Ex. 1 Fill in the blanks with the modal verbs can, may, must, have to. A DUMB WIFE

VERB TENSES

1. I study at the Institute.
2. Did you go to the seaside last summer?
3. My brother likes to read detective stories.
4. I will graduate from the Institute in three years.
5. This time next week I will be swimming in the ocean.
6. He takes the train to work every morning.
7. What are you talking about?
8. It has been raining since morning.
9. I entered the Institute last year.
10. Have you ever been to London?
11. Petersburg was the capital of Russia.
12. They were having lunchwhen I came.
13. I will come home, have supper, watch TV, and go to bed at 12 o’clock.
14. Do you often go to the movies?
15. Will you help me with my homework tomorrow?
16. She is giving the baby a bath.
17. I had been writing the test for half an hour when my friend came.
18. He has not eaten borsch since he left Russia.
19. We went to the forest every day last summer.
20. Yesterday from 3 till 5 p.m. I was playing chess with a friend of mine.
21. Ann doesn’t go out of town very often.
22. They were having dinner at seven o’clock yesterday.
23. Here you are at last! I have been looking for you!
24. You are constantly interrupting me!
25. He works in a bank.
26. By the end of next month she will have been working for the company.
27. Were you cleaning the flat all day yesterday?
28. I didn’t go to the party a week ago.
29. I will be cooking dinner while he is going shopping.
30. The sun rises in the East.
31. We took our textbooks, opened them, and began to read.
32. He will come back in an hour.

Раскройте скобки, употребляя глаголы в требующемся времени.

1. When morning came, the storm already (to stop), but the snow still (to fall). 2. Yesterday by eight o'clock he (to finish) all his homework, and when I (to come) to his place at nine, he (to read). 3. I (to wait) for permission to go abroad for three weeks already, but I (not to receive) the visa yet. 4. Everybody (to be) at the door of the museum, but my friend (not yet to come). 5. We (to drink) tea when the telephone (to ring). 6. Johnny noticed that everybody (to look) at him, and he (to feel) shy. 7. Light (to travel) more quickly than sound. 8. When I (to come) to Pete's house last Sunday, he (to read) a new book. He (to say) he (to give) it to me soon. Today I (to take) it from him. Now I (to read) it. I (to finish) it by Friday. If you like, I (to give) it to you on Saturday when you (to come) to see me. 9. When will he come? We (to wait) for him for half an hour already.10. On leaving the hall, the students (to thank) the professor who (to deliver) the lecture. 11. We already (to cover) about ten miles when Peter, who (to look) out of the window for the last five or ten minutes, suddenly exclaimed, "Here is the station!”

Ex. 1 Fill in the blanks with the modal verbs can, may, must, have to. A DUMB WIFE

Once there was a man whose wife was dumb and this made him very sad because he loved her very much. After some time he went to see a doctor and said, "_____ (1) you make my wife speak?" – “Perhaps I _____ (2)”, said the doctor. – "The operation is difficult but I _____ (3) try and I'll do my best to help you". – "Of course, you _____ (4) try", said the husband. – "_____ (5) you bring her tomorrow?” – asked the doctor. — "Of course, I _____ (6)".

The next day the doctor made the operation and the dumb wife _____ (7) speak now. She spoke so much and so loudly that in a few hours her husband ran back to the doctor and cried, " _____ (8)you make my wife dumb again?" – "No," said the doctor. - "You _____ (9) make a dumb woman speak but you _____ (10) make a woman stop talking." – "What _____ (11) I do?" said the man. - "I shall soon die if I _____ (12) listen to her all day long." — "Well," said the doctor, "I _____ (13) make her dumb but I _____ (14) make you deaf and you ^_______ (15) listen to her." — "Very well," said the man, "you _____ (16)do so. It will be better than the other way."

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