Bruno Mars: When I was your man

Same bed but it feels just a little bit bigger now

Our song on the radio but it don't sound the same

When our friends talk about you, all it does is just tear me down

Cause my heart breaks a little when I hear your name

It all just sounds like oooooh…

CHORUS: 

Mmm, too young, too dumb to realize

That I should 've bought you flowers

And held your hand

Should 've gave you all my hours

When I had the chance

Take you to every party

Cause all you wanted to do was dance

Now my baby's dancing

But she's dancing with another man

My pride, my ego, my needs, and my selfish ways

Caused a good strong woman like you to walk out my life

Now I never, never get to clean up the mess I made, ohh…

And it haunts me every time I close my eyes

It all just sounds like oooooh…

CHORUS

Although it hurts

I'll be the first to say that I was wrong

Oh, I know I'm probably much too late

To try and apologize for my mistakes

But I just want you to know

I hope he buys you flowers

I hope he holds your hand

Gives you all his hours

When he has the chance

Take you to every party

Cause I remember how much you loved to dance

Do all the things I should 've done

When I was your man

Do all the things I should 've done

When I was your man

Preparing ourselves for the holidays... I chose this song by Bruno Mars which contains the perfect modal "should have" that makes part of the only unit we have not seen this year, you can learn more about modals in this post and enjoy this song as much as I do.

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Modal auxiliaries for my 1st of Bachillerato

My students of 1st of Bachillerato are ending the year with modal auxiliary verbs, so let's review what modal verbs are. They have special characteristics:

• They always have the same form, no matter the subject of the sentence.
• They work as auxiliary verbs, that is, they make their own negative (by adding "not") and interrogative form (through subject-verb inversion) without any other auxiliary verb.
• They are defective verbs, that is, they do not have all the tenses.
• They are always followed by another verb in the infinitive without "to". Modal verbs add some meaning to the verbs that goes after them. We can see this special meaning which corresponds to the different modals in the chart below:

Meaning... in the	Present time	Past time	Future time
ABILITY	can (can't)	could (couldn't) was/were(n't) able to	will be able to
PERMISSION	can (n't) could(n't) may (not)	was/were(n't) allowed to	will be allowed to
ADVICE	should(n't) ought (not) to
OBLIGATION	must have to  need to	had to	will have to
PROHIBITION	mustn't
LACK OF OBLIGATION	don't/doesn't have to don't need to	didn't have to didn't need to	won't have to  won't need to
POSSIBILITY	could may might
CERTAINTY	(positive) must (negative) can't

You can practice modals in many pages, here are some:

- English page

- Burlington Books' page

- A funny game at ESL Games World.

You may find many more in the internet but I think these are enough!! I hope you still work a little, it's just two weeks to go, one final effort!!!

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