WARM-UP VIDEO FOR MODAL VERBS 'CAN', 'COULD' AND 'SHOULD'

Instructions. Modal verbs 'can', 'could' and 'should' often sound very close to 'kn', 'kd' and 'shd' in fast speech. Listen and fill the gaps with one of these modal verbs and a frequent verb.

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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.

time. I sleep very little on the trip. I usually do long weekends so I'll do a Friday to Monday because I (1) ………….. away from work during that time. And I'll use every waking hour I can possible focused on shooting this agenda that I've mapped out for myself. I try to avoid driving during Where can you get up high in the city? So do a little bit of research. Is there a bar? In San Francisco, our own city up here, you (2) ………….. to the top of the Marriott; there's a great view from up there. They have a bar up there. There are some places you (3) ………….. on top of the Mandarin Hotel in San Francisco. Which has a wonderful view down on the TransAmerica building. So hotels are also great for getting on the top of because a lot of times you (4) ………….. into a hotel. It's not like an office building where they've got security and everything. And you can frequently find your way onto a roof. I find -- I know this sounds crazy. I find 50, 60 times and yes, you're probably technically trespassing and all that, but 50, 60 percent of the time you (5) ………….. on most hotel roofs and those are some great places to take shots. We'll do some of those from the roofs and stuff sometimes. I think if you're not freaked out". Fine. So and the fish eye are some new lens I got. I've kind of been going crazy with it. So you (6) ………….. super close. So one I did to get people is find festivals and events like this. So Decompression in the City. Burning Man happens every like that. I found the vast protests. Protests are great. I was shooting the Occupy San Francisco protest yesterday. I mean, you (7) ………….. right in the cop's face with the camera, right in the protester's face with the camera. You (8) ………….. some compelling, engaging portraits. This guy, by the way, was completely naked except he was covered in silver. I'm not going to show you the picture from lower down, [laughter] and scram too. Sometimes you shoot and scram. You gotta takemoff. But I think -- if you really look for it there's really enough events that you (9) ………….. . These are shots that I took in Houston. I love shooting street art and graffiti so I look for that ahead of time. Look for where I just bam took it. So sometimes I'll just take photographs, too. I love cemeteries. I'll shoot in cemeteries. There's wonderful statuary you (10) ………….. sometimes. Here's a weeping angel, I think it's in Evergreen Cemetery, maybe, Houston. --Yeah? >> Female #1: So one of the things to do [inaudible]. That's a good thing. That's something I've learned with photographing online. There are some things Flickr does really right I think. And that I think Google really (11) ………….. a look at and some places where I think they are doing it right. I think it's easy to blog and embed their photos right there from the photo. You (12) ………….. an embed code and put it on your blog. Now I've been blogging some of my Google+ photos but I've had to custom create that HTML and so I mean, we got hangouts at Google+. I can have all these people in a room and show the picture rightthere and people (13)………….. it. So you know I mention they have bad blocking tools. Ability to -- you know, the other issue that's come up a little bit with Google and is sort of a controversial they've just created filters. So if I want to do adult-oriented content, I'll mark it as adult-oriented content. If people opt into that thing then they (14) ………….. it and if they don't, then they don't see it. And it's filtered out. And that will work. I don't think that's worked just say hey Scott, you mind processing this photo? And he'll be like yeah sure, and there you go. [laughter] And he'll jump right in. And he's very good. But you (15) ………….. and go, "hey, what did you just do there? What did you brush there?" I think Lightroom. There's a lot of people that >>Male #9: [inaudible] >>Thomas Hawk: Yeah. Again so much of it post processing. I mean, you (16) ………….. a photograph, you know let's say this photograph right here. And we can go to the develop module and we can go up here to our temperature on the shoot. I wonder what I've got in my library right now. Yeah. Nothing really worth showing there. You know, if I have a shoot -- yeah, I (17) …………... If I take 5,000 photographs and end up processing 1,000, the time to go through each 5,000 and flag them all. I mean, there's

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time. I sleep very little on the trip. I usually do long weekends so I'll do a Friday to Monday because I (1) (can get) away from work during that time. And I'll use every waking hour I can possible focused on shooting this agenda that I've mapped out for myself. I try to avoid driving during Where can you get up high in the city? So do a little bit of research. Is there a bar? In San Francisco, our own city up here, you (2) (can get) to the top of the Marriott; there's a great view from up there. They have a bar up there. There are some places you (3) (can get) on top of the Mandarin Hotel in San Francisco. Which has a wonderful view down on the TransAmerica building. So hotels are also great for getting on the top of because a lot of times you (4) (can get) into a hotel. It's not like an office building where they've got security and everything. And you can frequently find your way onto a roof. I find -- I know this sounds crazy. I find 50, 60 times and yes, you're probably technically trespassing and all that, but 50, 60 percent of the time you (5) (can get) on most hotel roofs and those are some great places to take shots. We'll do some of those from the roofs and stuff sometimes. I think if you're not freaked out". Fine. So and the fish eye are some new lens I got. I've kind of been going crazy with it. So you (6) (can get) super close. So one I did to get people is find festivals and events like this. So Decompression in the City. Burning Man happens every like that. I found the vast protests. Protests are great. I was shooting the Occupy San Francisco protest yesterday. I mean, you (7) (can get) right in the cop's face with the camera, right in the protester's face with the camera. You (8) (can get) some compelling, engaging portraits. This guy, by the way, was completely naked except he was covered in silver. I'm not going to show you the picture from lower down, [laughter] and scram too. Sometimes you shoot and scram. You gotta take off. But I think -- if you really look for it there's really enough events that you (9) (can find) . These are shots that I took in Houston. I love shooting street art and graffiti so I look for that ahead of time. Look for where I just bam took it. So sometimes I'll just take photographs, too. I love cemeteries. I'll shoot in cemeteries. There's wonderful statuary you (10) (can find) sometimes. Here's a weeping angel, I think it's in Evergreen Cemetery, maybe, Houston. --Yeah? >> Female #1: So one of the things to do [inaudible]. That's a good thing. That's something I've learned with photographing online. There are some things Flickr does really right I think. And that I think Google really (11) (should take) a look at and some places where I think they are doing it right. I think it's easy to blog and embed their photos right there from the photo. You (12) (can get) an embed code and put it on your blog. Now I've been blogging some of my Google+ photos but I've had to custom create that HTML and so I mean, we got hangouts at Google+. I can have all these people in a room and show the picture right there and people (13) (can see) it. So you know I mention they have bad blocking tools. Ability to -- you know, the other issue that's come up a little bit with Google and is sort of a controversial they've just created filters. So if I want to do adult-oriented content, I'll mark it as adult-oriented content. If people opt into that thing then they (14) (can see) it and if they don't, then they don't see it. And it's filtered out. And that will work. I don't think that's worked just say hey Scott, you mind processing this photo? And he'll be like yeah sure, and there you go. [laughter] And he'll jump right in. And he's very good. But you (15) (can see) and go, "hey, what did you just do there? What did you brush there?" I think Lightroom. There's a lot of people that >>Male #9: [inaudible] >>Thomas Hawk: Yeah. Again so much of it post processing. I mean, you (16) (can take) a photograph, you know let's say this photograph right here. And we can go to the develop module and we can go up here to our temperature on the shoot. I wonder what I've got in my library right now. Yeah. Nothing really worth showing there. You know, if I have a shoot -- yeah, I (17) (can take) . If I take 5,000 photographs and end up processing 1,000, the time to go through each 5,000 and flag them all. I mean, there's

Sources: 

Channel: Talks at Google. Photography@Google: Thomas Hawk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rlj40LHIg0

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