Security forces would be acutely sensitive to any potential threat against an athletes village in the Olympics...
  Prof. Byers said he could not speculate who the target of a threat might be...
  Police may have helped reduce fears of terrorism...
  People may have noticed when the police were searching."
  (ctvolympics.ca)

• Kate at the Zoo - a Flash story - utilisation de 'would', 'could', 'might' (primaryresources.co.uk)
  
  

Poems :

• What a poem's not
  "A poem is not a Coat
  but it may have some warmth in it.
  A poem is not a Dog
  but it might be quite a friend.
  A poem is not an Endless pair of trousers
  but it can be quite long... "
  (BBC)

Cartoons :

Games to print :

• MUST - MUSTN’T - CAN - SHOULD

  Practise the modals MUST - MUSTN’T - CAN - SHOULD with the following game!
  Created by Laurence Haquet (Ac. Rouen)
  Laurence précise :
  "Le jeu ne marche pas sous Mozilla Firefox
  (sinon les pions se remettent à leur emplacement initial dès qu'on tire une carte! C'est une histoire de scripts)."

  

   

• Giving Advice Game
  should / ought to / you'd better / can
  (esltower.com)

  

• Ought to & Should - explication en français et exemples (e-anglais.com)

INTERACTIVE exercises :

• Zero conditionals - (British Council)
  
  

• WOULD vs. MAY - examples + interactive quiz (english-zone.com)

Exercises TO PRINT :

• Conditionnel - What would you do if... ? (bogglesworldesl.com) - to print

Conversation Questions :

• Would you ever... ? (iteslj)

• What if...? (iteslj)

Songs :

• Viva La Vida sung by Coldplay - Official video (YouTube)
  - with LYRICS on the right of the video :
  "I used to rule the world
  Seas would rise when I gave the word...
  Sweep the streets I used to own
  I used to roll the dice...
  Listen as the crowd would sing..."

• Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) by Nancy Sinatra :
  "I was five and he was six
  we rode on horses made of sticks
  he wore black and i wore white
  he would always win the fight...
  we used to play bang bang i shot you down bang...
  i used to shoot you down
  music played and people sang..."
  - the Video (YouTube)

• Son of a preacher man by Dusty Springfield :
  "That's when billy would take me walkin'
  A-through the back yard we'd go walkin'
  Then he'd look into my eyes..."
  

 

• Cocoon - "On My Way" - the lyrics
  "I am such a coward
  I could win an award
  You may not believe me
  But it would be ok
  (lyricsmania.com)
  - the VIDEO (YouTube)

• Chasing Pavements sung by Adele
  "Should I give up
  or should I just keep chasing pavements...
  or would it be a waste
  even if I knew my place should I leave it there."
  (metrolyrics.com)
  - the VIDEO (YouTube) - UPDATED

• THE HIGHWAY CODE - a song
  "A marching body on the road should keep on the left-hand side
  It should have look-outs at suitable distances at the front and rear
  And at night they should carry lights...
  When you have stepped off the kerb onto a Zebra Crossing
  Which must have black and white stripes...
  But allow approaching vehicles ample time to give way...
  Do not get on or off a bus or tram while it is moving..."
  (lyricsplayground.com)
  
  

• On the road again :
  "Just can't wait to get on the road again...
  Seein' things that I may never see again"

• 7 Seconds by Youssou N'Dour :
  "There's a million voices
  To tell you what she should be thinking
  so you better sober up for a second"

• All You Need Is Love by The Beatles :
  "There's nothing you can do that can't be done.
  Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
  Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game
  It's easy.
  There's nothing you can make that can't be made.
  No one you can save that can't be saved."

• Amazing by George Michael :
  "I was stitched up by the hands of fate...
  I was going down for the third time
  My heart was broken, I was not open to your suggestions
  I had so many questions...
  I think you should celebrate..."

• Boredom - Procol Harum :
  "Some say they will and some say they won t
  Some say they do and some say they don t
  Some say they shall and some say they shan t
  And some say they can and some say they can t..."

• Would (PAST) :
  Bus Stop by Hollies :
  "Every morning I'd see her waiting at the stop..."

