Grammar Unit 5

Modals: advice, obligation and prohibition

1 Choose the correct answer: A, B or C. Sometimes more than one answer is possible.
1 You ___ bring lunch to school tomorrow. We’ll have a pizza party in the class.
A ☐ don’t have to B☐ needn’t C ☐ don’t need
2 I ___ work harder if I want to succeed.
A ☐ ought B☐ should C ☐ must
3 If you ride a bike in the street, you ___ know the road signs.
A ☐ have to B☐ mustn’t C ☐ need
4 You ___ eat something! You haven’t eaten anything since morning.
A ☐ need to B☐ have to C ☐ should
5 Omar ___ buy a new pair of shoes. He has so many pairs of shoes that he never knows
which ones to wear.
A ☐ mustn’t B☐ needn’t C ☐ doesn’t need to
6 You ___ bring your own bag if you don’t want to take a plastic one from the supermarket.
A ☐ ought to B☐ should C ☐ need to
7 You ___ turn on the lights. It’s the middle of the day and we can see everything clearly.
A ☐ need to B☐ don’t have to C ☐ haven’t
8 Kyle ___ to save some money so that he can pay for university.
A ☐ ought B☐ should C ☐ needs

2 Match the sentence halves.

1 ☐ You must
2 ☐ We mustn’t
3 ☐ I don’t have
4 ☐ Do you need to
5 ☐ You ought to
6 ☐ Do we have
7 ☐ You shouldn’t
8 ☐ We needn’t
A to get up early on Sundays.
B to go home now?
C do some homework tonight?
D run in the corridors at school.
E go out in this bad weather.
F wear a helmet on your bike.
G buy any more oranges, we’ve got lots.
H check the price before you buy that.

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Modals: speculating in the past and present
1 Choose the correct alternative. Sometimes both answers are possible.
1 Jamie could / must be in his Spanish class but I’m not quite sure.
2 Nobody knows why they got a loan last year. They might / can’t have needed the money to
pay off their debts.
3 I can’t believe you missed the bus. You must wake / have woken up too late.
4 You can’t / mustn’t have met Joe. He joined our team in June when you weren’t there.
5 I think there might / could be a few spelling mistakes in your English essay. You need to
check it again.
6 I can’t find my wallet! Someone could steal / might have stolen it while we were on the
train or I could / must have left it at home.
7 This bus doesn’t go to the railway station. We can’t get / must have got on the wrong bus.
8 I don’t believe Liz. Her brother Mike must / can’t be on holiday in Austria because I saw him
in the café yesterday.
9 Freya can’t / must have lost her job in the factory. I heard her talking to her boss in the
morning and she seemed happy.
10 Don’t walk along these cliffs at night. It could / might be dangerous.
11 They’ve been playing basketball for three hours. They must / can be exhausted.
12 There were a few difficult questions in the history test so I might / could not pass it.

2 Read the sentences. Are they about the past or the present? Write Past or Present.
1 Our neighbours aren’t home. They must have gone on holiday. __________
2 You must be tired. You’ve been working all day. __________
3 Who’s that at the door? It might be uncle Tom. __________
4 The company might have made the payment to you yesterday – I would check your
account. __________
5 Where’s Mrs Leyton today. She could be on that school trip with the year 8s. __________
6 That can’t be Dan – he’s in Italy at the moment. __________
7 You can’t have made the online payment – it’s not on the bank statement. __________
8 Oh no! I’ve missed a call. It could have been the bank to talk about my loan. __________

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