Sunday 7 June 2009

The Mist: Modal Verbs - Possibility, Speculation - MIGHT, COULD, CAN'T


A. Watch the movie segment.

B. In column 1, write YES if you believe it is a possible explanation for the mystery, and NO if you believe it is an impossible explanation.

In column 2, check the items that the characters in the movie believe are possible explanations for what is in the mist.

WHAT IS (IN) THE MIST?

MY OPINION / THE CHARACTERS’ OPINIONS


( ) ( ) A military operation
( ) ( ) A pollution cloud
( ) ( ) A terrorist attack
( ) ( ) Some kind of chemical explosion
( ) ( ) Death
( ) ( ) Just their imagination
( ) ( ) An earthquake
( ) ( ) Aliens
( ) ( ) The end of days
( ) ( ) A poisonous gas cloud
( ) ( ) A nuclear explosion
( ) ( ) A war simulation

C. Now write sentences with might, could or can’t to express possibility or impossibility, speculating about what is in the mist.


Might

1 ………………………………………………………………………………..
2 ……………………………………………………………………………….


Could

1 ………………………………………………………………………………..
2 ………………………………………………………………………………..

Can’t

1.…………………………………………………………………………………..
2 ………………………………………………………………………………....

D. What would you do if you were the woman who needed to go into the mist in order to rescue her eight year-old daughter?


2 comments:

  1. It seems like an exiting movie! Gonna waitch it! Really! But i couldn't understand A n B. But here goes C.

    C. Now write sentences with might, could or can’t to express possibility or impossibility, speculating about what is in the mist.


    Might

    1 It might be toxic fungus flying in the mist, which causes the victims to die painfully...
    2 There might be some kind of beast hiding in the mist.

    Could

    1 It could be some extraterrestrial object..
    2 It could be the Holy Ghost, which is cleanin the Earth from the insane human race...

    Can’t

    1 It can't be the Holy Ghost...
    2 I'm serious, it can't be the archangels neither.....

    D. What would you do if you were the woman who needed to go into the mist in order to rescue her eight year-old daughter?

    What i would do is resing to my fate and my daughter's, and if the pain is too much for me, commit suicide.

    Oh, by the way, I'm Stefa

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  2. C. Might
    1. There might be some acid in the mist.
    2. There might be some protected people who kill the unprotected due to the infection caused by the mist.

    Could
    1. The possible acid in the mist could be able to burn the human skin.
    2. A mutant being could produce the mist so as not to be seen by others.

    Can´t
    1. It can't be a normal being the one who kills everyone who enters the mist.
    2.It can't be a baby or a butterfly the one in the mist. I'm sure.

    D. I'm totally sure I wouldn't let my daughter die in the mist and be able to keep living. Obviously, I would go after her with some kind of defesive thing with me.

    Irene

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