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December 08, 2020 Preadv Page 1 Tamara Goushchina Class Activities
December 08, 2020 Preadv Page 1 Tamara Goushchina Class Activities
Class activities
1. Warming-up: Your school days are the best days of your life.
Arguments for/against
2. Grammar. Modal verbs
1) Ability. Task I (from the previous class)
2) Permission. Notes, Tasks II. III. IV
3. Grammar. Comparing. NavigateC1, WB, Ex 1, 2a, b and 3, p4-5.
Recording 1.1
1. The job interview was a disaster; I could only answer half the questions.
2. Yesterday I could leave work earlier – I got permission from my boss.
3. These days she is rather slow but as a child she could run like the wind.
4. When I finish the course next year I can speak perfect Italian.
5. It’s really annoying. Surely you knew they didn’t accept traveller’s
cheques at that hotel. You could warn me before I left.
6. We took an exam yesterday and I couldn’t answer any of the questions.
7. We can have gone up the Eiffel Tower while we were in Paris, but we
decided to go to the Louvre instead.
8. I can give you a hand tomorrow morning, if you want.
9. Thankfully, we could get to the airport just in time so we didn’t miss
the plane.
10. Kate couldn’t go to the barbecue as she had to work.
11. I’m afraid we can’t come to the wedding after all.
12. I’m afraid we won’t be able to come to the wedding after all.
13. I wish I can speak Russian, then I could read Tolstoy in the original.
December 08, 2020 PreAdv Page 2 Tamara Goushchina
Function Permission