This document provides a preview of a unit on expressing certainty and using indirect speech to speculate about unusual events. It includes activities where students classify expressions of certainty and answer questions about modal verbs and indirect speech. Students are asked to change direct speech sentences into indirect speech using the proper modal verb conjugations.

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Do you remember your school years?
- Did you like school? Why or why not?
- What subjects did you like best in your school years?
- What subjects did you like least in your school
years?
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• Unit Preview: Quiz
• Ways to express certainty
• Indirect speech to speculate about the
out-of-the-ordinary
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Activity: Vocabulary. Classify the following expressions in one column.
Write it in your notebooks/documents.
Ways to express certainty: Probably, I imagine, It’s
possible, Clearly, I guess, Maybe, Most likely, It’s
obvious, There’s no question, It could be, I’ll bet, I
suppose.
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Very
certain
Almost
certain
Somewhat
certain
Not
certain

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Activity: Grammar. Answer the following questions to your teacher.
Indirect speech with modals
1. What is a modal verb?
2. What is indirect speech?
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Indirect speech with modals
1. What is a modal verb?
A modal verb is an auxiliary verb that
precedes the main verb and changes its
meaning.
1. What is indirect speech?
It’s a Grammar structure used to report what
someone else said.
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How to change modal verbs to indirect speech.
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Direct speech Indirect speech
will would
can could
may might
must, have to had to
would, could, might, should,
ought to
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Activity: Grammar. Change the following sentences into indirect
speech.
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