Exercise 1- Write the modal verb can or could.

01.-Penguins _________ swim very well.

02.-I _____________ ran very fast when I was younger.

03.- It's snowing, so we ___________ go out now.

04.- Yesterday we___________ play.

05.- ___________ you play the piano when you were seven?

06.- You have a nice tricycle. ___________ you ride it?

07.- He has a broken leg, so he ____________ walk for a few days.

08.-I ___________ sleep last night.

09.- We came as fast as we______________.

10.- Why are you crying? Is there something I ____________ do for you?

Excerice 2 . Say what you can do or can’t do.

Choose can or can’t according to you.

a. I ______ speak Chinese.

b. I __________ sing very well.
c. I _________ run 20 kilometres.
d. I ________ ride a bicycle.
e. I _______ play basket.
 f. I ______swim.
g. I ________understand my teacher of English.
h. I ________ do Tik toks.
i- I _________ cook very well
j – I ________take aa virtual class.

Exercise 3 : Read and choose true or false.

When I was a baby I couldn’t speak, but now I can speak my language and
English! When I was smaller I could sleep all day, but now I can’t: I have to
go to school! Now I can watch television and understand what it’s saying, but
when I was younger that was impossible – I couldn’t understand very much!

a. When he was a baby he couldn’t speak. True False

b. Now he can speak 5 languages. True False

c. Now he can sleep all day. True False

d. When he was younger he couldn’t understand very much on TV. True False

e. Now he can’t understand what the television is saying. True False

Exercise 4 : Write these words in the correct group so that it is true for you.

play football read play chess swim speak English run quickly

When I was five I could… When I was five I couldn’t…

 Exercise 5. Find the activities and write them in the correct boxes.

I know lots of sports. I can swim and I can play football. I can play basketball too
because we are learning at school! But I can’t play baseball. We don’t have
baseball lessons at my school. What else can I do? Well, I can’t speak German or
French but I can speak English of course!

Things I can do. Things I can´t do.

Swim

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