Deductions - past tense

MAKING DEDUCTIONS (past tense)

• example:
• Five years ago, Larry Wallace was very poor. Now he's a millionaire.
• He must have been very lucky.
• He might have married a rich woman.
• He may have been successful in business.
• He could have robbed a bank.
• He can't have gone bankrupt.
• etc...

Slide 2

• Mr and Mrs Sullivan are very worried. Their daughter, Judith, usually gets home from school at 4.30. It's 6 o'clock and she hasn't arrived yet.

Slide 3

• Sam can't stop laughing.

Slide 4

• Neil phoned his boss at 9 o'clock and said he was too ill to come to work. At 9.30 his boss phoned Neil's house, and there was no reply.

Slide 5

• Greg made a date with Penny. They arranged to meet outside the cinema at 7.30. It's 8 o'clock and she hasn't turned up.

Slide 6

• Elizabeth has just read a letter, and she's crying.

Slide 7

• Jake Rowley robbed a bank, hijacked a plane and parachuted out over the Amazon jungle. He's never been seen since.

Slide 8

• The Lanstable painting 'Norfolk Sunset', which was stolen two years ago, is still missing. It is so famous that it is impossible to sell.

Slide 9

• Five years ago, Francis Wright was a millionaire. Now he's penniless.

Slide 10

• A woman has just wandered into a London police station. She has no documents or identification, but is wearing good clothes. She's lost her memory.

Slide 11

• Bob Cole escaped from prison. The police checked all the airports and ports, but they weren't able to find him.

Slide 12

• Terry Singleton was shipwrecked, and survived on a desert island alone for two years before he was rescued.

Slide 13

• Daisy Armfield was on television last night. She said she was born in 1890.

Slide 14

• At 5 o'clock in the morning, on an empty motorway, a car crashed into a bridge at 170kph. The driver was killed.

Slide 15

• Valerie Simpson has just been sent to prison for 35 years.

Slide 16

• The Queen has just given Herbert Thomas a medal for bravery.
• The Queen has just given Herbert Thomas a medal for bravery.

Slide 17

• A woman has just run into the street, screaming.

Slide 18

• Someone on the radio has just said he had seen a man 3 metres tall.