LANGDALE HOLDS can for ability and questions
You can go to the swimming pool
bican play the piano, Listen!
< Arrghi Tom can't sing!
d We can't go into town
e Can they speak Spanish?
1 Which two sentences are about
permission
2 Which three sentences are about ability
3. What is the negative form of can?
4 Do we use do and does to make questions
with can?
I can talk about things we can and can't do.
1 Look at the sentences and answer the
1. I played tennis yesterday but I have not won. 2. We were waiting a long time for the bus but it has not come. 3. She has seen me but she hasn't spoken to me. 4. Did it rain yesterday? -No, it wa a nice day. 5. That's a nice bag. Where have you bought it? 6. That was а good thing to do. Why did you not do it? 7. I did not see him in the laboratoгу yesterday. 8. He arrived at 6 р. m. yesterday. 9. They were friends two years ago. 10. We had 30 lectures last week. 11. Hе liked the film he watched last Monday. 12. I lost my key yeasterday. 13. It was cold, so I took on my coat. 14. I wasn't very tired, so I didn't go to bed early. 15. It was a funny situation but nobody laughed. 16. The hotel wasn't very expensive. It didn't cost very much. 17. She wasn't hungry, so she ate nothing. 18. What did you do at the weekend?