Courses · A2 · Lesson 7

A2 Course · Lesson 7

Modals — skal, bør, må

Give advice and talk about rules and necessity

Goal: Use skal, bør, må and er nødt til at for obligation, advice, and permission.

Practice first

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skal, bør, må, and er nødt til

Learn the modals, then build Du bør {verb}.

1. Modal words

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Hear the four key chunks.

2. Advice & permission

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Full model lines.

3. Necessity

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er nødt til at + infinitive.

4. Build: Du bør…

Give friendly advice.

Du bør ….

Example: Du bør sove mere.

Sentence order

Put the words in order

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Tap the Danish words in the correct order.

English

You should sleep more.

Your sentence

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Tap the words below

Review lesson

A2 · Lesson 7 — read after you practice.

1) Four useful modals

skal — have to / am supposed to
bør — should (advice)
— may / allowed to
er nødt til at — have to / need to

2) Advice and rules

Du bør sove mere.
Du må ikke ryge her.
Må jeg åbne vinduet?
Jeg er nødt til at gå nu.

3) skal vs er nødt til

skal is also used for plans (lesson 4).
For strong necessity, er nødt til at is clearer:
Jeg er nødt til at arbejde i weekenden.

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Speaking tasks

Say these out loud. Use Listen when you want a model.

Give advice

Du bør … (sleep, practise Danish, drink water).

Ask permission

Må jeg åbne vinduet? Må jeg låne din cykel?

Necessity

Jeg er nødt til at … (go, work, sleep).

Lesson complete

Give one piece of advice and ask one må-question before lesson 8 (quantity).