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The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5.1 - Shopping for the textbook Navigate Elementary A2 - Workbook with authors Carol Tabor from Oxford University Press

Question

Complete the sentences with the correct form of can/could and the verb in (brackets).

Answer

  1. People couldn't pay for things with credit cards before 1958, but the could pay with cash. Today you can buy things with cash or credit cards in most shops, but you can't use cash to pay for things online.
  2. Now you can get money from cash machines around the word or you can go into a bank. Before 1967, you could get money from your bank but you couldn't take money from a cash machine.
  3. Before 1994, you could get a computer and use the internet, but you couldn't shop online. Today there are some things that you can't do online - have a haircut, for example - but you can find most things that you need.
  4. You could have a color TV in 1953, but you couldn't watch a TV programme in color. The first color TV programme was in 1954! Today we can enjoy thousands of colors TV programmes from around the world. Most of today's young people can't remember black and white TV.
  5. Before 1994 people could eat a meal in an English restaurant on Sundays, but they couldn't buy food from an English supermarket. Todays most supermarkets in the United Kingdom open seven days a week and they offer online shopping. When you can't go to the supermarket, you can visit their online store.