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Modal Verbs. 4. Choose the correct option: can, could, might: affirmative and negative. 5. Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the modal verbs: can, be able, could, may, will.
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Modal Verbs
4. Choose the correct option: can, could, might: affirmative and negative.
1. A greater understanding of our findings can / couldlead to a theoretical improvement. 2. Further studies are needed to determine whether these findings could / mightbe applied to mechanical components. 3. Our findings could / mightbe applied quite reliably in other engineering contexts without a significant degradation in performance. 4. These findings could / mightbe exploited in any situation where predictions of outcomes are needed. 5. We only had a limited number of samples. A greater number of samples can / couldlead to a different set of conclusions.
5. Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the modal verbs: can, be able, could, may, will.
1. I ________be wrong, but I don’t think so. 2. I will ________ tell you tomorrow. 3. He ________speak ten languages. 4. I hope to ________ to see her tomorrow. 5. She has never ________ to do this. 6. I ________ see that you like this one. 7. If I knew the answer I ________ tell you. 8. I ________come at 6. 0 if you like. 9. We ________ go the US next year but I’m not sure. 10. In five years’ time inflation ________ be at over 15%.
6. Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the modal verbs: can, could, may, must, have to.
1. It ________ not have been him you saw, he’s left the country. 2. You should be more careful, you ________ have had an accident. 3. You ________ be right, but it still seems strange to me. 4. You ________ send the amount to us via a wire transfer. This ________ only be used for payments in US dollars. 5. I realize you ________ very busy at the moment but if you could spare a moment I would be most grateful. 6. We ________ work tomorrow because it’s a public holiday. 7. You ________touch that it will give you an electric shock. 8. We generally ________ be at work before 09. 30. 9. You ________ visit this website, it’s really interesting. 10. You ________ come and see us when you’re next in town.
READING AND SPEAKING
1. KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT
7. Read the text and give the definition of e-knowledge.
A Revolution in Knowledge Sharing
The pressure to transform our institutions of learning continues. Virtually every enterprise and institution is grappling with the disruptions and opportunities caused by Web-enabled infrastructures and practices. New best practices, business models, innovations, and strategies are emerging, including new ways to acquire, assimilate, and share knowledge. Using technologies that are already developed or that will be deployed over the next five years, best practices in knowledge sharing not only are diffusing rapidly but will be substantially reinvented in all settings: educational institutions, corporations, government organizations, associations, and nonprofits. But institutions of learning are in a unique position to benefit from an added opportunity: providing leadership in e-knowledge.
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E-knowledge finds expression in many shapes and forms in a profoundly networked world. It is not just a digitized collection of knowledge. E-knowledge consists of knowledge objects and knowledge flows that combine content, context, and insights on application. E-knowledge also emerges from interactivity within and among communities of practice and from the troves of tacit knowledge and tradecraft that can be understood only through conversations with knowledgeable practitioners. E-knowing is the act of achieving understanding by interacting with individuals, communities of practice, and knowledge in a networked world. E-knowledge commerce consists of the transactions based on the sharing of knowledge. These transactions can involve the exchange of digital content/context and/or tacit knowledge through interactivity.
Transactable e-knowledge can be exchanged for free. E-knowledge is enabling not only the emergence of new best practices but also the reinvention of the fundamental business models and strategies that exist for e-learning and knowledge management. E-knowledge is technologically realized by the fusion of e-learning and knowledge management and through the networking of knowledge workers. Transactable e-knowledge and knowledge net-working will become the lifeblood of knowledge sharing. They will create a vibrant market for e-knowledge commerce and will stimulate dramatic changes in the knowledge ecologies of enterprises of all kinds. They will support a “Knowledge Economy” based on creating, distributing, and adding value to knowledge, the very activities in which colleges and universities are engaged. Yet few colleges and universities have taken sufficient account of the need to use their knowledge assets to achieve strategic differentiation.
In It Doesn’t Matter, a recent article in Harvard Business Review, Nicholas G. Carr endorsed corporate leaders’ growing view that information technology offers only limited potential for strategic differentiation. Similar points are starting to be made about e-learning, and knowledge management has been under fire as ineffectual for some time. The truth is that e-learning and knowledge management can provide strategic differentiation only if they drive genuine innovation and business practice changes that yield greater value for learners. Carr’s article provoked a host of contrary responses, including a letter from John Seely Brown and John Hagel III. Brown is well-known for his insights into the ways in which knowledge sharing can provide organizations with a solid basis for strategic differentiation.
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