Wider World 4 Unit 8. Grammar. Ability

Choose the correct options

Gemma 1)          [was able, could, managed]paint really well when she was only four years old. In fact she was so good that her parents 2)         [could, able to, managed] to get one of her paintings into a famous art exhibition. Her talents surprised her parents because they 3)                  [didn’t manage to, couldn’t, weren’t able]to paint at all. They 4)               [couldn’t, weren’t able, didn’t manage] understand why Gemma was so talented. When she was ten, she started selling portraits of people and animals online and 5)          [can, was able, could]to make quite a lot of money. However, although she was successful as an artist, she never 6)             [managed, was able to, could]to do her homework and she had to stay down in her class a year. Now she has extra lessons and thinks she will 7)            [be able to, manage, can] improve her schoolwork enough so that she can join her old class again.

Complete the dialogue with the correct form of can, could, be able or manage

A: Hi, Sarah, did you 1        to get to sleep after that party last night?

B: No, I 2          sleep at all. I was too excited. But I hope I’ll 3         to sleep tonight though, because I’ve got an interview for college tomorrow.

A: I’m sure you 4             ______ be ____________ to do the interview, even if you are tired.

B: Not if I 5       keep my eyes open during the interview.

A: What 6       I do to help me sleep? Got any ideas?

B: I suggest you have a hot bath and then put on some relaxing music before you go to bed. That’s what I did the last time I 7          sleep and I 8.          to fall asleep almost immediately after that. I promise you 9            _________ be ____________ to stay awake, even if you try.

A: Well. if I 10       sleep I’ll phone you for some more ideas!

David ... ride a bike until he was ten.