- Communicative Objective: Learn to make logical deductions about past events, express uncertainty about what happened, and evaluate possible explanations.
- 5 Core Functional Sentences:
- They must have misunderstood the instructions because the final result was completely different.
- She might have forgotten about the meeting, although that would be unusual for her.
- The documents cannot have been sent yesterday because they were still being revised this morning.
- Someone may have changed the settings without realizing the consequences.
- The problem could have been avoided if the warning had been taken seriously.
- Grammar Focus: Modal verbs of deduction in the past using must have, might have, may have, could have, and cannot have; modal perfect passive; third conditional.
- Vocabulary Focus: deduction, overlook, misinterpret, possibility, avoidable
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Making Deductions About the Past
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