2. It must be love

2. It must be love

Self-Assessment activity

Let's start with a song! Listen to the song It must be love, by Madness, and put the different paragraphs in order.

a	It must be love, love, love It must be love, love, love Nothing more, nothing less Love is the best	e	I've got to be near you Every night, every day I couldn't be happy Any other way
b	It must be love, love, love It must be love, love, love Nothing more, nothing less Love is the best	f	I never thought I'd miss you Half as much as I do And I never thought I'd feel this way The way I feel About you
c	As soon as I wake up Every night, every day I know that it's you I need To take the blues away	g	It must be love, love, love It must be love, love, love It must be love, love, love... (repeat)
d	As soon as I wake up Every night, every day I know that it's you I need To take the blues away	h	How can it be that we can Say so much without words? Bless you and bless me Bless the bees And the birds

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Reflexión

Focus on the title, which is repeated many times in the song.

It must be love.

1- Think of the meaning of 'must' in the song. Have a look at the rest of the lyrics for a better understanding. Does it mean...?

a) Obligation.

b) Possibility.

c) Deduction.

2- Which other modal verbs can have the same function?

Solved exercise

Now we are going to study another function of modal verbs. Let's remember the three modal verbs we saw in the reading text in the introduction:

What is Paco going to do in this city? We don't know yet but here are some possibilities:

He could visit the area called Yorkville, full of restaurants, galleries and shops.

Or he might experience the main tourist attraction in Canada: the Niagara Falls.

1- What are these three modal verbs expressing?

2- Can you think of any other modal verb to express the same meaning?

Important

Both 'may' and 'might' indicate a possibility but 'might' implies a more remote possibility than 'may'.

He may come.

He might come. (more remote)

Self-Assessment activity

We are going to practice these modal verbs of deduction and possibility we have just learned in this section. Choose the correct option:

1. There are a lot of people in the shops. There _________ be good sales.

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2. I'm not sure if Tom is coming. He __________ come later.

3. Sarah is talking to a blond guy. Her boyfriend has black hair so it ________ be him.

4. Once you are in Toronto, you __________ visit the Niagara falls.

Further knowledge

Practice some exercises on modal verbs of deduction and possibility!

Exercise 2

Let's see modal verbs expressing obligation, prohibition and advice in the next section!