Modals of Deduction - Guess the Country
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Students use strong and weak modals of probability to make guesses as their partners give hints on which places they are thinking of, first with countries and then with cities, with a modal verbs grammar presentation in between.
Lesson Plan Content:
Guess the country modals of deduction practice
Choose a country. Give hints about which one you chose. For each hint, your partner will try to make a true statement with one of the guessing phrases below, e.g. “It could be France (because…)” Don’t say if they have guessed the country that you chose or not, only say “Yes, I agree. It… be that” if the statement has the right level of certainty. If the level of certainty is wrong, give feedback with “No/ Actually, it…” Continue giving hints and responding to guesses until there is only one possibility and so your partner can correctly say “It must be…”
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Phrases for guessing |
Phrases for responding to the guesses |
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It must be… It’s almost certainly… It’s probably… It might/ may (well) be… It could (possibly) be… It’s almost certainly not… It can’t be… |
Yes, I agree. It is probably/ might be/ could possibly be/ is almost certainly not/ can’t be… Well, it could be… but I wouldn’t say that it must be… (because…)/ but it could also be… (or…) because… Actually, it could be… because…. No, it can’t be… because I said/ that country… |
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Argentina
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Australia |
Austria |
Belgium |
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Brazil
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Burma/ Myanmar |
Croatia |
(The) Czech Republic |
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Denmark
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Egypt |
France |
Georgia |
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Germany
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Greece
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Iceland |
Italy |
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Kazakhstan
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Antarctica/ The South Pole |
The Arctic/ The North Pole |
Cyprus |
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Ethiopia
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Holland/ The Netherlands |
Jordan |
Malta |
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Mongolia
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North Korea |
Northern Ireland |
Portugal |
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Russia
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South Africa |
South Korea |
Sweden |
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Switzerland
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Thailand |
The Bahamas |
The Maldives |
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The Philippines
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The Seychelles |
The UK |
England |
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Turkey
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Ukraine |
Vietnam |
Wales
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(The Republic of) Ireland |
(Great) Britain
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Zimbabwe |
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Ask about anything above which you don’t understand, then without looking above, discuss what phrases could go below and in what order:
100% chance
0% chance
Mixed answers
Use these mixed phrases to help with the task above, then check with the first page.
It can’t be… It could (possibly) be… It might be/ It may be… It must be…
It’s almost certainly not… It’s almost certainly… It’s probably…
Do the same activity with cities such as these:
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Cologne
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Munich |
Bruges
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Brussels |
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Florence
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Geneva |
Venice |
Rome |
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Paris
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Athens |
Naples |
Turin |
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Milan
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Moscow |
Beijing |
The Hague |
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Prague
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Seville |
Kiev |
Warsaw |
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Belgrade
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Vienna |
London |
Leicester |
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Guangzhou
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Nanjing |
LA |
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