Family modals

1. As homework ask students to collect oft-repeated parental utterances.
2. If they are school students living at home ask them to bring a short list of negative parent sentences, things like 'John, you really should tidy your room'. If they are adults ask them to think back to their childhood, or to think of things they say to their own kids over and over again.
3. In class ask the students to write up three or four of their sentences on the board.
4. Other students try to guess who used the sentence to whom, and the whole context.
5. After they have guessed the students that wrote the sentences are welcomed to act out the utterances and their context.