B1j - can could

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• Agenda, announcements, attendance
  
• Homework check & feedback
  
• Grammar: can & could
  
• Grammar review: past simple

Homework check & feedback

Grammar: can

Talk about ability, time or will to do something.

I can play the guitar.                   I cannot play the guitar.

I can go to the store later.         I can’t go to the store.

I can help you.                             I cannot help you.

Can + [dictionary form]

Dogs
...
fly

1. can
2. can't

(-)
My brother ... come tonight.

1. can
2. doesn't can
3. can't
4. comen't

A giraffe ... swim

1. can not
2. cannot
3. ca'nt

Grammar: could

Four situations:

1. Past tense of 'can'

My brother couldn’t/could not write when he was three years old.

2. Polite questions
Could you repeat the homework, please?

3. To suggest something

Could we go to the zoo as a reward?
We could have classes on the weekends. 

4. Something is possible, but not certain
They could still be asleep.

Could + [dictionary form]

Can or could?
We............phone Tony. Maybe he can help us out.

1. can
2. could
3. can't
4. couldn't

Can or Could?
"... you repeat that, please?"

1. Can
2. Could

I ________ sing very beautifully.

1. can
2. could

Sam ...... play the guitar very well. I hope he ..... teach me.

1. can/could
2. could/can't
3. can/can
4. can't/can

... your brother skateboard when he was six?

1. Could
2. can

In 1850 people ___ watch television.

1. can
2. can't
3. could
4. couldn't

Practice

Online Learning environment: 

1 VWO > unit 4 > lesson 4 > 

do Grammar (33, 34, 35) + Phrases (36)