Program 6: Polite Requests & Past Abilities: Mastering the Modal "Could"
Learn to express possibilities, navigate polite situations, and discuss past skills and hypothetical conditions.
Instructor: Dave Starts today.
About this course
Expand your modal verb mastery with "Could." This versatile program covers the four primary functions of this word: expressing uncertainty or future possibility, making polite and formal requests, discussing past abilities, and exploring hypothetical conditional situations. You will practice building affirmative, negative ("couldn't"), and interrogative sentences. To elevate your conversational English, you will incorporate specific vocabulary for travel and business, adverbial phrases, and adjectives of degree. Finally, you will refine your natural pronunciation by applying H-reduction, D/T flapping, and consonant-to-vowel overlapping to your connected speech.
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Module 1 4 hours
The use of the modal verb ‘Could’
• Express uncertainty or future possibilities (e.g., "It could rain later").
• Make polite, formal requests or suggestions in professional and social settings (e.g., "Could you please pass the salt?").
• Talk about skills and abilities they possessed in the past (e.g., "I could swim very well when I was younger").
• Discuss hypothetical situations and their consequences using conditional structures (e.g., "If I won the lotto, I could buy many things").
• Speak fluidly using natural American reductions, such as flapping the 'T' in "couldn't" or overlapping the consonant-to-vowel sounds in "use it."
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Pre-Intermediate (CEFR A2) Level
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Program 6: Polite Requests & Past Abilities: Mastering the Modal "Could"
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