💪 Grammar A1-14: can / can’t
A full A1 material on can and can’t for learners of about seven to ten, built around the three jobs the word really does: ability (Elif can play the guitar), permission (Can I open the window, please?) and polite requests (Can you help me, please?). Each job is taught on its own, then all three are mixed. Two form rules are hammered from the first screen and tested in every practice set: can never changes — there is no “he cans” — and the verb after can is bare, so “I can to swim” is wrong. The pattern section gives every person with yes, no and the long form cannot, the question flip with Can at the front, and both short answers. A tap-to-explain classroom dialogue shows the three jobs inside one real conversation. Practice runs across four multiple-choice sets (thirty items in all, every single one explained in child-sized words), a ten-item sorter that trains the one question that settles Can I versus Can you — who is going to do it? — eight tap-and-repeat cards and six real learner errors to repair. Teacher notes give a 45-minute sequence, the one-box board move, an objects-in-hand fix for the stuck learner and the follow-up topics.
Lesson Plan
- The sentence shape as a picture: person + can + the verb
- Four tap-to-hear models, one for each job of can
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- person + can + verb — I can swim, she can swim, they can swim
- can never changes and never takes an s: never “he cans”
- The verb after can is bare: I can swim, never “I can to swim”
- Negative: can’t (the long way is cannot) — I can’t reach it
- Question: Can goes first — Can you swim? Yes, I can. / No, I can’t.
- Can I…? asks to be allowed · Can you…? asks somebody else to do it
Prerequisites
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