Modal verbs (A2/B1)
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Modal verbs
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Did you know that the average industrially-produced apple may have been sprayed up to 16 times with 30 different chemicals?
What time should you expect your foreign business colleagues to arrive?
In Japan, people would be shocked.
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Modal verbs - auxiliary verbs used to complement or change the meaning of the main verbs in sentences.
"He can consult specialists over a video link when he needs to"
"this sort of long-distance telemedicine could go much further."
"but its future may lie closer to home"
"It might be sunny on the weekend."
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"... a younger man should never be sent to complete a business deal with an older Japanese man."
(shall / ought to)
"You must exchange business cards immediately on meeting because it is essential to establish everyone's status and position."
"The answer will be even more technology"
"I would learn to play the piano if I had time."
I would like to have some juice.
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Multiple Choice
In "When a patient in Tristan da Cunha enters Dr Van der Merwe's surgery, he may as well be stepping into the University of Pittsburgh medical centre." may is used to express:
prediction
possibility
duty
suggestion
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Multiple Choice
In "Taken to its technological conclusion, this would involve using wireless sensors..." would is used to express:
suggestion
duty
possibility
condition
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Multiple Choice
In "(it) is just one way telemedicine can be used" can is used to express:
duty
suggestion
possibility
prediction
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Multiple Choice
In "In France, you shouldn't sit down in a café until you've shaken hands with everyone you know." shouldn't is used to express:
duty
condition
suggestion
prediction
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Multiple Choice
In "In Pakistan, you mustn't wink. It's offensive." mustn't is used to express:
duty
condition
suggestion
possibility
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Read the text Early cinema and answer the following questions:
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Open Ended
Which modal verbs were used in the text? And what's their utility in the context?
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Open Ended
What's the main idea of the text?
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Multiple Choice
According to paragraph 1, all of the following were true of viewing films in Kinetoscope parlors EXCEPT:
One individual at a time viewed a film
Customers could view one film after another.
Prizefights were the most popular subjects for films.
Each film was short.
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Multiple Choice
The author discusses phonograph parlors in paragraph 2 in order to
explain Edison’s financial success
describe the model used to design Kinetoscope parlors
contrast their popularity to that of Kinetoscope parlors
illustrate how much more technologically advanced Kinetoscope parlors were
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Multiple Choice
Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the sentence "He refused to develop projection technology, reasoning that if he made and sold projectors, then exhibitors would purchase only one machine—a projector—from him instead of several."? Incorrect answer choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.
Edison was more interested in developing a variety of machines than in developing a technology based on only one.
Edison refused to work on projection technology because he did not think exhibitors would replace their projectors with newer machines.
Edison did not want to develop projection technology because it limited the number of machines he could sell.
Edison would not develop projection technology unless exhibitors agreed to purchase more than one projector from him.
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Multiple Choice
According to paragraph 4, how did the early movies differ from previous spectacles that were presented to large audiences?
They were a more expensive form of entertainment.
They were viewed by larger audiences.
They were more educational.
They did not require live entertainers.
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Multiple Choice
According to paragraph 5, what role did early exhibitors play in the presentation of movies in theaters?
They decided how to combine various components of the film program
They advised filmmakers on appropriate movie content.
They often took part in the live-action performances.
They produced and prerecorded the material that was shown in the theaters.
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Multiple Choice
According to paragraph 6, the images seen by viewers in the earlier peepshows, compared with the images projected on the screen, were relatively
small in size
inexpensive to create
unfocused
limited in subject matter
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