Modals

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers.
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1. Einstein speak English when he went to live in the USA?

2. Mary swim when she was three.

3. you help me with the washing up, please?

4. She swim really well when she was just eighteen months old.

5. When I was at school we do homework every night.

6. You be joking. No one buys two Rolls Royces.

7. You feel relaxed after your holiday.

8. They be tired. They’ve been travelling all night.

9. She be Scottish with a surname like McKenzie.

10. A driver to take the test in English.

11. Jack has several books about birds and a pair of powerful binoculars. He be a serious bird watcher.

12. If I don’t study for the next test, I fail it.

13. It be Jack. He drives a Fiat and this guy is driving a Jaguar.

14. I think we will have to accept the notion that we have total freedom in everything.

15. He to go to the dentist because he has toothache.

16. Our English lessons at school were very boring. We long exercises and learn a lot of grammar rules by heart.

17. It was a very difficult text. I look up a lot of words in the dictionary.

18. If we study, we could go out.

19. I ride your bicycle, please. Jane?

20. I use your telephone, please, Mr. Taylor?

21. You come if you don’t want to.

22. If we go to town, do some shopping.

23. In Britain you drive a car when you’re seventeen.

24. We’ve got two hours left. We leave yet.

25. I’m not working tomorrow, so I get up early.

26. Susan left before the end of the film. She go home early.

27. You’ve been working all day. You be tired.

28. –My school is near the railway station.
-Oh, it be noisy.

29. -What shall we do tonight?
- It’s a nice day. We go for a walk.