Questions starting with the word can

Use can every time regardless the subject.

Auxiliary	Subject	Verb	Rest	Short answer
Can	you	speak	English?	Yes,	I	can.
Can	you	climb	a tree?	No, No,	I I	can‘t. cannot.
Can	he	play	rugby?	Yes,	he	can.
Can	Mandy	read	poems?	Yes,	she	can.
Can	they	sing	nice songs?	No, No,	they they	can‘t. cannot.

In WH-questions (questions with question words) can goes after the question word.

Question word	Auxiliary	Subject	Verb	Rest	Answer
What	can	they	ride?		They can ride skateboards.
Where	can	Frank	play	the trumpet?	Frank can play the trumpet in his room.
When	can	she	see	her friends?	She can see her friends after school.

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Сегодня мы поработаем над модальными глаголами и, в частности над глаголом can. Вначале мы рассмотрим употребление can и выполним can упражнения для детей, а затем перейдем к более сложным аспектам – употребление can и could для выражения вероятности, а также отработаем употребление конструкции be able to вместо can.

Can упражнения для детей. Can exercises.

Упражнение 1. Write in can or can’t.

1. I _______ draw.
2. I _______  
3. My friends_______ roller-skate.
4. My granddad _______sing.
5. I_______ ride a bike.
6. My mum _______ski.
7. My dad _______skate.
8. My pet _______play football.

Упражнение 2. Answer the questions.

1. Can you roller-skate?
2. Can your mum dance tango?
3. Can your dad draw very well?
4. Can your friends play tennis?
5. Can your granny speak English?
6. Can you sing very well?

Упражнение 3. Постарайся составить как можно больше вопросов. Три из них напиши.

Сап

you he the horse the hare

see that elephant? take those bears? play with these toys? jump? run?

Упражнение 4. What can or can’t you do in these places? Make sentence.  Use You can / You can’t

buy flowers buy bread and cakes buy medicine wash your clothes buy meat

butcher’s baker’s florist’s launderette chemist’s

Упражнения на can и could.

Помните, could – это прошедшее время от can!

Упражнение 5. Underline the correct option.

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

Упражнение 6.  Fill in can / can’t/ could/ couldn’t.

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). 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.

Упражнение 7. Put the words in the correct order to make sentences.

1. Mark / seven / by / could / speak / foreign / of / age / fifteen / languages / well / the / perfectly.
2. phone / use /mobile / a / you / when / you / were / four / Could?
3. my / girl / mum / swim / was / little / a / well / When / she / could.
4. age / the / is / three / Nobody / to / climb / trees / at / of / able.

Упражнения на can, could и be able to.

Упражнение 8. Вставьте will be able или won’t be able + to

1. When her sight is better, Melody ________ play the guitar again.
2. Max _________ eat sugar when the GP allows him.
3. The couple _________ catch the morning bus if they don’t get up much earlier.
4. Sally _________ go out to discos until she is 16.
5. Andy _________ hear better if he sits in the front row.

Упражнение. 9

A) can B) could D) couldn’t E) be able to C) can’t

1. Mark stepped aside so that Molly _________ go in.
2. Peter and Greg ________ catch fish as they had fish hooks.
3. Sandy used to _________ speak Norwegian well.
4. Megan ________lie comfortably as the raft was small.
5. Meredith _________ wash her hair as she hadn’t bought shampoo.
6. Mary _________ stop crying then.
7. When Megan was an infant, she_________only cry.
8. In a year, Melody will_________ speak Chinese.
9. The information _________ be true! I don’t believe Nickolas.
10. Jane ________read any of the books she’d borrowed from Greg.
11. Melody’s brother__________ understand her ambitions.
12. Why don’t you ask Sally? Sally might _________ help you.
13. Benny ________walk because of sharp pain in his left foot, that’s why he got a taxi.
14. Bob wasn’t ________ make his decision yesterday.

