Where’s my mobile?

1. What do you always carry with you?

2. Do you often lose things? If so, what?
3. Do you usually find them again? If so, where?
Listen again. Fill in the gaps in these
sentences with one word.
1. It might be in the bathroom.
2. Yeah, of course, but it must be switched ___________ .
3. Or someone could have taken it from your ____________ .
4. But someone might be using it to phone _____________ .
5. Then we popped into that trendy new café for a _____________ .
6. Ok, so you didn’t leave it in the _____________ .
7. So you may have left it on the _____________ .
8. You can’t have left it at the _____________ .
9. He might have been waiting for a chance to ___________ my phone.
10. That guy in the _________ must have stolen it.
Look at the sentences in 3. Answer these
questions.
1. In which sentences is the speaker making a deduction about: a) the present? b) the past?
2. In which two sentences does the speaker know that something is definitely true or definitely not true?
b) Fill in the gaps in these rules with could, can’t, must, imight or may.
• When we believe something is true, we use _________ .
• When we think something is possibly true, we use ________ , _________ or ___________ .
• When we believe something isn’t true, we use _______ .
c) Look at verb forms in bold in the sentences in 3. Match the sentences to these rules.
To make deduction about …
a state in the present we use:
modal verb + infinitive. __1__ , _______
Something happening now we use:
Modal verb + be + verb+ing. _________
A state or a completed action in the past we use:
Modal verb + have + pasf participle. __________, ____________ , ____________ , ______________
A longer action in the past we use:
Modal verb + have + been + past participle. _____________