Unit 6 Modals

Multiple Choice

You have to use a lithium battery or the device won’t work.

• refusal

• necessity and obligation

• impossibility

Multiple Choice

We don’t have to take the bottles to a recycling bin; they are collected with our other rubbish.

• lack of necessity or obligation

• habit

• certainty

Multiple Choice

All schools should recycle their waste paper.

• expectation

• prohibition

• advise and suggestions

Multiple Choice

With more money, charities can save more elephants.

• ability

• inability

• permission and requests

Multiple Choice

This article says there are over 1,000,000 tigers in the wild, but that can’t be right - they’re an endangered species.

• habit

• inability

• impossibility

Multiple Choice

The principal has agreed; he says we may have an environment day at school!

• permission and requests

• lack of necessity or obligation

• certainty

Multiple Choice

The woman in the chemistry lab must be the new science teacher.

• refusal

• possibility

• certainty

Multiple Choice

I don’t know how I’m going to train this guide dog; he just won’t obey orders.

• refusal

• prohibition

• expectation

Multiple Choice

The firefighters won’t be able to put out the forest fire without water planes.

• lack of necessity and obligation

• expectation

• inability

Multiple Choice

He might need some help, but let’s check with him first.

• lack of necessity and obligation

• possibility

• certainty in the future

Multiple Choice

Companies mustn’t dump their chemical waste in rivers; it’s dangerous and illegal.

• prohibition

• habit

• certainty in the future

Multiple Choice

Miranda will often go walking in the countryside for hours at a time.

• certainty

• habit

• inability

Multiple Choice

You’re bound to see Milly if you go to the demonstration later.

• certainty in the future

• possibility

• impossibility

Multiple Choice

Martin finished work hours ago, so he ought to be home by now.

• prohibition

• expectation

• habit