Cover of the textbook Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6.1 - The time of my life for the textbook Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Check what you know. Complete the table with the modal and semi-modal verbs underlined in sentences 1-6 below.
  2. Look at the phrases in bold and think about their meanings. Which category in the table are they closest to?

Answer

a)

b)

  1. are able to → ability / lack of ability
  2. be allowed to → permission
  3. make someone → obligation (strong); let someone do → permission
  4. be supposed to → obligation (weak) (often for something not fulfilled)
  5. manage to → ability / lack of ability (usually when something is difficult)