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LV Int Plus U5 Grammar Basic Worksheet

The document provides a grammar lesson about using modal verbs to express advice, obligation, prohibition, speculation in the past and present. It contains multiple choice questions and exercises for students to practice using modal verbs in different contexts. The questions cover modals like "must, should, ought to, need to" for expressing obligation and advice and "might, could, can't" for talking about possible past or present situations. The exercises focus on choosing the correct modal verb based on the context and identifying whether statements using modals are referring to the past or present.

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LV Int Plus U5 Grammar Basic Worksheet

The document provides a grammar lesson about using modal verbs to express advice, obligation, prohibition, speculation in the past and present. It contains multiple choice questions and exercises for students to practice using modal verbs in different contexts. The questions cover modals like "must, should, ought to, need to" for expressing obligation and advice and "might, could, can't" for talking about possible past or present situations. The exercises focus on choosing the correct modal verb based on the context and identifying whether statements using modals are referring to the past or present.

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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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