• Come What May by Air Supply

• Elusive Butterfly by Lind Bob (+ might / might have) :
  "It's only me pursuing somethin' I'm not sure of
  Across my dreams with nets of wonder
  I chase the bright elusive butterfly of love..."

• Grace Kelly by Mika :
  'I could be brown...
  Should I bend over?

• Heartbreaker By Dionne Warwick :
  "You got me cryin' Like
  I thought I would never be...
  How can I love you...
  Love should be everything or not at all...
  I could be searchin' my world...
  When will we meet again...
  Why do you have to be a heartbreaker..."

• HERE WITH ME by Dido

• I can play basketball (onestopenglish.com) - UPDATED
  - Download MP3 and script

• "I have to ... I can!"
  "Listen to the song ..., click the answers and see what score you got!"
  (genkienglish.net)

  

• In the year 2525 by Zager and Evans :
  "If woman can survive
  They may thrive...
  In the year 4545
  Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
  You won't find a thing to chew
  Nobody's gonna look at you...
  If God's a-comin' he ought to make it by then
  Maybe he'll look around himself..."

• It Should Have Been Me by Andreas Johnson :
  "When the ring is on your finger, and he wants you to get undressed
  Will you fall into his arms, will you set his spirit free, will he ever get to know...
  It should have been me..."

• Leaving New York by R.E.M. :
  "You might have laughed if I told you
  You might have hidden a frown
  You might have succeeded in changing me
  I might have been turned around...
  I might have lived my life in a dream"

• Lonely Day by System of a Down :
  "Such a lonely day
  Should be banned
  It s a day that I can't stand...
  Such a lonely day
  Shouldn t exist"

• May I switch off the light? (onestopenglish.com) - UPDATED
  - Download MP3 and script

• Moonshadow by Cat Stevens :
  "Oh, if I ever lose my hands- Oh, if...
  I wont have to work no more...
  Yes if I ever lose my eyes, I won't have to cry no more...
  Oh if I ever lose my legs- Oh if... I won't have to walk no more...
  Yes, if I ever lose my mouth- Oh if... I won't have to talk...
  I'm being followed by a moon shadow"

• Natural by S Club 7 :
  "come what may"

• Real To Me by Brian McFadden :
  "Picnics in the garden
  and the children they can play...
  I'll raise my family and live in peace...
  wake up you might be dreaming"

• Something Beautiful by Robbie Williams :
  "If you're lost, hurt, tired or lonely
  Can't control it try as you might
  May you find that love never leave you
  May you find it by the end of the day
  You WON'T be lost, hurt, tired or lonely
  Something beautiful will come your way"

• Trick me by Kelis :
  "Said you might trick me once
  I won't let you trick me twice..."

• You to me are everything by Real Thing :
  "Oohh I would take the stars out of the sky for you
  Stop the rain from falling if you asked me to
  I'd do anything for you, your wish is my command
  I could move a mountain when your hand is in my hand...
  The sweetest song that I can sing...
  So now you've got the best of me"

• You took the words right out of my mouth - a song by Meat Loaf
  "On a hot summer night.
  Would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?
  Will he offer me his mouth?
  Yes
  Will he offer me his teeth?
  Yes
  Wlll he offer me his jaws?...
  It must have been while you were kissing me"
  

• You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink (humanities.byu.edu)

  

• You can't judge a book by its cover. (humanities.byu.edu)
  
  

• Can't make head nor tail (out) of something / someone (humanities.byu.edu)
  
  

• You can't take it with you when you die. (humanities.byu.edu)
  
  

• Come What May by Air Supply

• Natural by S Club 7 :
  "come what may"

• Bull By The Horns by Millencolin :
  "Well, if you can't solve your problems, got to make things happen
  You gotta take the bull by the horns"
  (Proverb : 'You must take the bull by the horns')

• School Rules: How They Help Us (1953)
  "Discusses rules and stresses the point that rules are ways of making life more pleasant, smooth and safe.
  SHOWS EVERYDAY SCENES IN WHICH RULES INFLUENCE OUR BEHAVIOR. SHOWS WAYS NEW STUDENT CAN LEARN RULES,
  WHY EXCEPTIONS CAN'T BE GRANTED."
  (archive.org)

  

• Don't buy stuff you cannot afford
  (YouTube)