UNIT 5
LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT

1 |  |  | Complete the table with sentences from the radio program. Use could or couldn't.

Could for Ability in the Past
Affirmative (+) | Negative (-)
I / You / He / She / It / We / They | 1... | take around ten days. | I / You / He / She / It / We / They | 2... | travel quickly.
Yes/No Questions (?) | Short Answers
Could | I / you / he / she / it / we / they | travel by aeroplane? | Yes, / No, | I / you / he / she / it / we / they | could / couldn’t.

2 | Complete the sentences with could or couldn’t.
1 I couldn’t dance well when I was five. (-) 2 My cousins ... drive a car when they were 19. (+) 3 My teacher ... speak English in secondary school. (+) | 4 Leyla ... take the bus to school last year. (+) 5 The students ... read fast. (-) 6 We ... do our homework. It was difficult. (-)

3 | Write questions for an interview. Use can or could and the ideas in 1-6. 1 Can you go to the cinema alone now?

4 | Work in pairs. Take turns to ask and answer the questions in Exercise 3. Write your partner's answers in your notebook.

5 | Work with a different partner. Take turns to share your classmate’s answers from Exercise 4.

Sabina can go to the cinema alone. |  | Mark couldn't ride a bike five years ago.

| WORKBOOK p.26, p.28 and p.31