1)             Find all the sentences with modal verbs and explain the meaning.

1. Other celebrations were held when hunters could catch animals. (ability)

2. They lit fires and made music because they thought these festivals would bring a year of plenty. (possibility)

3.…or satisfy and please the ancestors, who could return either to help or to do harm.(possibility)

4. In Japan the festival is called Obon, when people should go to clean the graves and light incense in memory of their ancestors.(the past habit)

5. On this important feast day, people might eat food in the shape of skulls, and cakes with “bones” on them. (possibility)

6. It is now a children’s festival, when they can go to their neighbours’ homes and ask for     sweets. (possibility)

7. If they are not given anything, the children might play a trick. (possibility)

8. Some people might win awards for their animals, flowers, fruit and vegetables,… (possibility)

9. At the Spring Festival in China, people…and may give children lucky money in red paper.(possibility)