Teach English in ShAtian Zhen - Meizhou Shi

This unit was about modal auxiliary verbs, the passive and active voice, relative clauses and phrasal verbs. Quite a lot of information on subjects that are very common in the spoken language but I don't remember being taught this in school. So I had to read through the materials a couple of times and I did some more online research to try and fully understand and absorb as much information about the subjects as possible, especially on the different types of phrasal verbs and the relative clauses. Modal auxiliary verbs and the passive voice aren't that difficult. You can use more than one modal auxiliary verb for more occasions. ''I should go now'' or ''I must go now'' for example are both correct and once you get more familiar with the language you will be able to choose the correct form in the right context. Same goes for the passive voice, if you know your tenses it's not too difficult to change sentences from the active to the passive voice. The relative clauses are not too bad either, once you understand the differences between defining and non-defining relative clauses. The non-defining relative clauses contain information that are not necessary for the sentence to be correct and can be left out. Whereas the information in a defining clause is all essential. Phrasal verbs might be a bit difficult for students to understand straight away. All of the sudden these verbs have more to it and have a completely different meaning. For example: 'She cheers for the team every Saturday.' and 'He cheers up his co-workers everyday.' are two different sentences with a very different meaning. But once you get the hang of the verb combinations (pull off, put on, turn off, come over, cheer up, etc.) it'll be easier to spot a phrasal verb in a sentence or a 'normal' verb.