Make Your Way 5, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

Work in groups How will we get around in the future, without making the pollution worse? How can we make travelling more environmentally friendly? In groups decide 5 rules which will reduce pollution. Example: Cars must carry at least three people. Grammar station: can / be able to / could Write sentences describing 5 things you can do now that you couldn’t/weren’t • able to do when you started at this school. Write a paragraph starting “When I am 25, I will be able to...” • 19 20 Ibbotson, Eva: Journey to the River Sea (Macmillan 2001) Park, Linda Sue: A Single Shard (Clarion Books 2001) Poole, Peggy (ed.): Marigolds grow wild on platforms. An anthology of railway poetry (Cassell 1996) The Perfect Journey: The Guardian/Piccadilly Writing Competition for Teenagers (Piccadilly Press 2000) Reading tips 21 Present: The new cars can travel for over 250 km without refuelling. ABILITY Future: Electric cars will be able to manage without heavy batteries. Past: The old electric cars could only / were only able to travel for short distances. Driving when you are tired can be dangerous. POSSIBILITY We could use solar energy to heat the water in summer. Could / Can we ask you something? PERMISSION Could / Can I use your telephone? Of course you can. I can / could clean your car for you. OFFERS&REQUESTS Can / Could you explain how the fuel cell works? When my car broke down, I was able to call a garage from a phone box. The garage repaired my car and so I was able to drive home. If we want to say that someone managed to do something in one particu- lar situation, we have to use was/were able to (NOT could ). 101 5 Extensive unit 5: Travel and more Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv