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Exercises

Continue the sentences using 'obligation' words and phrases from A opposite, and using the
words in brackets.
1 They were losing El million a year, so the company ... (close down)
2 You don't have to buy travel insurance ... (optional)
3 You can hire a video camera, but you ... (pay a deposit)
4 We'll have to sell the house, I'm afraid we have ... (otherwise, bankrupt)
5 This jacket's got curry stains on it; I really.. . (the cleaners)
6 He didn't want to give them the money, but they had guns; they ... (hand it over)
7 No, he couldn't choose to pay a fine; the prison sentence is ... (for dangerous driving)
8 I didn't want to do maths, but I had to. It's ... (in all secondary schools)
9 How kind of you! You really ... (buy us a present)
10 If you're over 50, you're.. . (military service)
List something in your world which ...

1 regularly needs cutting. my hair, the lawn
2 there is 3 lack of.
3 is obligatory once a year.
4 you are in need of.
5 is inevitable.
6 you no longer have to do.
7 was compulsory when you were at school.

Collocations with 'possibilityIprobability' words. Use a dictionary to try to fill in the rest of
this matrix. One line has already been done for you. If you cannot find out the collocations
at all, use the key to this unit.
d = typical collocation )s = not a typical collocation
r ~- highly quite very absolutely

-- --
possible 8 d d 8
impossible
probable
(un)likely

inevitable
certain

Use the collocations in 60.3 to say how probablelpossible these are.
1 Most people will have a videophone in their homes by 2025.
2 There will be rain in the Amazon forest within the next 8 days.
3 A human being will live to be 250.
4 We will all be dead by the year 2250.
5 A flying saucer will land in Hong Kong.
6 You'll be given an opportunity to meet the US President.
7 There will be a third world war.

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