must be about ten.ĬHART 10-2: DEGREES OF CERTAINTY: PRESENT TIME NEGATIVE Emphasize that students can use their own words if they wish. Give students time to complete most of this exercise as seatwork. It may/might/could have fallen under your chair. You may/ might/could have a ballpoint pen. S/he may/might/could live in an apartment near school. You could be Speaker A, asking questions of the class. Point out that the answers in this exercise express less certainty than the answers in Exercise 2.
#Past modal verbs exercises with answers movie#
The movie must be very popular / must be really good. ) must be happy / must have heard some good news / must be feeling good. ) must have an itch / must have an insect bite. ) must have a cold / must be sick / must not feel well. ) must be tired / must be sleepy / must need sleep. Why do you suppose that is, Abdul? SPEAKER C (Abdul): He must be sleepy. SPEAKER B (Oscar): (yawns) SPEAKER A (you): Oscar is yawning. For example, in item 1: SPEAKER A (you): Oscar, please yawn. If you wish, have a student pantomime the action in an item. It presents simple, everyday situations in which to practice using must to express logical conclusions. This exercise can be teacher-led as a quick followup to the discussion of Chart 10-1. Call students’ attention to the note about maybe and may be confusing the two is a common written error (for native speakers too).They show the relative strength of one’s certainty. The percentages are, of course, not exact.C ĬHART 10-1: DEGREES OF CERTAINTY: PRESENT TIME In item 1, the speaker is expressing a logical conclusion based upon the evidence available (i.e., that Jeff was offered a scholarship) the speaker is saying that s/he believes Jeff is a good student- but does not know that with 100 percent sureness. Students should discuss their choices and their reasoning process. Item 5 makes the point that if one is sure, no modal is needed the modals are used when one is not 100 percent sure. This exercise previews modals used to express degrees of certainty (items 1–11) and progressive and past modals (items 12–14). In other grammars, terms such as “logical possibility” or “degree of probability” are used in discussions of these modal usages. TERMINOLOGY: The term “degrees of certainty” is used with those modals that express the strength of a speaker’s belief in the sureness of what s/he is saying.The chapter leads to a summary chart of the information presented in Chapters 9 and 10 and review exercises on modal usage. Then attention is paid to a few additional modal usages. APPROACH: The first half of this chapter concentrates on using modals to express suppositions and logical conclusions, and relates the modals to matters of time and duration.OBJECTIVE: Continuing from Chapter 9, students will learn additional uses and forms of modal auxiliaries.Summary chart of modals and similar expressions Chapter 10: MODALS, PART 2 ORDER OF CHAPTER
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