CONTEXTUALIZATION OF AN ENGLISH LEARNING NEED IN A SPECIFIC CONTEXT.

TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHING ENGLISH 
AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE.


CONTEXTUALIZATION OF AN ENGLISH LEARNING NEED IN A SPECIFIC CONTEXT.

When you learn a foreign language you have to learn some rules, if you want to make spontaneous sentences without to be afraid to be mistaken; so the learning of the modal verbs, it’s necessary to pass from a pre-intermediate level to intermediate level.

This topic will be applied to students of grades tenth and eleventh focused to the industrial areas, such as welding and health,safety,environment and quality, to develop communicative skills, keeping in mind the orientation of the European Common Framework of Reference for teaching, learning and evaluation for foreign languages.

The main object of this class program, setting out a conception of teaching and learning that helps teachers and students to relate subject matter content to real world situations. These instructional strategies are designed to more seamlessly link the learning of foundational skills and academic or occupational content by focusing teaching and learning squarely on concrete applications in a specific context that is of interest to the student, in this case in a real scenario of future productive life.

OUGHT – SHOULD- MUST:

These verbs are modal auxiliary verbs; they are called auxiliary because they need of another verb to get sense into the sentence. They differ from the other auxiliary verbs in that they have no (s-) form, (ing)-form, or participle.

Ought: can be used for the present, past or future tenses. It is followed by the infinitive with to. Besides, ought expresses advisability. The speaker reminds the subject about his obligations or duties. 

Affirmative	Negative	Interrogative
I, You, He, She, We, They: ought to	I, You, He, She, We, They: ought not to	Ought I, You, He, She, We, They to? *        “To” comes after the pronoun.

Examples:

·         She ought to study more.

·         She ought not to study more.

·         Ought she to study more.

Uses:

*        We use ought to when talking about things which are desired or ideal.

*        We use ought to have + -ed form to talk about things that were desired or ideal in the past but which didn’t happen. It can express regret.  
      We ought to have locked the cage,Then the bird wouldn’t have got out. The ideal or desired thing was that we locked the cage, but we didn’t.

•      Should: this modal verb can be used in exactly the same way. It's an usual way of expressing advice. 

Affirmative	Negative	Interrogative
I, You, He, She, We, They Should	I, You, He, She, We, They: Should not- Shouldn't	Should I, You, He, She, We, They?

 Examples:

·         You should eat salads.

·         You shouldn’t eat salads.

·         Should you eat salads?

Uses:

*        Should cannot be used with another modal verb.

*        We don’t use don’t, doesn’t, didn’t with should.

*        We use should most commonly to talk about what is the ideal or best thing to do in a situation.


      Must: expresses strong, necessity, duty or obligation. We also used must to express assumption and to give a command. It’s used for the present future and all time.

Ø  Present: we must buy the medicine that he needs.

Ø  Future: Juan must speak with Maria later.

Ø  All time: people must work hard to earn a living.

This modal verb can be used in the negative and interrogative cases too:

• *        Juan mustn´t lose his self -control easily.
• *        Must we work hard to earn a living?.

    
     APPLICATIONS IN THE REAL LIFE SCENARIO:

     PRACTICE:

 This is a dialogue inside of a factory, security inspector Hans speaks with a new employees, named Stacy and Ross. They are touring the plant, suddenly Inspector shows to Stacy and Ross a machine with this sign.

      Hans: What do you think of this design?

S    Stacy: I don't understand what it means.

      Ross: I don't get it either.  What is the image inside the circle?

      Ross: We ought to use a more easily recognizable image. 

S    Stacy:  What are the little black circles? Flowers?

      Hans: No, it's machinery, a danger point in a piece of equipment.

      Ross: Then, ought we to make the machine image more identifiable?

S    Stacy: What is the little bird-like image on top?

      Hans: It's a hand that is caught in the machinery. 

S    Stacy: You shouldn’t put that red line because it covers part of the image.

      Ross:  It's necessary to add text too.

      Hans: well I must show you and teach you, all the danger signals along the plant, it must be mandatory. It would have an accident.