Past and present abilities
B1 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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By the end of the lesson, students will have learnt and practices using modal verbs can, could, be able to and manage to in the context of their past and present abilities.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide gist listening about past and present abilities in the context of Olympic Games
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To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation in the context of past and present abilities
Procedure (36-41 minutes)
T presents questions on the slide: What were you good at when you were a child/student? Are you still good at it? T provides an example of her own before giving the word to students. T nominates if students stay silent.
T tells students a more detailed story about her past abilities. T conveys the story with pictures and asks a gist question: Was I lucky? Ss listen and answer the question.
T presents the text of the story with highlighted target grammar about past and present abilities. T tells students that they are going to talk today about present and past abilities.
T sets a task to answer the questions individually. T sends a link to google doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WrsMjJy1sRSYj1Ke_BiSQJkEthkxG3C21Q1zyHVMKLQ/edit?usp=sharing. T then puts students in pairs to discuss the answers.
T then presents the answers on the slide and asks students if they have any questions. If needed, T clarifies some questions for the students.
T presents the target language on the slide and asks students to identify the stress. T models and drill pronunciation chorally and individually.
T shows the task on the slide and asks students to complete the task with target grammar. T does a demo for the first sentence. Students work in pairs.
T shows a slide with the answers. T asks if students have some questions.
T shows students pictures of different activities and asks them to discuss in pairs if they can/could or were able to do these activities.
T asks about students' answers and presents some good and bad language on the board. students should correct bad examples.