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Modal Verbs Navai State University

The document outlines a lesson plan for teaching modal verbs 'can' and 'could', including objectives, usage rules, and examples. It provides warm-up questions, grammar discussions, and tasks for students to practice these modal verbs in various contexts. Additionally, it includes homework assignments to reinforce learning through requests.

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Lesson

Teaching modal verbs: can, could

Lesson objectives:
• 📕to teach using of modal verbs
• 📕to introduce the rules of modal verbs with
examples
• 📕to get experience of making and analysing
sentence in the text
• 📕to learn new technique for teaching modal
verbs

Warmp up:

1. How quickly you use modal verbs in your

sentences?
2. Do you know what difference what differ-
ence has between can and could?

Can:
- We use can to make general statementsabout
what is possible:
It can be very cold here in winter. (= It is sometimes
very cold here in winter.)
You can easily get lost in this town. (= People often
get lost in this town.)

- Can is used to indicate ability:

I can swim.
My father can speak six languages.

- Can is used to indicate possibility/ probability:

Smoking can harm your brain.
It can rain.

- Can is used for asking or giving permission:

Can I come in?
You can use my laptop if you want.

-Can is used for giving offers:

Can I do that for you?
Can I help you?

- Can is used for making suggestions:

We can go for a walk this morning.
You can start learning French before your trip to Paris.

- Can is used to talk about scientific facts:

Tigers can run as fast as lions.
Mammals can live up to 90 years.

- Can is used to show the potential in someone or

something:
That can be the most difficult part.

- The negative form of can is cannot and it is used to

show the speaker's deduction based on available in-
formation. For example:
It cannot be true.
This cannot be her book because

Could:
- TO MAKE POLITE REQUESTS:
Could you bring me the menu, please?
Could you tell me where the post office is?

-TO EXPRESS PAST ABILITY:

I could sing better when I was younger.
He couldn't dance like that when he a child.

-TO EXPRESS PAST ABILITY:

David could have been a famous rock star.
Peter couldn't have made the donation because he
has no money.

-TO SUBSTITUTE FOR CAN IN THE CONDITIONAL:

If I had more time, I could have had more lessons.
If we had more money, we could have travelled the
world.
- PERMISSION (polite):
Could I take your book, please?
Could i take Friday off?

-SUGGESTION:
I could help you with English.
We could take a taxi

-POSSIBILITY:
A lot of crime could be prevented
You could have called first

Grammar discus-
sion:can, could
Student 'A'
• Discuss the questions below with your partner.
1. What languages can you speak?
2.What can't you do that most people can do?
3.What songs can you sing?
4.Where in your town or city can you eat great restau-
rant food?
5.What can you do to improve your English?
6.Which student(s) in your class can tell funny jokes?

Student ‘B’
• Discuss the questions below with your part-
ner.
1. Could you speak any English five years
ago?
2. Could you read and write before you
started school?
3. Could you tie your own shoelaces when
you were a child?
4. Could your great-grandparents speak
any foreign languages?
5. Could you read and write before you
started school?
6. Could your great-grandparents speak
any foreign languages?

Task 3🍃
Complete the sentence below

1. I know how to speak English and German. I

speak … two languages
A) can’t
B) can
C) could

2. Can he swim?
Yes, he …
A) can
B) could
C) can’t
3. They couldn’t speak English very well be-
fore, but now …
A) they could
B) Tey can
B) they couldn’t

4. Excuse me … find tge manager of the ship-

ping department?
A) Where can
B) Where i can
C) Where can i

5. … remember everything our English teacher

said yesterday?
A) could
B) can you
C) are you

6. He is late again! Why … he arrive on time?

A) could
B) Can
C) Can’t

7. I’m very sorry, but i don’t think I … you.

A) can help
B) Couldn’t help
C) Can’t help

8. I was late for class last Thursday because …

start my car.
A) i couldn’t
B) I can’t
C) I could

9. The company is looking for a person who …

A) can’t work hard
B) can work hard
C) could work hard

10. … find some information about traveling in

Europe?
A) where I could
B) where I can
C) where can I

Task 4🍁
• Fill in the blanks below to complete the sen-
tence
1.I__________go to the party last night because I was
sick.

2.A:___________Noel cook Italian food? B: Yes,

he___________

3.My sister_____________swim last year, but now

she____________.

4. They_______________go shopping yesterday be-

cause the store was closed.
5.A:________________you read when you were four
years old? B: Yes, I__________.

6. Ellie_____________ ride a bicycle. She rides it to

school every day.

7.I'm very tired, so l_____________. go out to the

park to play.

8. A:_______________you see the moon last night?

B: No,I____________

9.Whe_____________I talk to you about the company

report?

10.Most dinosaurs walked on land, but

some______________fly or even swim.

11. Excuse me,I_____________hear you right now.

The music is too loud.

12. I________________drive a truck when I was only

sixteen years old.

13. Douglas hit the tree because he______

stop his car.

14. How many hot dogs __________you eat at one

time?
15. I___________read without my reading glasses.
Where are they?

Task 5

Homework
Could you …? Requests
For example:
(A). I’m going to the supermarket
(B) could you please buy some milk?
(A) sure, no problem