2. Read the following text and analyse the use of modal verbs:

I don't know what I am to do. I have to be at the office at ' nine o'clock. It is half past eight now, and raining hard. I must take a taxi. But it is very difficult to find a taxi at this time of the day, isn't it? I can see one at the taxi rank (на стоянке). Can I catch it? I must run. Good, I've got it. The Bolshoi Theatre, please.

3. Answer the following questions:

1. Can you speak English well? 2. Can you speak French well? 3. Can you understand Spanish? 4. Can you count the chairs in this room? 5. Can we write without a pen or a pencil? 6. What can we do with a fountain-pen? 7. May I take your text-book? 8. May Comrade H. leave the class-room? 9. May we go to the cinema now? 10. Must we speak English now? 11. What must we have if we want to write a letter? 12. What must we have if we want to buy something? 13. What must we use if we want to wash our hands? 14. What must you do when you have quinsy? 15. What must you do to make your reading distinct?

4. Form questions to the following statements:

1. My friend can speak English (alternative). 2. You can see him today (special). 3. You must do this work (general). 4. We can answer your questions {general). 5. He can go home now (disjunctive). 6. You may come at five o'clock (special).

5. Make the following sentences interrogative and ask one of the students to answer them in the negative:

1. I must go away now. 2. You may take this pencil for a moment. 3. My nephew must go there. 4. I must answer the telephone at once. 5. He can do this work himself. 6. They may take these books. 7. My cousin can translate this article into Russian. 8. You may clean the blackboard. 9. You may change seats with Ann.

6. Use mustn't or needn't to fill the spaces in the following sentences:

1. We ... ring the bell; 1 have got a key. 2. A Zoo notice: Visitors ... feed this animal. 3. She ... write this exercise. She can do it orally. 4. He ... do the whole exercise. Ten sentences are enough. 5. You ... turn on the light; I can see quite well. 6. Pupils ... talk during the lesson. 7. I ... go shopping to-day. There is plenty of food in the house. 8. Mother to child: You ... interrupt me when I am speaking.

7. Use may or must to fill the spaces in the following sentences. Pay attention to the Russian equivalents of the modal verbs:

1. It ... rain, take your raincoat. 2. He ... be on the next train. Let's wait a little. 3. I ... see John to-morrow morning. 4. She ... be at the University. She is having her exam. 5. Our parents ... be at the theatre now as it is 8 o'clock already. 6. Go to this lecture, you ... learn something interesting. 7. I have got five lottery tickets. I ... win something. 8. He ... be at home now. Let's ring him up. 9. Don't say it to him. He ... be offended. 10. You ... be right, but 1 can't wait.

8. Fill in each blank with one of the given verbs: must, can, may:

1. Tell your daughter that if she doesn't want to fall ill she ... not drink cold water. 2. ... you help me? — I am afraid not. 3. You ... take this book, I don't need it now. 4. I am free and I ... read you aloud a little. 5. My cousin ... not translate this article. It is very difficult. 6. Hurry up! It is late. We ... come in time. 7. I ... see her in the evening. 8. My grandfather ... not finish this work to-day. He is tired. 9. My brother ... know her address. 10. Let us ask Mother. She ... know this word.