Modal Verb Can
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Modal VerbCan
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Modal verb + to Infinitive
• Can play tennis
• Must work hard
• May stay
• Should go
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Can Can’t
•Could Couldn’t Past
Polite
Unreal
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Present: I can speak English
Past: I could read when I was 5
What could you do when
you were five?
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Polite form
• Could you repeat that?
• Could you tell me the way to the station?
• Could you tell me the time?
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Unreal form
• If only I could fly!
• I wish I could speak fluent English!
• If I could be free now, I would go to the cinema
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Ability
• I can speak French
• He can swim well
• We can’t do that
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Possibility
• Could / /
• John is late, he could be stuck in traffic
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Request
• Could you speak up, please?
• Can you help me?
• Could you do me a favour?
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Offer
• Can I help you?
• Can I get you a drink?
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Suggestions
We could go to the cinema
We can stay at home and watch TV
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Permission
• You can stay if you like
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Asking for Permission
• Can I stay?
• Can I speak to Nick, please?
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Prohibition
• You can’t go there
• You can’t drink and drive
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Can Be able to
• am was • Is able to able to • are were
• Shall • Will be able to
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Could- Was able to
(Ability in the past)
• Could past repeated action
• Was able to past single action
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Compare:
• He could run very fast when he was young ( He could do it repeatedly in the past)
• She was able to climb to the top of the mountain (= She managed to climb to the top of the mountain)
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Choose the correct answer:
1. Todd was a very talented child.
I know. He….play the piano well
when he was seven.
A couldn’t
B could
C can
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Choose the correct answer:
2.How was the test?
Easy. All the children….pass it
A were able to
B could
C can’t
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Choose the correct answer:
3. What are you doing this summer?
I hope I’ll….go on holiday with my friends
A couldB be able toC can
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Choose the correct answer:
4. I’ve just taken a loaf out of the oven.
Oh , that’s why I …. smell fresh bread when I came home
A could
B was able to C can’t
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