1.Underline the correct option. Explain your choice/

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Can/Could Sally learn a long poem by heart when she was four? When Mrs. Rover was a teenager she couldn’t/can’t play the piano. John says he could/can speak French perfectly well. What can/could Melody do when she was nine? Yesterday Molly couldn’t/can’t borrow a book from the local library because she hadn’t returned another one. Rita said she couldn’t/can’t learn that because she was busy.

2.Fill in can / can't/ could/ couldn't. Translate sentences

1) You don’t need to shout. I ______ hear you perfectly well. 2) We______ go to safari because the trip was too expensive. 3) He eats in restaurants because he ______ cook. 4) I had an aisle seat on the plane, so I ______see the landscape below. 5) When we used to live in China, I______ speak some Chinese, but now I______ say a word. 6) ______ you play the piano at the age of six? 7) He______ speak English so fast that I______understand him (now). 8) I’m afraid, Nickolas ______talk to you now. He has to arrive at school in time. 9) I______get a good mark in Literature because I didn’t know the theme. 10) I______retell my friend the whole story because I had read it.

3.Put the words in the correct order to make sentences. Translate them

Mark / seven / by / could / speak / foreign / of / age / fifteen / languages / well / the / perfectly.

phone / use /mobile / a / you / when / you / were / four / Could?

my / girl / mum / swim / was / little / a / well / When / she / could.

age / the / is / three / Nobody / to / climb / trees / at / of / able.

4. Fill the gaps with A) can B) could D) couldn’t E) be able to C) can’t. Translate sentences.

It’s highly dangerous! Mark stepped aside so that Molly _________ go in. Peter and Greg ________ catch fish as they had fish hooks. Sandy used to _________ speak Norwegian well. Megan ________lie comfortably as the raft was small. Meredith _________ wash her hair as she hadn’t bought shampoo. Mary _________ stop crying then. When Megan was an infant, she_________only cry. In a year, Melody will_________ speak Chinese. The information _________ be true! I don’t believe Nickolas. Jane ________read any of the books she’ borrowed from Greg. Melody’s brother__________ understand her ambitions. Why don’t you ask Sally? Sally might _________ help you. Benny ________walk because of sharp pain in his left foot, that’s why he got a taxi. Bob wasn’t ________ make his decision yesterday. Michael __________now speak Norwegian rather fluently. Michael used to _________ speak Norwegian rather fluently. Nick __________marry Lisa, but he__________make her love him. Sally used to__________eat a kilo of chocolate for lunch. Megan’d like to __________ surf very well. Luckily Melody __________find a taxi. Jillian __________drive when she was 12. Megan sighed. Fred __________ feel her hands shaking. The secretary ________ to type 150 words a minute. Children ________ enter this territory.