MAY I GO HOME?
UNIT 3
Students will be able to use the modals verbs in order to ask for permission /
requests and giving suggestions on certain topics relate to daily life and technology
Ouch!! I need a doctor!
Lesson 3A
May and might – health problems, expressions
VOCABULARY- Health and Illness
A. Look at the pictures and write the names of the illness.
fever - stomach ache – headache – toothache - sore throat – cold
fever
cold
headache
toothache
sore throat
Expressions
Exercise
Healthy diet
Feel stressed
Relax!
Good for you!
stomach ache
B. Match the illness with the possible treatment. Add two more.
go to the dentist - take an aspirin - go to hospital - drink something hot
Illness
headache
cold
toothache
fever
Sore throat
Heart attack
Treatment
take an finalin
take a ginger tea
go to the dentist
go to hospital
drink something hot
take an aspirin
C. Complete the conversations with the words from exercise A and B.
headache
1. A. Do you have an aspirin? I have a terrible ______________________.
B. Oh, sorry. I’ll get one at the pharmacy.
toothache
2. A. I don’t feel very well. I have ________________________.
I need to go to the dentist.
B. Poor you.
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GRAMMAR – may- might (possibility)
→ We use may or might to say that something is possible happening in the future.
→ Both may and might are usually used in sentences.
Examples:
▪ It may be true or It might be true (=perhaps it is true)
▪ He may know or he might know.
▪ It might rain later
→ We make the negative form by adding the word NOT
Full form = may not/ might not
short form mightn’t
Structure
be (true) in his office.
may
be (doing, working, having,
I/you/he/she/it/we/they
(not)
might
studying)
know, want, work, etc.
Examples: She may be working at home.
They might know the answer to your question.
Dalia may not be in her office.
→ We make questions by putting the subject after may/might:
May I …? Might I …?
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PRACTICE
D. Complete the conversations about the plans for the weekend. Use
might / might not.
1.A: Where are you going this weekend?
might not be going anywhere
might be going
B: I don't know yet. I ____________________
(Tim's party), but I _____________
/ anywhere).
2.A: It’s a national holiday tomorrow, so there's no public transport.
How are Jane and Sue going to get here?
they migh not come
might go to in taxi (taxi), but____________ (not / come).
B: I don't know. They_________________
anywhere. (not
3.A: Who are you going to invite for dinner?
I might invite sarah (Sarah), but ________________________________
I might not invite tony
B: I haven't decided yet. ______________________
(not
/ Tony).
4.A: What new clothes does Clare want to buy on Saturday?
she might wont to buy some jeans
she might no wont to bur anything
B: She's not sure yet. __________________________ (some jeans), but ___________________________ (not
/ anything).
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READING
E. Read about Michael and his health problems.
Michael works in a restaurant in the center of Madrid, Spain. He goes to work at 5pm,
but yesterday at 5pm, he wasn't on the bus, he was in a taxi going to the hospital. He
was very sick! Usually, he works in the kitchen all evening, but yesterday he wasn't in
the kitchen. He was in the X-ray department of the hospital because the doctors were
worried about his stomach pains.
Normally, at 11pm, Michael takes a bus to go home after finishing at the restaurant,
but yesterday at 11pm, he was still in the hospital and he was still unhappy and sick.
He was in a bed and he was very hot - 102 degrees! Was he worried? Yes, he was!
In the morning, he was better, and the doctors were pleased. What was the problem?
It was bad food - from his restaurant!
F. Read again and circle true or false.
1. Michael was in the restaurant yesterday afternoon. T/F
2. He goes to work in the restaurant by bus. T/F
3. Yesterday, he was in a bus going to the hospital. T/F
4. He was in the hospital because of his head. T/F
5. He was in the X-ray department of the hospital. T/F
6. He was in the hospital until 11pm. T/F
WRITING – Health problems
G. Think about the future post-covid 19. What things do you think it may change? Think about some
possibilities in the new society we are going to face and write some sentences using May or Might.
 …
the society might change they way it feeds, because the main
problem of the pandemic was eating undre animals.
might cleame our food is a better way so as not to have bacteria
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