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Modals of Deduction - Guess the Country

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Students use strong and weak modals of probability to make guesses as their partners give hints on which places they are thinking of, first with countries and then with cities, with a modal verbs grammar presentation in between.

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Guess the country modals of deduction practice

Choose a country. Give hints about which one you chose. For each hint, your partner will try to make a true statement with one of the guessing phrases below, e.g. “It could be France (because…)” Don’t say if they have guessed the country that you chose or not, only say “Yes, I agree. It… be that” if the statement has the right level of certainty. If the level of certainty is wrong, give feedback with “No/ Actually, it…” Continue giving hints and responding to guesses until there is only one possibility and so your partner can correctly say “It must be…”

Phrases for guessing

Phrases for responding to the guesses

It must be…

It’s almost certainly…

It’s probably…

It might/ may (well) be…

It could (possibly) be…

It’s almost certainly not…

It can’t be…

Yes, I agree. It is probably/ might be/ could possibly be/ is almost certainly not/ can’t be…

Well, it could be… but I wouldn’t say that it must be… (because…)/ but it could also be… (or…) because…

Actually, it could be… because….

No, it can’t be… because I said/ that country…

 

Argentina

 

 

Australia

 

Austria

 

Belgium

 

Brazil

 

 

Burma/ Myanmar

 

Croatia

 

(The) Czech Republic

 

Denmark

 

 

Egypt

 

France

 

Georgia

 

Germany

 

 

Greece

 

 

Iceland

 

Italy

 

Kazakhstan

 

 

Antarctica/ The South Pole

 

The Arctic/ The North Pole

 

Cyprus

 

Ethiopia

 

 

Holland/ The Netherlands

 

Jordan

 

Malta

 

Mongolia

 

 

North Korea

 

Northern Ireland

 

Portugal

 

Russia

 

 

South Africa

 

South Korea

 

Sweden

 

Switzerland

 

 

Thailand

 

The Bahamas

 

The Maldives

 

The Philippines

 

 

The Seychelles

 

The UK

 

England

 

Turkey

 

 

Ukraine

 

Vietnam

 

Wales

 

 

(The Republic of) Ireland

 

(Great) Britain

  

 

Zimbabwe

 

Ask about anything above which you don’t understand, then without looking above, discuss what phrases could go below and in what order:

100% chance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0% chance

 

Mixed answers

Use these mixed phrases to help with the task above, then check with the first page.

It can’t be…                It could (possibly) be…      It might be/ It may be…              It must be…

It’s almost certainly not…                          It’s almost certainly…                  It’s probably…

 

Do the same activity with cities such as these:

 

Cologne

 

 

Munich

 

Bruges

 

 

Brussels

 

Florence

 

 

Geneva

 

Venice

 

Rome

 

Paris

 

 

Athens

 

Naples

 

Turin

 

Milan

 

 

Moscow

 

Beijing

 

The Hague

 

Prague

 

 

Seville

 

Kiev

 

Warsaw

 

Belgrade

 

 

Vienna

 

London

 

Leicester

 

Guangzhou

 

 

Nanjing

 

LA

 

 

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