3A: Grammar exercises: Speculation and deduction

 1 Quiz on verbs of speculation and deduction ( and adverbs and adjectives for speculation)


  2  Brain Teasers ( funny scenarios where you have to use your imagination to come up with the real answer) You have to make use of  speculation and deduction expressions in the present and in the past. Just speculate by using some of the expressions  used in the book for each situation.
Example:
A man lived on the twelfth floor of a building. Every day he took the elevator to got to the ground floor to go to work or  to go shopping. when he returned he took the elevator to the eighth floor and walked  up the stairs to reach his apartment. he hated walking, why did he do that, then?

Possible answers:
" he could have forgotten.... "
"He can't possibly have had...."