Unit 5: Christmas every day
'Have to' and 'must'
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- 1Nice to meet you!
- 2What to wear
- 3Like this, like that
- 4The daily grind
- 5Christmas every day
- 6Great achievers
- 7The Titanic
- 8Travel
- 9The big wedding
- 10Sunny's job hunt
- 11The bucket list
- 12Moving and migration
- 13Welcome to BBC Broadcasting House
- 14New Year, New Project
- 15From Handel to Hendrix
- 16What's the weather like?
- 17The Digital Revolution
- 18A detective story
- 19A place to live
- 20The Cult of Celebrity
- 21Welcome to your new job
- 22Beyond the planets
- 23Great expectations!
- 24Eco-tourism
- 25Moving house
- 26It must be love
- 27Job hunting success... and failure
- 28Speeding into the future
- 29Lost arts
- 30Tales of survival
Session 3
Welcome to Session 3. We're going to look at using must and have to in the past and future. We’ll also bring you a top tip for informal speaking.
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Activity 4
Top tip: Informal English
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In informal British English, we sometimes use have got to instead of have to.
- We have to change the engine oil.
- Weβve got to change the engine oil.
And in even more informal English we sometimes don't even say the have β so it becomes just got to. You might see this in text messages and on social media, for example:
- Got to change the oil.
And thereβs one more way to say this: gotta. Itβs the most informal of all these forms.
- Gotta change the engine oil.
Play the audio to hear Finn saying these example sentences out loud. Practise by reading them aloud with him.
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Back to Aunt Jude. Sheβs just received some text messages. What do they say?
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If you must do something, it is necessary for you to do it, but this is often your opinion or a rule that you have made yourself.
If you have to do something, it is necessary for you to do it. Itβs a law, an obligation or a fact.
If you donβt have to do something, it isnβt necessary to do it, but you can if you want.
If you mustnβt do something, it means βdonβt do itβ. It is necessary not to do it.