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UNIT 5: LANGUAGE PRACTICE

Modal verbs: ability, possibility and obligation


1 Choose the correct form from the boxes to fill the gaps (more than one answer may be possible). will be able to 1 2 3 4 wont be able to can cant drive much faster and still be safe!

My new car has anti-lock brakes so I

By the end of this holiday, I drive with any confidence any more. Ive had such a terrible time trying to drive on the right-hand side of the road! Why dont you telephone the travel agent? Im sure they Next year, you might not could help you.

book your tickets online using your credit card. could not use my scooter.

might 5 6

Im not sure how Im going to travel to my new job yet. I

Even if the speed limit is reduced to 30 miles per hour, the experts believe it still make any difference to the number of people who are killed there every year. If the local council put more speed cameras on that road, it safer. That plan worked on the other side of the city. will need to wont have to wont need to cant make it

will have to 8 9 10

The scooter is too slow so we

take the motorbike. check in until 3 p.m.

We dont need to get to the hotel quickly as we anyway.

Theres a cheap and really convenient shuttle bus between the airport and the city take a taxi when we arrive. centre, so we was/were able to

could 11 12

Because of the anti-lock brakes, she stop safely without skidding and she wasnt even hurt even though shed been travelling at 65 miles per hour. When we used to travel everywhere by coach, we the country really cheaply. managed to get to the airport without being sick. reaching London travel the length of

succeeded in 13 14

The turbulence was awful but we We had a puncture on the motorway but we still before midnight. didnt have to couldnt must

had to 15 16 17 18

Because of the rough weather, the ferry

leave the port. wait for permission

Because of the fogbound runway last night, the pilot to take off.

Because he travelled to Edinburgh by helicopter, he arrived before everyone else and sit in those terrible tailbacks on the motorway. he When the train went into a tunnel, I get a signal on my mobile phone.

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