Name: & & & & & & & & & & & & & & .. Date: & & /& & /& &
Class: & & & & & . Number: & & & ..
Mark: & & & & & & Teacher: & & & & & & & ..
Offers, invitations, requests, permission
Offers Requests Permission
Offering food and drink Asking for something Asking for permission
Can Can
Would you like?
Could I/ we have? Could I?
May May
might Might
Offering to do Asking people to do Giving and refusing
something for others something permission
I/we can Can
Can I /we? Could
Can (not)
Would you?
Shall I/we?
you May (not)
Will
Invitations
Uses
Would you like?
Will you?
We can use can, could, may or might
depending on the situation.
·ð Can is the most informal.
·ð Could is more polite then can.
·ð May is more formal than can and
could
·ð Might is the most polite but the least
common.
A) Complete the sentences with: May, could, would, can and shall.
a) ________ I have some fruit, please?
b) ________ I go to frank s party?
c) ________ you like to come to my party?
d) ________ some orange juice?
e) ________ you wait a moment, please?
f) ________ I bring something?
B) Complete the text. Use Modal verbs.
At a party
Frank  Hello. It s Frank. Is that you Tom?
Tom  yes, it's me.
Frank  How are you? ________ you like to come to my birthday party? It's
on Sunday at five in the afternoon.
Tom  I m sorry, but I have other plans. My mother asked me to go with her
to the bowling alley on Sunday.
Frank  Come on, Tom. You _______ miss the party. It will be great. There
will be an enormous cake, blowers, streamers, masks, good music and pretty
girls. Why don't you ask your mother?
Tom  Good idea. _______wait a moment, please?
(Tom speaks to his mother)
Tom  Mum, Frank is on the phone. His birthday is on Sunday and he's invited
me to his party. I know you asked me to go to the bowling alley with you, but
we ______ go next Sunday. _____ I go to Frank s party?
Tom s mother  Yes, of course.
Tom  Frank, she agreed. ____ I do something to help you with the
party?____ I bring something? I don't know, maybe sweets or ice-cream.
Frank  Yes, please. I m sure we ll have a great time. So, see you on Sunday.
Tom  Thank you for your invitation. See you then