The usage of modal verbs must and have to will help you to talk about obligations and responsibilities.
This is meaningful in everyday life of any person. You have to use this in certain situations such as, at work, at school, with your friends or relatives.
In general, remember you need to express and describe your daily activities and duties.
By the end of this topic you will:
• Be able to express obligations and duties as well as to recognise the prohibitions in spoken and written form in different situations, circumstances and places.
This modal verb is considered semi-modal because it needs auxiliaries to make questions or negative sentences in the different tenses.
Have to' shows that the obligation comes from someone else, not the speaker. It is used to talk about obligations and responsibilities. It’s a law or a rule, and the speaker can’t change it.
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In the negative sentences, auxiliary verbs are required.
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Must show us that the obligation comes from the speaker. It isn’t a law or a rule. Besides, it is only used in present and future.
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In negative form Must expresses prohibition about something.
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Activity 1
There are different ways to drive in every single place. For example in London drivers usually drive on their right hand, and this changes the driving instructions as well as the rules. This is why some drivers in America have problems driving in London.
Answer the following questions according to the text, select True (T) or False (F). You can know your score at the end of the exercise.
Activity 2
Look at the following exercise and choose the best option. You can know your score at the end of the exercise.
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Activity 3
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Activity 4
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Example:
● Patrolling designated areas
Answer: Libby has to patrol designated areas.
● Wear a uniform.
Answer: She has to wear a uniform.
Check the rubrics and the uses of MUST and HAVE TO before you write your paper. Then write your essay.
Activity 5
Provide a description of the perfect job you would like to have and describe the responsibilities and obligations of this job. Take into consideration the sentences you did in the previous exercise about Libby’s situation.
Check the rubrics and the uses of MUST and HAVE TO before you write your paper. Then write your essay.
Activity 6
Whenever you get a new job, you need to know about the duties you have to do to take them into consideration and do your best.
Now, you will look at different images, write a list of sentences describing the processes the man in the picture has to do. You can begin as follows:
Continue with the rest of the images. When you have finished, please, make sure your essay has the characteristics described in the rubrics.
Activity 7
Carlos has entered the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the USA. He has to be careful with the prohibition signs in the campus. As you will see some of them are similar to the ones, you have in your country.
Look at the images and mention the actions that are banned in that university.
Record your answers and check them out with the rubrics provided.
Self-assessment 1
Look at the sentences and complete them using must not, have to or must.
Self-assessment 2
Read the following actions while travelling by bus and select the best option. There are some that may have two correct answers.
Self-assessment 3
It is common to see or talk about different situations in our daily life. You have to be sure about the things you must do or have to do, as well as the ones you must not do or do not have to do. So here you have a quiz for checking that information.
Complete the following sentences using must, must not, have to and do not have to. Read and understand the context of the sentences.
British Counsil. (2016). Have to / must. Retrieved on 2017, April 04 from http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar-vocabulary/grammar-videos/have-must-and-should-obligation-and-advice
Inglés Naturalmente. (2015, March 18). Diferencias entre must y have to y mustn’t y don’t have to. Retrieved on 2017, April 04 from http://inglesnaturalmente.com/2015/03/18/diferencias-entre-must-y-have-to-y-mustnt-y-dont-have-to/
ThoughtCo. (2014, December 16). Must - Have to. Retrieved on 2017, April 04 from https://www.thoughtco.com/must-have-to-1211255
English Page.com. (2017). Modal Verbs Exercise 2. Retrieved on 2017, April 04 from http://www.englishpage.com/modals/interactivemodal2.htm