Unit 2
Working with grammar 2
1 Complete these sentences with can, can't, could
or couldn't and a verb from the list.
speak read play take run see
1d until T was
nine years old,
21 very well without
my glasses.
Si _ very far now, but
when I was young and fit I
for miles.
4 My written English isn't very good but I
quite fluently.
5 My sister the piano,
she has lessons every week.
6 We the boat out
now, the weather is very bad
2 Write three things you could do and three
things you couldn’t do when you were a small
child.
Example
I couldn't wall until I was two.
4
3
Write three things you can do well.
Example
Ican dance well,
4
Complete these sentences with could or
was/were able to.
1
5
We catch the train
because it was late, too.
When I was at school, I
do difficult maths
problems,
He cut his hand badly but he
drive to the
doctor's
‘When I was a child, 1
walk on my
hands,
They finish the
match after lunch because it stopped raining,
Which sentences in Exercise 4 can you
rewrite using managed to?