This section is for worksheets using can and could; there are now 207 can/could worksheets included in this section. Lets take a look at a couple of the available worksheets. This worksheet is pretty basic and just gives students practice answering basic Can you ~? questions so it might be a good warm up or first practice activity. The second worksheet is a group activity that combines can and animal vocabulary into a fun guessing game that would be great as a review once students feel comfortable using the different target structures on their own. If those are not quite what you are searching for, look through the rest of this page to find something that your students will enjoy. For more modal verb worksheets choose the main modal verb section; there is a lot of variety there and has great modal review worksheets too. Besides worksheets, there are links to teaching articles on this page and while they are not directly related to modal verbs, the tips can be applied to lessons about any topic.
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This slideshow is a great conversation piece for students to practice using modal verbs in the past tense. After they have been instructed on the grammar and structure of past modals, use this sl ...
It is a worksheet with the set of exercises ready to use for elementary students. It includes numbers, colours, articles and the use of "can". It is a perfect idea for a revision lesson or a warm ...
It's a very short board game to practice questions with 'can'. One student throws the dice and gets to ask a question to a different classmate of their choice based on the image they got. It's an ...
In this worksheet you practise present simple, the verb 'can', and read about animals' habitats, food they eat, body characteristics and customs. This is also about environment/nature. This is a r ...
The topic of this worksheet is talents. Students learn vocabulary for typical leisure time activities. They learn how to use can and can't, the definite article "the" and the "zero" article. The w ...
The topic of this worksheet is talents. Students have to write what they can do and what they can't do. The worksheet also presents link words such as "and, too, but" and it also provides pl ...
This worksheet was originally used as part of an enrichment activity to supplement a unit on animals in the New Parade 2 (elementary school) ESL textbook. At this stage, the students had already a ...
Students are introduced to the class rules through the use of 'can't', 'mustn't, and 'aren't allowed to'. They have some pictures and must form sentences with each of the modal verbs above and th ...
This is a presentation of modal verbs in PDF that explores the most problematic areas related to them: avoidance, comprehension, using the full infinitive, questions and negations, different forms ...
Asking permission is an essential part of social English that students often come across both in the classroom and real life. I usually explain to my learners the difference between can/could/may ...
These slides are to be used together with the song worksheet "Girl on Fire", by Alicia Keys. They are based on the modal verb 'can'. At first, as a warm up, some activities people can do are shown ...
These slides are based on the modal CAN and the song "Girl on Fire", by Alicia Keys. At first, as a warm up, some activities people can do are shown, and then it asks students what they can/ ...
For beginners. They need fun games too! This is a board game I did with elementary classes. It gets students to practice some functional classroom language (Can I...?, shapes, numbers, class objec ...
This is a 2-page worksheet for revising modal verbs at pre-intermediate level. There are 4 different activities in which students are asked to fill in the gaps with a suitable modal verb, rewrite ...
This is a worksheet in which my learners have to form a meaningful sentences to express abilities.Step one: they are going to look at the pictures in order to help themselves to understand the cla ...
This song can be used to teach past modals. It can also lead to a discussion on love and how some people value what they had once they no longer have .The song is nice and easy to follow. It´ ...
This animated Power Point presentation may prove a good grammar and vocabulary drilling for starters. It focuses on the Present Simple forms of the verbs ‘to be’, ‘can’ and ...
This is a test I´ve created to check the knowledge of usage of modal verbs: have to, must, can and might. It is an elementary level and it includes vocabulary connected to household chores. ...
This is a worksheet to work with the song "Hall of fame" by The Script.They are simple activities because the song is not complex.I recommend to use the video to talk about what the song is about. ...
Help students gain practice with past modal verbs! This worksheet for intermediate students gives both introductory information and follow-up exercises about using modal verbs to speculate about t ...
Before you give this exercise you can make a hot potato with the sentences from exercise 2,then you can give them the worksheet and they will practice abilities ( can and can't ) , word orde ...
This worksheet is designed to be used within the context of a theme on zoo animals for an elementary (grade 2) classroom. The sheet is an oral activity where students discuss the different activi ...
This is a 2-page worksheet for intermediate students on modal verbs. The first page is basically just a grammar guide with simple explanations and example sentences and the second page has 3 acti ...
This worksheet has listening comprehension exercises. It could be used for practising types of films or introducing the topic of films. I used this worksheet with pre-intermediate students as a wa ...
Gap fill activity using the song Everlong by The Foo Fighters. It can be used as a warmer for Halloween, as it contains references from an 80's horror film, The Evil Dead, or as a review for verbs ...
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