Вставьте модальные глаголы to have to или to be to.

Поставьте в вопросительной и отрицательной форме и переведите на русский язык следующие предложения.

1. I can show you an interesting picture of the city.

2. He can give you his report on the life of Jack London.

3. His brother could play the piano very well.

4. She could translate these English texts.

5. We must attend a lecture on German history on Tuesday.

6. You must return my magazines on Wednesday.

7. You must take your children to the country for the weekend.

8. I must go to see your grandmother on my day off.

9. You may discuss these questions after work.

10. They may take four magazines from that shelf.

11. She may sit on the sofa in my study.

12. He may leave Moscow on Saturday.

Ответьте на следующие вопросы, обращая внимание на употребление модальных глаголов.

1. Can you speak English?

2. Can you write English?

3. How can you speak English?

4. Can you speak English well or badly?

5. Can your daughter play the piano?

6. How can she play the piano?

7. Where can we get some English magazines?

8. What can you see on the walls of this room?

9. Must you son attend any lecture at the university?

10. What must you do to know English well?

11. When must you come to the office?

12. With whom must you work at this report?

13. May I take your pen?

16. When may your son to go to the country?

17. Till what time may we stay at our library?

18. May we sometimes finish work at three o’clock on Saturday?

19. When may children go to the cinema?

Вставьте глаголы may или can.

1. … I come in? 2. Let me look at your exercises. I … be able to help you. 3. I … not swim, because until this year the doctor did not allow me to be more than two minutes in the water. But this year he says I … stay in for fifteen minutes if I like, so I’m going to learn to swim. 4. Libraries are quite free, and any one who likes … get books there. 5. I … come and see you tomorrow if I have time. 6. Take your raincoat with you: it … rain today. 7. Do you think you … do that? 8. I … finish the work tomorrow if no one bothers me any more. 9. … we come and see you next Sunday at three o’clock in the afternoon? 10. What time is it? – It … - be about six o’clock, but I am not sure. 11. Only a person who knows the language very well … answer such a question.

Вставьте модальные глаголы may (might) или can (could).

1. … you help me? 2. I … imagine her speaking in public: I knew that she was so shy. 3. Something was wrong with the car: he … not start it. 4. A fool … ask more questions than a wise man … answer. 5. She asked me if she … use my telephone. 6. … I use your pen? 7. … I find a pen on that table? 8. You … read this book: you know the language well enough. 9. You … take this book: I don’t need it. 10. … help you? 11. … I ask you to help me? 12. The school was silent: nothing … be heard in the long dark corridors. 13. Waiting … be endless, you know. 14. … you tell me the nearest way to the city museum? 15. They … think that I am too weak to take part in the excursion, but I am strong enough to do any kind of hard work, indeed. 16. He knew this period of history very well: he had read everything on the subject he … find in our library.

Заполните пропуски модальными глаголами can, may или must.

1. What ... we see on this map? 2. ... you speak Spanish? No, unfortunately I... 3. At what time ... you come to school? 4. ... I come in? 5. You ... not smoke here. 6. ... take your book? — I am afraid not: I need it. 7. He ... not speak English yet. 8. I have very little time: I ... go. 9. They ... not go to the park today because they are busy. 10. You ... read this text: it is easy enough.

Вставьте модальные глаголы to have to или to be to.

1. She ... to send a telegram because it was too late to send a letter. 2. They decided that she ... to send them a telegram every tenth day. 3. You ... to learn all the new words for the next lesson. 4. Do you know this man? He ... to be our new teacher of history. 5. Who ... to go to the library to get the new books? I was, but I couldn't because I ... to finish some work at the phonetic laboratory. 6. It is raining. You ... to put on your raincoat. 7. "The patient ... to stay in bed for a few days," ordered the doctor. 8. The child had stomach trouble and ... to take castor oil. 9. I told her she ... to open the window for a while every day. 10. The agreement was that if Johnny White could not repay the money he had borrowed, then Luke Flint ... to have the right to sell the land. 11. If I don't ring up before six o'clock, then you ... to go to the concert hall alone and wait for me at the entrance. Is that clear? 12. The planters ... to gather their cotton at once, as they had been warned that heavy rains were expected. 13. I ... to wear glasses as my eyesight is very weak. 14. Johnny White ... to borrow from Luke Flint at a high interest, for there was no one else in the district who lent money. 15. "Cheating is a very nasty thing,"' said the teacher, "and we ... to get rid of it."