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Modal verbs like might, could, can, and should etc are used in english to express varying degrees of certainty, ability, and obligation. They don't change for different subjects and are usually followed by the base verb or have+participle. Students often confuse usages of the various modal verbs and my students find could particularly difficult since the past tenses and conditional tenses of can are separate in most other languages. Roleplays, activities involving rules, and signs can be good activities for teaching modals. The passive voice is used when you want to change the focus of the sentence from the person or thing that does the action to the thing that was acted upon. It is often used when the person who did the action is unknown, unimportant, or the speaker doesn't want to mention them. It is formed with "to be" in the desired tense followed by the participle and is often used in conjunction with the word by. Participles are tricky because there are so many which are irregular. Separating parts of the sentence for matching activities and making a quiz in the passive voice are good ways to practice. Independent clauses are part of a sentence which can be a sentence onn their own. All sentences contain at least one independent clause and often a dependent clause which cannot be a sentence on it's own. Relative clauses describe a noun and can be defining or non defining. Defining clauses give essential information and are not separated by commas, whereas nondefining clauses are separated by commas and could be removed without any change in meaning. Phrasal verbs are verbs with two or more words. They can be intransitive (no object, ex. show up), transitive separable (the object can come between two of the words if it's a pronoun or after both of them if its a regular noun. ex. put together), or transitive inseparable (the object comes after and the words cannot be separated without a change in meaning. ex. face off). There are a lot of ways to mess that up.
