Modal verbs
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Ex. 8. Revision: render the text using modal verbs wherever possible.
Ex. 7. Learn the proverbs by heart. Make up your own stories, illustrating the proverbs. Use modal verbs.
1. What is done cannot be undone. — Çðîáëåíîãî íå ïîâåðíåø.
2. A bird may be known by its song. — Ïòàõ âèäíèé ïî ïîëüîòó.
3. As you make your bed, so you must lie on it. — Ùî ïîñ³ºø, òå é ïîæíåø.
4. If the sky falls, we shall catch larks. — ßêáè, òàê êàáè …
5. It would make even a cat laugh... — Êóðÿì íà ñì³õ.
Two students had spent all their money and could not pay for their dinner. So they thought hard and at last one of them said, «I have found a way to satisfy the landlord».
When the landlord came in, the student said: «We are scholars, and by our studies we have discovered that things every hundred years return to the same state, therefore you will be a landlord here, and we will come and pay you».
«I am a scholar myself», said the landlord, «and I have found that a hundred years ago you came to me, dined and went out without paying. So I will not let you go until you pay me the bill of the last century».
The students, finding that they were beaten with their own weapon, had to send a messenger to the college to borrow the money and pay the bill.
1. You will ___ speak Spanish in another few months.
A can C be able to
B have D ought
2. I'd like ___ skate.
A to can C to have to
B to be able to D could
3. Nobody answers the phone. They ___ be out.
A should C can
B would D must
4. I'm sorry, I ___ have phoned to tell you I was coming.
A should to C had to
B ought to D could
5. To my mind, the government ___ take care of old people.
A ought C must
B need to D may
6. I ___ get up early on Mondays.
A am able C must
B have to D may
7. The policeman told the woman she ___ worry.
A needn't C couldn't
B needn't to D mustn't
8. ___ you mind passing me the salt?
A will C could
B should D would
9. As you ___ remember, I was always interested in scientific experiments.
A may C must
B have to D ought to
10. Little children like books with large print. They ___ read them more easily.
A should C can
B must D have to
11. ___ I speak to Jane, please?
A could C must
B shall D ought
12. My dentist says I ___ eat so many sweets.
A needn't C ought not
B mustn't D shouldn't
13. — Why hasn't Mr. Grill got in touch with us?
— I don't quite know. It ___ be that he has lost our phone number.
A may C must
B ought to D should
14. — Liz seems to be avoiding you.
— I can't tell you for certain. She ___ have been hurt by my words about her boyfriend.
A should C might
B must D neddn't
15. She ___ translate the text next week.
A will be able to C have to
B is able to D can
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