Football player leaping in a floodlit stadium at night, crowd in warm red lights.
Unit 7 · On Stage

7A. Game on

B2 · 60–75 min · Apex English

Unit 7 · Quote
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
Wayne Gretzky
Lesson goals

By the end you will…

  • Use PAST MODALS (must have, might/could have, can't have, should have) to speculate about the past and express regret or criticism.
  • Use WOULD RATHER (+ bare infinitive / + past subject + past simple) to express preferences.
  • Talk about sports, competition, results and officiating with B2-level vocabulary.
  • Pronounce HAVE as a weak /əv/ in past-modal chunks (must've, should've, could've, might've, can't've).
  • React to a match, race or contest with natural spoken English.
  • Write a short match report or opinion piece using past modals.
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📚 Homework

Practise at home

Open the Workbook for extra exercises with answer keys — past modals, would rather, sports vocab, dictation and the weak form of HAVE.