Can as an ability Flashcards and more for ESL students

The flashcards and more are here for the topic on how to express ability (CAN) or the lack of the ability (CAN´T):   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Can-as-an-Ability-Flashcards-and-more-for-ESL-4299251

                            Watch the video of the complete resource:

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Introduce can and can’t using flashcards for no translation. I got carried away making flashcards that I came up with 120 Verb flashcards and more than 70 nouns flashcards to do lots of speaking activities.

A video of all the flashcards:

Show the students the flashcards and have them do the action.

Give each student a flashcard and at their turn, they have to say the verb, make the action and say the sentence.

Place the flashcards on the board and write a name under each one.  Have students say similar sentences.

Teacher:  Look at Zoe! She can fish.

Students: Look at Erick! He can bake.

Have several students come to the front and perform one of the actions. 

Students guess what he/she can do.

Students: Gustavo can fly a kite.

Use the flashcards to ask yes/No questions. Use as many flashcards to elicit answers. Have students ask each other questions.

Place all the flashcards on the board and have the students use their printable worksheet to write on either side of the column 8 things He/She can do and 8 things He/she can’t do. Then play BINGO!

Place several flashcards on the board and ask questions. Students raise their hand and say I can. Write their names under each flashcard.

Teacher: Who can play the trumpet?

Zoe: I can.

Then ask questions.

Teacher: Who can make their beds?

Students: Vicky, Carol, Ximena, Peter, Oriana and Ian.

Teacher: What can Erick do?

Students: Erick can play soccer.

Review numbers and introduce a new structure. Place some numbers flashcards on the board and a Can flashcard under each. Model a sentence.

Teacher: Number 40 can scuba dive.

Students: Number eight can ski.

Teacher: What can Number 20 do?

Students: Number twenty can snorkel.

Place a flashcard on the board. I chose cook. Tell students that you can make longer sentences by adding more words and create a mind map.

Teacher: I can cook Italian food.

Students can add more examples and write them down.

Then, have the students ask you questions as you prompt the same or another flashcard.

Students: Can you cook eggs?

Give a point to each student that makes you answer with a yes!

They can also play by saying a sentence and then the next student says another without repeating the word and so on.

Student 1: I can cook lunch. Student 2: I can cook fish. Student 3: I can cook Spanish food.  The sequence ends when a student cannot add a word or phrase to cook.

Use the flashcards to show students how to add the words that they know to make compete sentences. Bake was my example and used the noun flashcards. They can make more examples on their notebooks.

Teacher: He can bake a cake. He can bake bread and a pie. He can bake cookies and cupcakes.

You can contrast two different verb flashcards and have students find Noun flashcards to make more phrases or sentences.

                                                I made 78 noun flashcards.

Use the flashcards to sort verbs and nouns. Divide the board in two and write the word: noun and verb. Give them the flashcards and students have to sort them.

An easy review using the fly swatter!

This is just the first part. Check the second part:

https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2019/01/can-as-ability-for-esl-students-part-2.html

There will be more. 

                                      

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