1. Choose the suitable modal verb in the following sentences:
1. You … (don’t have to/must not) go to school if you have a high temperature.
2. The exam is next week. So you … (must/can) study hard.
3. I will cook everything for the party, so you … (don’t have to/mustn’t) bring any food.
4. He needs more exercise, he … (should/can) go to a gym.
5. Women … (are allowed to/have to) cover their heads in a church.
6. I … (can’t/can) speak Italian very well because I didn’t learn it at school.
7. We … (could/couldn’t) sleep last night because of the storm.
8. Sam … (must/had to) leave the party early because his wife disappeared.
9. If you train more you … (could/will be able to) run faster.
10. I was … (ought to/able to) buy a dishwasher with my credit card.
11. You … (ought/can) to apologize.
12. We … (needn’t/mustn’t) book a room in advance. They always have some vacant rooms.
13. Your hair looks awful. You … (can/should) get it cut.
14. I am exhausted. I … (am able to/need to) get some rest.
15. When they were rich they were … (able to/allowed to) travel abroad every month.
16. Visitors of our hotel … (may/can) use the car park.
17. Dogs … (aren’t allowed to/aren’t able to) get inside.
18. I’m not sure but Bob … (could/must) be in England now.
19. … (Must/May) I use your mobile phone?
20. Tom doesn’t answer the phone. His car … (should/must) be in a tunnel now.
2. He was a very talented boy, he learned to read at an early age but his life was hard.
3. He had to go to work at ten.
4. Charles had worked as a newspaper reporter before he became famous.
5. He was writing for a variety of magazines when he worked as a reporter.
6. The humorous novel The Pickwick Papers made Dickens famous.
7. This novel was published in 1837.
8. Dickens wrote about the life of poor English people.
9. His novels were set in Victorian England.
10. People all over the world value his novels for their realism, humour, their love and sympathy for ordinary people.