47. Develop the situations as in the model:

Model: – No one will eat this food. (to throw away)

– No one will eat this food. It might as well be thrown away.

1. Milly cannot find a good job in London. (to return to her home town). 2. Vera spends days in the laboratory working at the project. (to promote). 3. Nina looks very nervous and frustrated. (to leave in peace) 4. Though the tickets were very expensive, the musical turned out to be a complete failure. (to give money to charity) 5. Our trip to Italy was spoiled by snow and frost. (to go to the Arctic Circle) 6. Joyce works long hours for very little money. (to stay at home) 7. The travel agency will be closed by the time you get there. (to go tomorrow) 8. You call that wine? (to use sth as vinegar)

CAN COULD	physical and mental ability possibility due to circumstances request permission prohibition doubt disbelief
MAY MIGHT	request permission prohibition supposition with a shade of doubt supposition with stronger doubt reproach
MUST	duty, obligation, necessity request prohibition strong advice near certainty
HAVE TO	forced necessity
NEED	absence of necessity absence of necessity for a performed action
SHOULD OUGHT TO	necessity in form of advice criticism of a past action
TO BE TO	necessity in form of an arrangement
SHALL	asking for instructions in rulings and laws
WILL	polite request

48. Gabriel Ashe has just told the news to her friend Yolanda Cole. Act as Yolanda expressing your attitude to the information and give advice wherever necessary.

Model: G – Just imagine, the person who called me to the White

House was Marjorie Tench! (surprise / doubt)

Y – Can it have been Ms. Tench? It can’t have been her,

she’s the President’s senior adviser. What did she need

you for?

1. She spoke about a bill called the Space Commercialization Promotions Act. I had never heard about it before. (supposition with a shade of doubt) 2. Imagine, Congress has passed the Space Commercialization Bill all four times it has seen it. (surprise / doubt; near certainty) 3. Tench thinks that if NASA is privatized, space science will die. (strong advice) 4. She has heard petitions from companies who want to build neon billboards that blink advertisements in the nighttime sky. (doubt / disbelief; advice) 5. In fact, there have been petitions from space hotels and tourist attractions whose proposed operations include ejecting their trash into the void of space and creating orbiting trash heaps. (supposition with a shade of doubt; advice) 6. Then Ms. Tench showed me Sexton’s financial records. (disbelief / doubt; near certainty) 7. She claims my candidate is accepting bribes from aerospace companies. (surprise; supposition with a shade of doubt) 8. That terrible woman suggested that I should help her discredit the senator’s ethics. (duty / obligation / necessity; advice) 9. And what if she goes public with compromising photos? (forced necessity; absence of necessity) 10. The awful thing happened later, I overheard the senator’s conversation with aerospace men. He is really involved with them. (disbelief; supposition with a shade of doubt) 11. Shall I phone Tench? I am to give her a written statement by 8 o’clock. (advice; absence of necessity)