- Communicative Objective: Learn to speculate about uncertain present situations, distinguish different levels of probability, and explain the evidence behind assumptions.
- 5 Core Functional Sentences:
- They might be experiencing technical difficulties because the system has been unavailable all morning.
- She must be under considerable pressure if she is managing several projects at once.
- That cannot be the only explanation, since the problem existed before the update.
- There is a good chance that demand will increase once the product becomes more widely available.
- Judging by the available information, the company is probably reconsidering its original strategy.
- Grammar Focus: Modal verbs of present deduction and speculation using must, might, may, could, and cannot; probability expressions; participle clauses.
- Vocabulary Focus: speculate, probability, assumption, indication, likely
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Speculating About Present Situations
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