hello hello hello everybody my name is steve ford and welcome to your english
lesson today we have a wonderful lesson a fantastic lesson learning how to speak
english fast and learn or review a little grammar at the same time are you ready let's go
so in this lesson today we have the modals might may could and must these we're going to use today
as modals of probability and we of course know that mites is a weak possibility it's about 25
approximately i'm just trying to give you a number here we have may which is a 50 50 50 kind of like
could which is about a 50 possibility and then we have must which is a very strong possibility or
probability about 90 okay so now we're going to go into using those same modals might may
could must in the past so might have may have could have and must have and of course
we can say those faster with contractions so let's listen to the music to practice it
are you ready let's go might have been may have been could have been must have been
might of been have been could have been must have been faster might have been
may have been could have been must have been might have been might have been
may have been may have been could have been could have been must have been must have been might
have been might have been might have been may have been may have been made could have could have been
could have been must have been must have been much of it might have been may have been could have
been must have been let's go back to the lesson so let's take a look at some situations that happened
in the past first this poor lady who seems lost she was lost at the airport so what do you
think might have happened to her mida is a more friendly way it's talking more quickly might have
completely acceptable even in business english so what do you think might have happened to her
i think in my opinion that she got lost and she might have been looking for her husband
what do you think you let me know what do you think could have happened to her
the next one is very sad we have a woman she's the bride and she seems to be
sad because she's waiting for somebody the man of her life on her wedding day so what do you think
must have happened to her i'm gonna guess and say that the man of her life must have backed out at
the last minute it's a great phrasal verb in this case back out means to not participate or not go
in this case to his wedding so he backed out he gave up he didn't want to go maybe there's
another reason you can leave your comments down below what do you think might have happened to her
the next one we have lipstick on the collar someone came home with lipstick on his collar
what do you think might have happened to him i'm not even going to mention it i'll let you
try to post some comments about that well maybe he might have um yeah and of course the last one
we have john and john he worked at the stock market he was a stock broker and then suddenly
overnight he was working as a chef what do you think could have happened do you think that he
might have lost his job for some reason do you think that he could have been fired do you think
that he must have been burnt out really tired of working as a stock broker you let me know so
we're going to play a game yes it's everybody's game is this real or is this fake with all of the
technology that we have available to us today we can do so many things with it we have photoshop
other video editing programs as well such as deep fake where we can really convince people
that something which is fake looks real but it's not so we're going to go through some photos and
you can play this game with me if you think it might be fake or real the first one here is a bowl
and do you think that this is fake or that this could be real looking at it it's
kind of deceiving it really looks like it might be fake i don't think i've ever seen a bull with
horns like that before but what do you think do you think that could be real maybe you have some
inside information i'll let you look at the details of that a little bit
and if you thought that it was real yes real you are correct
it is 100 real what about these trees here do you think they could be real do you think they might
be fake looking at them they look kind of strange all pointing in a different direction like that
but we know that in nature many times strange things can happen faker real what do you think
in fact this picture is real yes 400 bent pine trees which creates a truly creepy setting
yes so it's real i thought it was fake next one a picture of the statue of liberty in a huge storm
fake or real
it might be real might be could be in fact it is fake so this photo went viral around the time of
hurricane sandy and it was photoshopped yes caused a lot of panic the next one
looks a little fishy a little suspicious up on some high platform we have a tennis match
you think it's fake or do you think it's real well it could be real if it were in a place like
a place where they have a lot of money and they could do something like that might be
for real in fact it's real so this is a tennis match that was used to promote
an event in dubai and it's a game by none other than roger federer and andre agassi
so yes that photo is real this next one is hilarious is it fake or is it real is it a fake
hilarious or a real hilarious well we're gonna find out you can check out the details there
could be real it's huge
if you thought that it was fake i'm sorry it's real yes so this is a rabbit
it's from turkey and its fur is so long that they actually
use it similar to sheep this next one looks like it could be real
what was the largest squid there ever was in the world real or fake
if you thought that it was fake yes you are correct yes so in fact this is photoshop and
the squid is actually superimposed on the image of what was originally a shark that washed up on
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