Now, try to imagine what this place

might have been like before it was

abandoned…

TO SPECULATE ABOUT THE PAST OR MAKE

GUESSES USE THE FOLLOWING:

MUST –
100% certain sth was true

MAY – possibility 50%

PAST
HAVE
COULD/MIGHT – possibility PARTICIPLE
33%
CAN’T –
100% certain sth wasn’t true
Now, try to imagine what this place might have
been like before it was abandoned…

Must have PP
Could/Might have PP
May have PP
Can’t have PP
A home abandoned after a fire during World War II
Choose a photograph of an abandoned place
you want to work with and come up with as
many sentences using past modals as possible.

TO SPECULATE ABOUT THE PAST OR MAKE

GUESSES USE THE FOLLOWING:

MUST –
100% certain sth was true

MAY – possibility 50%

PAST
HAVE
COULD/MIGHT – possibility PARTICIPLE
33%
CAN’T –
100% certain sth wasn’t true