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Hey, guys! This is Jack from to fluency.com and welcome to this English
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lesson where we're going to look at the
phrase 'be supposed to' This phrase is
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very popular in spoken English - native
speakers and proficient speakers use
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this a lot so what we're going to do is
go through a lot of examples so that you
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can better understand how to use it. Here
is the first example now..
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The Leicester Supremacy - a triumph that was never supposed to happen. The headline
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said: A triumph that was never supposed to
happen. Now, to give you some context
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Leicester City won the Premier League
title. It was never expected - it wasn't
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intended to happen and that's why we use
supposed to because we use this when it
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wasn't intended to happen and it is
stronger than expect.
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It's saying like it was impossible - a
triumph that was never supposed to
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happen. So, let's have a look at some
other examples using supposed to and you're
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going to see the different ways that you
can use it...
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You're supposed to be at the meeting. Now, in this case, it's like an obligation
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that's where you are meant to be, you are
supposed to be at the meeting. Here is
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another example: I'm supposed to finish
this by seven. Again, it's an obligation
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you can also say I meant to finish this
by seven. Now, thinking about this in the
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past, I was supposed to finish this by
seven - so it's used in the same way like
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an obligation but in this case, it's in
the past. And finally, you're not supposed
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to look up the answers - you're not
supposed to look up the answers. This can
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be used in tests and it's basically
saying it's not permitted.
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Oh, I have one more for you: I thought this
was supposed to be hard - it was expected
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or intended to be hard. I thought this
was supposed to be hard. So, you can see
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the woman in the picture
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smiling as she exercises - she thought it
was going to be hard so she says:
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I thought this was supposed to be hard.
Now what suggest you do now is take a
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look at this video with another phrase:
be or get used to something this is a
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great phrase to know and the link to
that video is in the description. So,
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thank you for watching this lesson and
I'll see you next time!
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