Упражнение 10. Вставьте can, could, be able to в нужной форме.

1. Michael __________now speak Norwegian rather fluently.
2. Michael used to _________ speak Norwegian rather fluently.
3. Nick __________marry Lisa, but he__________make her love him.
4. Sally used to__________eat a kilo of chocolate for lunch.
5. Megan’d like to __________ surf very well.
6. Luckily Melody __________find a taxi.
7. Jillian __________drive when she was 12.
8. Megan sighed. Fred __________ feel her hands shaking.
9. The secretary ________ to type 150 words a minute.
10. Children ________ enter this territory. It’s highly dangerous!

Упражнение 11.  Translate the words in brackets. Используйте  can или  be able в нужной форме.

1. Children (нельзя) discuss such things.
2. Certainly, Nick (мог) translate that article.
3. (мог бы) Nick show me that? (polite)
4. Molly (не могла) wait for us.
5. You (можете) get there in 10 minutes.
6. The swimmer (смог) reach the sea shore.
7. Steven (мог) work fifteen hours a day before his illness

Упражнения на can / could + нужная форма инфинитива.

Упражнение 12. Find the right option.

1. Seventeen people looked at each other and no one _________ words to say.
2. a) could have found b) could find
3. The wind was still blowing but Philip _____________ no sound of rain.
4. a) could have heard b) could hear
5. The police were quite sure that nobody __________ house before they got there.
6. a) could leave b) could have left
7. We ______________ anything definite out of their neighbors.
8. a) couldn’t get b) couldn’t have got

Упражнение 13. Вставьте could + нужную форму инфинитива.

1. If Greg had prepared all the documents, he _____________ (get) a credit.
2. Greg ___________ (be) there tomorrow.
3. Greg ____________ (be) there yesterday.
4. If Molly had told us about her delay, we _________ (cancel) the meeting.
5. Yesterday Greg _________ (crash).

Can / could для выражения вероятности.

Упражнение 14. Выразите сомнения при помощи can/could.

1. Едва ли Салли была дома.
2. Возможно, он навестит бывшую жену, когда приедет в Сочи.
3. Разве Николас мог такое сказать?
4. Разве Катерина отказалась ехать с тобой?
5. Василий мог бы заехать завтра.
6. Салли не могла так быстро прочесть роман.
7. Не может быть, что Грег попал в аварию.

Ответы к упражнениям.

Exercises 1 – 4 – your own answers.

Exercise 5.

1 -> Could, 2 -> couldn’t, 3 -> can, 4 -> could, 5 -> couldn’t, 6 -> couldn’t

Exercise 6.

1 -> can, 2 -> couldn’t, 3 -> can’t 4 ->couldn’t, 5 -> could / can’t, 6 -> Could, 7 -> can / can’t, 8 -> can’t, 9 couldn’t, 10 ->could

Exercise 8.

1, 2, 5 -> will be able + to,

3, 4 -> won’t be able + to,

Exercise 9.

1b, 2b, 3e, 4d, 5d, 6d, 7b, 8e, 9c, 10a или 10с, 11d или 11с, 12e, 13d, 14e

Exercise 10.

1 can, 2  be able to, 3 can / can’t, 4 be able to, 5 be able to, 6 was able to, 7 could, 8 could, 9 is able, 10 can’t

Exercise 11.

1 –> can’t,

2 –> could,

3 –> could

4 –> couldn’t

5 –> can

6 –> was able to

7 –> could

Exercise 12.

1b, 2b, 3b, 4b

Exercise 13.

Could have got / could be / could have been или could be / could have cancelled / could have crached

Exercise 14.

1. Sally can’t или couldn’t + have been at home.
   2. He can visit his ex-wife when he comes to Sochi.
   3. Can / could Nicholas have said this?
   4. Can / could Katerina have refused to go with you?
   5. Basil could come  tomorrow.
   6. Sally could not have read the novel so fast.
   7. Greg can’t have had a car accident.

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