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Complete the sentences below with the appropriate modal verbs (must, may, can, need, to have to, to be able to).

Be able to have to be allowed to

May can must need should

Match modal verbs and their meanings

Grammar (Modals)

- the ability to do sth.

- the past of can

- the possibility now or in the future

- we feel sure something is true

- we feel sure sth. is not possible

- it is necessary to do sth.

1. You... not come to help them tomorrow: the work is done. 2. You... not change the whole text as the beginning is all right. You... only rewrite the second part of it. 3.... you help me now? — I am afraid not: I am in a great hurry. I shall be free in the evening. Come to my place at about eight, and I... help you. 4. John... not tell us the rules of the game: we know them. 5.... I return the book to you on Friday? I am afraid I... not finish it before. — No, that is too late. You... bring it to me not later than Wednesday. 6. It is already six o'clock. We... hurry if we don't want to be late. 7.... you translate this text into English? — I think I... 8. They spent all the morning on the river bank. Only Ann... return home as she... not stay in the sun for such a long time.

3. Translate into English (can, may, needn't).

1. Можете сегодня туда пойти.

2. Можете се­годня туда не ходить.

3. Можете не переписы­вать сочинение.

4. Можете остаться: ведь у вас есть время.

5. Можете остаться, если хотите.

6. Можете не оставаться, если не хотите.

7. Можете не говорить ему об этом.

8. Можете сказать ему об этом.

9. Нам можно не повторять эти пра­вила: мы их знаем.

10. Можно было и не писать сочинение.

11. Он мог и не приходить: все было уже сделано.

12. Вы можете взять эту книгу, если хотите.

13. Вы можете взять эту книгу: она нетяжелая.

14. Вы можете и не брать эту книгу.

15. Я не могу взять эту книгу.

16. Подумай только: можно было и не ходить туда.

17. Можешь сразу не соглашаться: подумай несколько дней.

The World’s Most Popular Brands.

Coca-Cola isn’t just a drink, just as a Mercedes isn’t just a car... nowadays you have to be a brand. Here are six of the world’s biggest brands and the stories behind them.

It is the world’s number one brand and it is recognised by 94% of the world’s population! For many years now, Coca-Cola has been a symbol of American culture. It is also the best-selling soft drink in the world. More than 60,000 products from the Coca-Cola company are drunk around the world every minute.

One hundred years ago, few men wore wristwatches: but the Rolex company - based in Switzerland since 1908 - changed all that. They gave us the first wristwatches to show the date, the first diving watches, the first sports watch, the first watch to show different time zones... and now Rolex watches (with prices that range from $3,000 to $20,000) are worn as a status symbol all over the world.

Although most people in consumer surveys guess that Nokia is a Japanese company, it’s actually from northern Europe! Originally a paper factory on the banks of the river Nokia in Finland, it became the world’s leading mobile phone company in the late 1990s. Their first commercial mobile, the Mobira Talkman, which appeared in 1984, weighed 5 kg. The latest models are a bit lighter, however!

Samsung (the name means ‘three stars’) began as a company in 1938. It originally produced noodles and dried fish! However, the company has come a long way since then. Mobile phones, digital cameras, flat-screen TVs, DVD players... you name it, are all manufactured by this electronics giant from South Korea.

The makers of cars driven by the rich and famous, the Mercedes company has its base in Germany. Emil Jallinek, a wealthy banker who bought and loved cars, named the car Mercedes after his nine-year-old daughter. And the famous three-point Mercedes star was designed to symbolise the growth of the business into transport on land, sea and air.

The famous face which is seen at more than 9,000 KFC restaurants worldwide actually belonged to a real person: Colonel Harland Sanders. At different times he was a soldier, an insurance agent, a tyre salesman and worked in his parents’ petrol station. When he saw that people were more interested in his home-made food than the petrol he was selling, he decided to open his first restaurant in Utah, USA, in the early 1950s. Colonel Sanders is also remembered for organising the biggest party in history - about 35,000 people attended his seventy-ninth birthday in 1970.

(From New Cutting Edge by Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor)

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