Name: ……………………………………..

Date: ……/……/……

Class : ………… Number: ……….. Evaluation: ………….

ANIMALS / MODAL VERBS

A) Match the animals with the pictures:

CAN – expresses:
- ability in the present

COULD - expresses: Squirrel cheetah bear

swan
ability in the past
Tortoise bee eagle
possibility.
dolphin

B) What can animals in exercise A do?

Write sentences using the words in the
box:

Make honey jump out of the

water
Climb trees run very fast
fly
Walk on two feet swim
Example:Hide its head in its shell
A Swan can swim.

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C) Read the definitions and guess the animal. (Choose from exercise 1)
 1. A strong bird can see very well.
2. A big, heavy animal that can eat flesh, fruit and insects.
3. A white bird similar to a duck that lives on rivers and lakes.
4. A small animal that walks very slowly.

D) Look at the information in the table and write sentences with could or
couldn’t.
Example: Dodos could walk but they couldn’t fly.

YES NO

Dodos Walk Fly

Brontosaurus Eat from the Run fast

top of trees
mammoths Live in cold Live in warm
places areas

D) Now write sentences with can or can't using the information in the table.

YES NO
Pandas Live in large areas of Live in populated areas
China
koalas Travel long distances in Travel safely on the
the florets ground.