اللغة الإنجليزية فصل أول

Unit 2

Lessons 2-3

Student’s Book pages 19-20

 

                                    GRAMMAR

Modal verbs of possibility: must, might, could, can’t.

● We use must to talk about relative certainty.

It must be diamond!

● We use could to talk about possibility, including strong possibility or probability.

It could be someone who looks like her.

● We use cannot (can’t) to talk about impossibility or negative certainty.

It can’t be amber because amber is found in northern Europe.

 

 

Audioscript

Many people like precious stone, such as diamonds, emeralds and rubies. I have always loved amber. I have a huge collection of more than two hundred pieces-enough precious stones to fill a room. Amber is an unusual precious stone because it doesn’t sparkle with light. It has a rather a dull appearance at first, but when you rub a piece of amber, it shines with a warm, golden light. It also feels warm, not cold, when you touch it. Amber has a surprising secret. Many millions of years ago, amber was a sticky resin inside trees. As this sticky resin came out of the trees, lots of small plants and animals fell into it. After a million years or so, the resin became very hard and fossilized. It is this fossilized resin that we call amber. The plants and animals that fell into it are still inside it, perfectly preserved. Spiders, frogs, flies small lizards, flowers and leaves are still there, exactly as they were in life.

Amber has a long history. Archaeologists have discovered that some people traded amber for food and clothes 6000 years ago, and we also know that the Romans used it in a lot of jewellery. Amber has different colours: gold and orange, white or yellow, brown or black. I have just bought several pieces of red and green amber, which are unusual, but I don’t have any blue amber in my collection yet. It is rare and too expensive.