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Grammar Guide: Speculation & Deduction

The document contains exercises focused on grammar related to speculation and deduction, asking students to complete conversations using modal verbs. It also includes sentences that require the addition of a single word for grammatical correctness. Additionally, there is an activation task prompting students to prepare a presentation about their predictions for life in 20 years, incorporating the grammar learned.

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Grammar Guide: Speculation & Deduction

The document contains exercises focused on grammar related to speculation and deduction, asking students to complete conversations using modal verbs. It also includes sentences that require the addition of a single word for grammatical correctness. Additionally, there is an activation task prompting students to prepare a presentation about their predictions for life in 20 years, incorporating the grammar learned.

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4B GRAMMAR speculation and deduction

a Complete the conversation. Rewrite the phrases in brackets using must, may, might, can’t, could,
or should, and a verb.

Paul What’s wrong, Helena? You look a bit worried.


Helena I think I 1 must have lost (am almost sure I lost) my phone.
I can’t find it anywhere.
Paul Isn’t it in your bag?
Helena No, I don’t think so. I've double-checked.
Paul You 2 (perhaps left) it at work.
3
Helena No, it (almost certainly isn’t) there
because I remember having it when I was shopping after work today.
Paul Somebody 4 (perhaps took) it from your bag in the supermarket.
Helena Oh no! I hope it’s not a hacker who 5 (is perhaps trying) to steal my identity.
Paul You’d better contact the bank and cancel all your credit cards just in case. It 6
(probably won’t be) a problem if you tell them what’s happened – they can just block your
account.
Helena Good idea. Can I use your phone?
Paul Here you are. Hey! Isn’t that your ringtone? It’s coming from the sofa.
Helena Ah, thank goodness! Here it is. It 7 (almost definitely fell) out of my pocket
when I sat down after I came home from work.
Paul Yes, it 8 (almost certainly did). Lucky you didn’t ring the bank!

b Add one word in the right place to make the sentences correct.
to
1 The traffic is heavy today, so they’re sure be late for the meeting.
2 Medical experts say that the disease likely to spread all over the world.
3 Without an experienced guide, you probably be able to get to the top of the mountain.
4 The company is unlikely be in a position to make a profit this year.
5 If we play as badly as we did last week, we bound to lose in the semi-final.
6 It’s very that you’ll win anything. I’d say there’s only a two per cent chance.
7 With her presentation skills, she’s bound be able to convince the company to choose her proposal.
8 If Sophie doesn’t get to the gate in the next ten minutes, she definitely miss the flight.

ACTIVATION
Prepare a short presentation about what you think life might be like in 20 years’ time. Try to use the
grammar from a and b above. Include two or three of these topics:

Entertainment Family and friends Shopping The economy The environment Technology Transport Work

‘First of all, I think it’s very likely that 20 years from now I’ll still have a small group of very close friends,
although if I’m married, I might not see them as often as I do now. People will definitely still want to meet each
other face to face, and I don’t believe that email or chatting online will ever replace that. Families are bound to
become smaller in the future as nowadays people are having fewer children and I think that the tradition of a
large extended family is likely to disappear. Moving on to work, I think…’

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