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Expressing Possibilities and Permission

ClassNotes Team 2 MIN READUPDATED 5 JUL 2026

WEEK:  Two

TOPIC:  Expressing Possibilities and Permission

 OBJECTIVES: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to:

  1. Express possibilities using ‘Can’, ‘Cannot’, ‘May’, ‘May not
  2. Read and comprehend the passage and learn new words
  3. Write a guided composition

REFERENCE MATERIAL: Macmillan Brilliant Primary English Book 4

CONTENT:

GRAMMAR

EXPRESSING POSSIBILITIES AND PERMISSION

If you are not sure you will do something but it is likely you do it, that is a possibility.

If you want to go out of the class when your teacher is with you you must ask the teacher to allow you to go out, that is permission.

Both possibility and permission can be expressed in negative forms using ‘cannot’ and ‘may not’.

Study the following examples:

  1. I am willing to come to your birthday but will go to Lagos that day. I may not come. ( possibility)
  2. May I use the ladies, please? ( permission)

READING

Uche and Mahmud’s Families

Read the comprehension passage and study the following words

Monogamous, Polygamous, party, photograph, immediate, stepmother, classmates

COMPOSITION

Topic: How I spent my last holiday

EVALUATION: Pupils are evaluated thus:

What are the following sentences expressing? Write ‘A’ for possibility and ‘B’ for permission.

  1. It may not rain this month.
  2. You may go out if you wish to.
  3. A judge can be jailed
  4. May I open the door?
  5. The woman may not show up in the market today.