I can talk about past, present and future ability.

(Tôi có thể nói về khả năng trong quá khứ, hiện tại và tương lai.)

1. Study the sentences from the texts on page 60. Do they talk about ability in the past, present or future?

(Nghiên cứu các câu từ văn bản ở trang 60. Chúng nói về khả năng trong quá khứ, hiện tại hay tương lai?)

1. After they graduate, many students will be able to have very successful careers as singers or actors.

2. Young people can join the school from the age of fourteen.

3. They can't forget to do their homework!

4. If you study hard and have a passion for performing arts, you won't be able to resist the BRIT school.

5. People believed that girls couldn't play football as well as boys.

2. Match sentences 1-5 in exercise 1 with rules a-c.

(Nối câu 1-5 trong bài tập 1 với quy tắc a-c.)

RULES

a. We use can and can't to talk about ability in the present.

b. We use could and couldn't to talk about ability in the past.

c. We use will / won't be able to to talk about ability in the future.

3. Choose the correct options.

(Chọn các phương án đúng.)

1. “Will you be able to / Can you hear the bell in your classroom?”

“Yes, we can. It's really loud!”

2. In the future, we could / will be able to do all our exams online.

3. At my last school, we won't be able to / couldn't use tablets in class.

4. These days, many students can / could find out what their homework is from the school's website.

5. “In the past, will students be able to / could students use computers in class?”

“No, they couldn't.”

6. Turn the music down. I can't / couldn't study.

4. Complete the report with the words and phrases in the box. You can use them more than once.

(4. Hoàn thành báo cáo với các từ và cụm từ trong khung. Bạn có thể sử dụng chúng nhiều hơn một lần.)

HOMESCHOOLING

Many people think that homeschooling is much easier than going to school. They think homeschoolers (1) .................. get out of bed at any time they like and simply have a relaxing day. The truth is that homeschoolers (2) ............... do whatever they like: they have a timetable like students at ordinary schools. In the past, teachers or parents taught children at home who (3)………….. go to school. This was often because they lived too far away from the nearest school. Today, many parents choose to homeschool their children. They believe that if they teach their children at home, they (4)………… learn better this way. They also think their children (5)…………. get better exam results in the future.

5. USE IT! Work in pairs. Which of these school issues are the same now as in the past? Which will be different in the future? Use can, can't, could, couldn't or will / won't be able to.

(Làm việc theo cặp. Những vấn đề nào của trường học bây giờ giống như trong quá khứ? Cái nào sẽ khác trong tương lai? Sử dụng can, can't, could, couldn't hoặc will / won't be able to.)

1. choice of subjects

(lựa chọn môn học)

2. ways of learning

(các cách học)

3. school uniforms

(đồng phục học sinh)

4. class size

(quy mô lớp học)

5. rules

(các quy định)

The issues we think are the same now as in the past are...

(Những vấn đề mà chúng tôi nghĩ bây giờ giống như trong quá khứ là...)

In the past, students couldn't choose unusual subjects. In the future, they will be able to make more unusual choices.

(Trước đây, học sinh không thể chọn những môn học khác thường. Trong tương lai, họ sẽ có thể đưa ra nhiều lựa chọn khác thường hơn.)