Answer — Exercise 5
6.1 - The time of my life·Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book
Question
- Check what you know. Complete the table with the modal and semi-modal verbs underlined in sentences 1-6 below.
- Look at the phrases in bold and think about their meanings. Which category in the table are they closest to?
Answer
a)
b)
- are able to → ability / lack of ability
- be allowed to → permission
- make someone → obligation (strong); let someone do → permission
- be supposed to → obligation (weak) (often for something not fulfilled)
- manage to → ability / lack of ability (usually when something is difficult)