A useful discussion before viewing could focus on the use of modal verbs as “helping” verbs to express the concepts of ability, permission, possibility and obligation. Can pupils identify these verbs ...

But the modal verbs do take the biscuit. It’s just so perfect that these ... The bubble is pricked, inside is nothing but air ...

Teaching multilingual students about Greek and Latin roots in words can help them systematically build their knowledge of ...

The BBC Sounds and ITV star has sounded out his followers' thoughts over scrapping times tables after a call from some in the ...

Times tables tests were introduced by the Conservative government in 2018. Nick Gibb, who was schools minister at the time, ...

Teachers unions have called for changes to be made to compulsory testing. Children should still learn times tables, but don't ...

An English family discover that they have broken German law ... This could be a springboard for revising modal verbs (eg ‘man darf’/‘man darf nicht’) with infinitives. The introduction of ‘eine Strafe ...