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7A. As a matter of fact…

C1 · Advanced · permission, obligation & necessity · word-formation prefixes

Unit 7 · Epigraph
"To disagree with an 'obviously' is, awkwardly, to appear a little slow."
— from an essay on the language of meetings, 2024
Objectives

What you'll be able to do

5 min
  • Use the full range of modals for permission, obligation and necessity accurately (must, have to, be allowed to, be supposed to, be to, ought to, needn't have).
  • Recognise — and produce — at least eight productive prefixes (mis-, over-, under-, dis-, anti-, pre-, ex-, un-).
  • Discuss the small ways confident language is used to skip an argument.
  • Follow, summarise and react to a TED talk on how to think honestly.
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