Students tackle the identification of modal verbs within a given extract. This clip is suitable for teaching English at Key Stage 3 or Third Level.

If an image gets tarnished, you might want to clean it up or enhance it. People do different things to polish their image so they project the one they want. All these verbs are common collocations ...

In English it’s two words - ‘to swim ... what you can and what you have to do. They’re called modal verbs and they always come together with a verb in the infinitive form.