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Could’ve, should’ve, would’ve (a lesson plan)

July 9th, 2008 · 10 Comments

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Here is the slideshow that I have referred to in the current issue of English Teaching Professional. It consists of 12 book cover images taken from Amazon.co.uk, each of which contains one of the following notoriously problematic structures:

Could + have + past participle
Should + have + past participle
Would + have + past participle

Ideas for using the images for teaching can be found in the pdf file.

Tags: Auxiliaries · Conditionals · Could have, should have, would have · Grammar · Learner-friendly corpora · Lesson plans · Using images from Amazon.com

10 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Maria Nilce Martinelli Pontes // Jul 27, 2008 at 6:06 pm

    Dear Jamie,
    I’m an English teacher from Uberaba, MG- Brazil, and I’ve just read your article in English Teaching Professional issue. Loved it and went to the internet to check the steps into Amazon.co.uk. No need to say, I did take the advantage and downloaded the lesson plan. It’s going to be very useful.
    Congratulations.
    Nilce

  • 2 admin // Jul 27, 2008 at 8:50 pm

    Hello Nilce
    Very nice to meet you. I’m really glad you liked the lesson plan. Thank you very much for the comment.
    Jamie

  • 3 Polar Bear // Aug 26, 2008 at 8:35 am

    There’s also a great ABBA song (The day Before You Came) that has “must have” in almost every line.

  • 4 admin // Aug 26, 2008 at 9:42 am

    I hadn’t heard that one before. Nice song. Thanks for that Polar Bear.
    http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=SYqYYnxhtgo

  • 5 Barbara // Dec 14, 2008 at 9:15 pm

    Thank you for this idea . I have found lots of books with ‘wish’ in the title for a lesson along similar lines. Thanks to you.
    Barbara.

  • 6 Elsbeth // May 2, 2009 at 8:35 pm

    Great activity for any book lover!

  • 7 Ibraham // May 16, 2009 at 5:53 pm

    I know we use should to give advice and i found in the interchange book should is using for giving opinion. I want you to help me to explain between should, could and would . Which one use to give advice opinion

  • 8 Saifuddin Mullick // May 22, 2010 at 8:50 am

    Great Initiatives for those who are seeking to learn the English…Keep It up!!!

  • 9 robin // Aug 17, 2010 at 3:26 pm

    thank you for giving valuable idea, it might helpfull for a peaple, who are willing to learn english.

  • 10 admin // Aug 17, 2010 at 5:09 pm

    Pleasure to help Robin. Hope it goes well.
    J =)

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