2015-05-14 Structure: past advisability

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: p. 257-259 reading and questions
part A Vocabulary
1 a
2 c (psych - ‘p’ is silent, ‘ch’ sounds like /k/)
3 b
4 a
5 b
6 a
psych-, chem-, mech-, tech-, char- (‘ch’ sounds like /k/)
perhaps = maybe
part B Comprehension
1 our thoughts
2 improve
3 paralyzes
4 questioning
5 unrealistic
6 laugh
7 silly
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Past Modals: [modal] + have + past participle

I should have studied. = I ought to have studied.
= It was a good idea to study, but I didn’t do it.
I shouldn’t have eaten that.
= It wasn’t a good idea to eat that, but I did it.

You could have called me sooner.
= You had the ability to do this (but you didn’t).
They might have at least paid me.
= It was possible for them to pay me (but they didn’t).
(They might not have called the police. = It was possible not to, but they called.)

I couldn’t have done anything differently.
= I did NOT have the ability to do anything differently.
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p. 262-263 exercise 2
4 shouldn’t have taken
5 should Greg have used
6 might have asked
7 could have paid
8 ought to have worn
9 should Mr. Thompson have fired
10 shouldn’t have (short answers with past modals include “have”)
11 should Mr. Thompson have handled
12 ought to have warned
13 shouldn’t just have fired / shouldn’t have just fired
“Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.”
whistleblower: a person who shares information about a company doing something wrong or illegal
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Conclusions in the present: may, might, could, must
I call her office today, and she doesn’t answer:
She must not be at work. She may be sick today, or she could be helping her sister.
She couldn’t be at the beach. (I think this is impossible.)

Conclusions in the past: may have, might have, could have, must have
I called her office yesterday, and she didn’t answer.
She must not have been at work. She may have been sick, or she could have been helping her sister.
She couldn’t have been at the beach. (I think this was impossible.)
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Homework: p. 269 (all)