Добрый день, Елена Юрьевна!
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Хорошего Вам дня, не болейте!
Exercise 1. Underline the correct option.
1. Could Sally learn a long poem by heart when she was four?
2. When Mrs. Rover was a teenager she couldn’t play the piano.
3. John says he can speak French perfectly well.
4. What could Melody do when she was nine?
5. Yesterday Molly couldn’t borrow a book from the local library because she
hadn’t returned another one.
6. Rita said she couldn’t learn that because she was busy.
Exercise 2. Fill in can / can't/ could/ couldn't.
1) You don’t need to shout. I can hear you perfectly well. 2) We__couldn’t____
go to safari because the trip was too expensive. 3) He eats in restaurants because
he __can’t___ cook. 4) I had an aisle seat on the plane, so I _could__see the
landscape below. 5) When we used to live in China, I_could____ speak some
Chinese, but now I_can’t___ say a word. 6) _Could__ you play the piano at the
age of six? 7) He_can__ speak English so fast that I_can’t__understand him
(now). 8) I’m afraid, Nickolas _can’t__talk to you now. He has to arrive at
school in time. 9) I_couldn’t__get a good mark in Literature because I didn’t
know the theme. 10) I_could_retell my friend the whole story because I had read
it.
Exercise 3. Put the words in the correct order to make sentences.
1. Mark / seven / by / could / speak / foreign / of / age / fifteen / languages /
well / the / perfectly.
Ответ: Mark could speak sever foreign language perfectly well by the age of
fifteen.
2. phone / use /mobile / a / you / when / you / were / four / Could?
Could you use a mobile phone when you were four.
3. my / girl / mum / swim / was / little / a / well / When / she / could.
When my mum was a little girl she could swim well.
4. age / the / is / three / Nobody / to / climb / trees / at / of / able.
Nobody is able to climb trees at the age of thee.
Упражнения на can, could и be able to.
Exercise 4. Fill in “will be able” or “won’t be able” + to
1. When her sight is better, Melody __will be able to______ play the guitar
again.
2. Max __ won’t be able _______ eat sugar when the GP allows him.
3. The couple __ won’t be able _______ catch the morning bus if they
don’t get up much earlier.
4. Sally __ won’t be able _______ go out to discos until she is 16.
5. Andy __ will be able to _______ hear better if he sits in the front row.
Exercise. 5
A) can B) could D) couldn’t E) be able to C) can’t
1. Mark stepped aside so that Molly __couldn’t_______ go in.
2. Peter and Greg __could______ catch fish as they had fish hooks.
3. Sandy used to __be able to_______ speak Norwegian well.
4. Megan _could _______lie comfortably as the raft was small.
5. Meredith __couldn’t____ wash her hair as she hadn’t bought shampoo.
6. Mary _couldn’t________ stop crying then.
7. When Megan was an infant, she__could_______only cry.
8. In a year, Melody will_ be able to ______ speak Chinese.
9. The information __can’t_______ be true! I don’t believe Nickolas.
10.Jane _could__read any of the books she’d borrowed from Greg.
11. Melody’s brother_can’t_________ understand her ambitions.
12. Why don’t you ask Sally? Sally might __be able to_______ help you.
13. Benny _couldn’t_______walk because of sharp pain in his left foot, that’s
why he got a taxi.
14. Bob wasn’t __be able to______ make his decision yesterday.
Exercise 6. Insert can, could, be able to in a necessary form.
1. Michael __can________now speak Norwegian rather fluently.
2. Michael used to ___be able to______ speak Norwegian rather fluently.
3. Nick _can_________marry Lisa, but he_can’t_________make her love
him. Так же, я думаю, что можно употребить и Could ( в первом
случае) / Couldn’t ( во втором случае)
4. Sally used to__be able to________eat a kilo of chocolate for lunch.
5. Megan’d like to __be able to________ surf very well.
6. Luckily Melody __could ________find a taxi.
7. Jillian __could________drive when she was 12.
8. Megan sighed. Fred _could_________ feel her hands shaking.
9. The secretary _is able_____ to type 150 words a minute.
10.Children ___can’t_____ enter this territory. It’s highly dangerous!
Exercise 7. Translate the words in brackets. Use can or be able to in a
necessary form.
1. Children (нельзя) discuss such things.
Children Mustn’t discuss such things
2. Certainly, Nick (мог) translate that article.
Certainly, Nick Could have translate that article
3. (мог бы) Nick show me that? (polite)
Could Nick show me that?
4. Molly (не могла) wait for us.
Molly Couldn’t wait for us
5. You (можете) get there in 10 minutes.
You Can get there in 10 minutes
6. The swimmer (смог) reach the sea shore.
The swimmer Was able to reach the sea shore
7. Steven (мог) work fifteen hours a day before his illness
Steven Could work fifteen hours a day before his illness
