⚽ Sports I Play: Sports Vocabulary & "I can / I can't"

A fully interactive A1 Teens vocabulary lesson built around a high-energy topic teenagers enjoy: sports and ability. Students warm up with four reflection questions about the sports they like and can do, then learn the target language in three stages. First, 'can' and 'can't' for ability, presented with two formula blocks and the key rule that 'can' is followed by the base verb (no -s, no -ing, no 'to') and never changes for he/she/it. Second, a six-row table for affirmative, negative, questions, and short answers (Yes, I can / No, I can't). Third, a focused look at which verb to use with which sport — play (ball and team games), go (-ing activities), and do (other activities). Ten key words (football, basketball, tennis, swim, run, ride, team, win, ball, fast) appear in a horizontally-scrollable table with part of speech, A1-friendly definitions, and examples, and six get detailed flashcards. The reading is an original Sports Day story at Greenhill School where four students reveal their different sporting talents, ending with a surprise, with the target structure bolded and key words carrying hover-tooltip definitions. Practice includes 8 contextualised fill-in-the-blank questions with live green/red validation, hints, and a score tracker; a 'find someone who can...' speaking survey with five prompts and a model dialogue; a guided writing task about the student's own sports with a four-point checklist and live word counter saved to localStorage; and a full 8-question multiple-choice quiz with a progress bar, per-question explanations, a conic-gradient result circle, tiered motivational feedback, and localStorage persistence.