Complete the sentences with can or be able to
- She has almost everything that money [can|be able to] buy, but she doesn't have any subscribers.
- I [can|be able to] play the music from the popular video challenge.
- How [can|be able to] you complete this challenge?
Read the text and complete it with the correct forms of the verbs
Internet safety
As an instructor at one of the top universities in the Asia-Pacific region, I have some really smart students. One of my smartest students ever is in my current essay writing class. Her name is Esther. Last week, the deadline for submission of final assignments for my essay was Friday, and I [ ] surprised and disappointed when, at five p.m., the only student who [ ] her assignment was Esther. I tried [ ] her, but she was out.
Next morning, I did what most internet addicts do on first getting up — I checked my e-mail. There was Esther's assignment, sent as an e-mail attachment. Received at 11:59 p.m. She has a great sense of timing, Esther. Resisting the temptation to mark her down for the anxiety she [ ] , I gave her a well-deserved "A". I returned her assignment electronically, and an hour or so later [ ] a message from her thanking me for the comments and the grade.
A student in the same section also submitted his assignment as an e-mail attachment. This student is considerably weaker than Esther. I was therefore astonished when I [ ] the e-mail attachment and found an essay far more elegantly crafted than anything Luke [ ] for me before. It was clear that someone else [ ] the piece. However, when I confronted Luke he was confident — of course, it was his own work! He even managed [ ] hurt.
I showed the essay to a colleague who immediately [ ] it as a piece from the World Wide Web. These two stories illustrate two of the ways that the internet is transforming my teaching.