Giles Parker English Academy Podcasts

Modal auxiliaries for regret Hi welcome to New English Academy. My name’s Giles Parker and I am your host for this podcast. Today we’re going to focus on 3 different modal auxiliaries to express regret. The listening text is called ‘Buyer’s Remorse’. I’ll tell you more about that in a bit. This lesson is aimed at advanced level students but anyone can try it. First, I’ll explain about the grammar point then you can practice your listening and reading. Don’t forget to check out the website New English Academy.com for more great interactive online English learning activities. Modal auxiliaries, or helping verbs, if you like, are words that add extra colour and dimensions to verbs. You know how in English verbs always show us who did what and when, well modal auxiliaries give extra information and detail to the verb. So they say who did what but give extra information about the ability of someone to do something by using can or could or about the possibility of something by using may or might, or