EXT 4 - Lesson 14 - speculating

We can only speculate about the present.

• True

• False

To speculate about the present we use: modals + Verb-infinitive

• True

• False

She´s quite slim. She ​ (a)   ​ be a model.

• may
• can´t
• might not
• mustn´t

Peter ​ (a)   not be a doctor because he ​ (b)   blood.

• might
• hates
• can´t
• shouldn´t
• doesn´t hate

To speculate about the past, we use modal + have/has + past participle

• True

• False

Is this sentence correct? Aliens might have been here before.

• True

• False

Is this sentence correct or not? Why? She can´t has been a doctor. She hates studying.

• It´s incorrect because after a modal verb I can only use infinitive

• It´s correct because I have to agree with SHE.

• It´s incorrect because I can´t use negative modal verbs with SHE.

• It´s correct because the modal verb talks about an impossible situation

That E.T ​ (a)   ​ (b)   ​ (c)   the books ​ (d)   that table. That´s the only ​ (e)   explanation!

• may
• have
• put
• under
• reasonable
• mustn´t
• has
• putted
• at

​ (a)   mobile ​ (b)   this? It must be our ​ (c)   . Look! She always has a picture of her son there. She ​ (d)   ​ (e)   forgotten here after last class. She always has a picture of her son there.

• Whose
• is
• teacher´s
• might
• have
• Whom
• was
• teacher
• mustn´t

We ​ (a)   ​ (b)   to visit a famous site, ​ (c)   something unexpected happened.

• were
• going
• but
• are
• visiting