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Can and could for permission

You can Watch
another film ... oor, room

betyou car t have
/ more chocolate.

We use can and can't to give and We use can and could to ask for permission.
refuse permission. Could is more formal than can.

can go... Can I have ...?
You
can't have... Could we go ...?

6 Complete the sentences with can or can't. 7 Write one rule with can and one rule
/ with can't for each place.

at the cinema at the library at school
on a plane at the zoo at the museum

You canttalk atthe cinema.
W XS W V* | I f W* II X W* I I/IV-
ÿ You can't use your phone here.

8 Work in groups. Choose one of the
places in exercise 7.Say the rules but
don't say the place!Can the other
students guess the place?
1 You listen to music here.
You can eat sweets. You can'ttalk.

ÿ Atthe cinema?ÿ

Yes,that's rightj

2 You take photos here.

3 You play ballgames here.

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