My first physical education lesson
I remember my first physical education lesson perfectly. I was really impressed by the gym and by my teacher. The gym was fully-equipped: the rings, the vaulting horse, the parallel bars, the wall bars. My teacher was a fit young boy. He was as fit as a fiddle. 'Good morning,' he said, 'Let me introduce myself. I'm your physical education teacher and my name is Ken. This year we are going to use all the equipment you can see and you must train hard to pass the subject easily. There are some rules you have to keep. The first one is that you have to wear your school track suits and gym shoes during the gym hour. The second one is that you mustn't do any dangerous exercise without my consent because you may hurt yourselves. You must be careful. And the third one is that you have to take care of all the equipment. You mustn't play with the rope or the trampoline because they may break. I'm sure that if you follow my instructions and my advice, we'll enjoy together'.'My God!,' I thought. 'I must train hard. I want to be like him'.Today, twenty years after that first gymnastics lesson, I'm still trying to be as fit as my PE teacher was.
| Affirmative | | | | | | Speaker´s
feelings | | External
Obligation | | Present | must | | have/has to
have/has got to | | Past | | had to
had got to | | | Future | must | | shall/will have to | | Questions | | | | | | Speaker´s
feelings | | External
Obligation | | Present | must? | | do/does ... have to?
have/has ... got to? | | Past | | did ... have to?
had ... got to? | | | Future | must? | | shall / will have to? |
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| Uses | • We use must followed by a bare infinitive to express obligation in the present and future when the obligation is imposed by the speaker. When the obligation comes from a situation, that is to say, it is an external obligation, we use have to or have got to. Have to can be used for both habitual and single actions, but have got to is only used for single actions.
• If the obligation comes from the speaker´s feelings or it is an external obligation, it cannot be expressed in any other verb tense.
• Must not (or mustn´t) expresses a negative obligation imposed by the speaker. |
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