Modal verbs can, could and must in the coursebooks for primary schoolŽvegla, Tea (Avtor) JUTRONIĆ, DUNJA (Mentor) KUKOVEC, MELITA (Komentor) modalni glagolitipi modalnostifunkcijeosnovna šolaučbenikidelovni zvezki.In my diploma paper I research modal verbs, their functions and types of modality. In the first part I concentrated on all modal verbs, which are the following: can, could, may, might, will, would, shall, should, must and ought to or have to. I described the following types of modality: epistemic, deontic and dynamic modality. Then I narrowed my focus on the functions of three most common modal verbs: can, could and must. I defined three functions of can and could, which are ability, permission and possibility, and two functions of must: obligation and logical necessity. At the end of the theoretical part I described some activities, which can help learners to cope with those modal verbs and some characteristics of the curriculum, the syllabus and coursebooks. In the empirical part I analysed the use of modal verbs can, could and must in thirteen coursebooks and thirteen workbooks for the seventh, eighth and ninth grade of primary school in Slovenia.[T. Žvegla]20092009-06-17 07:08:23Diplomsko delo10948UDK: 821.111(043.2)COBISS_ID: 17174024NUK URN: URN:SI:UM:DK:HZ9EXQU3sl