Que Paso?

Can you do it?

Time: 12-15 min.
Level: Lower intermediate
Materials: worksheet, white board, markers
Objective: to find out about people’s abilities by asking and answering questions using can,could, or be able to.

Procedure:

1. Students work individual

2. Teacher gives to each student a card

3. Teacher gives instructions “you are responsible to find out theinformation on your cards by speaking to everybody in the class. You have to put a check next to a sentence each time somebody answers yes, I can or yes I could”.

4. Students start asking to everybodyin the class

5. Students finish asking and sit down again

6. Teacher asks students to talk about the information they have found out.

Topic: talking about ability and possibility |Stage&timing | Procedure (activity) | Objective | Interaction | Materials and sources | Reflection |
Warm up4-5 min | 1. T greets students 2. T asks students some questions about theirweekend, what they did, what they would had liked to do 3. Teacher writes on the white board what students answer using different modals 4. Whole class check the sentences | To make students concentratein the target language | Lock step | White boardmarkers | |
Pre10-12 min | 1. Teacher tells Students the objectives of the class. 2. Teacher writes on the board some compound adjectives. 3.Teacher asks Students about the compound adjective, they have to describe them using the can, could or able to. Individual Students respond. (See white board chart 1). 4. Individual they discusswith the teacher about the sentences the wrote 5. Volunteers read aloud their sentences. | To make students aware of what they will be able to do by the end of the classTo focus Students attention on“can, could, and able to” and how we use them and also on the compound adj.To make students recall how to use “can, could and be able to” that they already learned semesters ago. | Lock stepS-SS-WC...