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 is a 20 sentence worksheet for elementary students to test their understanding of the modals can (can't), have to (don't have to) in the context of sports. It has two simple exercises (10 sen ...
I used this worksheet with 10 year-old children and they loved it. You can work the use of can/can't, extensive and intensive listening, and descriptions. The characters, song and the movie are we ...
This worksheet is useful when you try to teach your students the use of the modal verb can, I based it on some signs we can find everywhere, on the roads, in pubs, restaurants or the library, etc. ...
Get students to make sentences using can or can't for ability, when finished ask them to write about themselves or about a classmate, without saying who he/she is! Great content!
A simple and useful task. Students have to look at the images and write a sentences describing the character's abilities. It can be used with elementary students. The worksheet includes activiti ...
Here's a useful attractive 2 page grammar worksheet on modal verbs (can, could, may, must should) with explanations, examples sentences and 3 different activities to go with it, where students ar ...
This is a general knowledge activity for kids to practice different question forms about the past in a fun way. It includes "wh-" questions (which, what), the past of "can" (could), "how long" and ...
A set of cards designed for developing speaking skill at elementary level. Students will learn or reinforce the use of modal verb can/can't to express on's ability. The task is very simple: they ...
In this worksheet your little students (I recommend this worksheet for elementary students) should read short sentences and guess who says them (who can do this). The worksheet includes two varian ...
This worksheet can be used to teach primary students to check their comprehension on the use of modal verb can/can't to express one's ability. This worksheet will help the students to enrich ...
This is a board game to encourage conversation and to practise asking and answering the questions using "can" and talking about one's ability. A fun way to teach modal verbs to lower-level students!
The worksheet will be useful for those of you working with PEARSON Longman Success Upper-Intermediate. It is to go with the first lesson of Module 6 Secret Worlds. It is supposed to be used as the ...
This is a quick speed dating activity, it's a communicative approach to the model can. It's also got a lot of fun questions in which students are prompted to ask each other what they can and can' ...
A worksheet on Modal Verbs. Contains brief summary on their use with examples and six different exercises in which students answer the questions about the text, say if the statements are true or f ...
This is a very simple worksheet on Can / can't to express ability and inability including negative, interrogative and negative forms, Reading comprehension and writing activities.
It is the lyrics of the song. I practised it with adult students (because it is an older song) who learn "can, cant" for ability. Students will have several tasks in the worksheet. Firstly, they h ...
A worksheet to practice modal verbs and consolidate them in a quick and simple way with a multiple choice exercise. Each sentence provides a picture to help students understand the sentences.
We are aware of the difficulty and problems that your students have with modal verbs and their functions: ability, obligation, possibility , certainty, for example. Here, you have four exercises ...
This worksheet (3 pages) is about Famine. Sts have to make a list with immediate needs and future needs, make up sentences by using must, can, will, should, might and could. On the last page sts h ...
In this worksheet, kids look at the pictures of sports and hobbies and then put the words in order to make a CAN / CAN`T sentence. As a follow up they use the same pictures to do a read and ma ...
Do you say 'I can to read' or 'I can read' ? Do we say 'She can drive' or 'She cans drive' ? Explain to students the rules that apply to this modal verb and then check their understanding with ...
Students read the text and have to use "should have" and "could have" to discuss the obvious mistakes Marsha made on her job interview. People preparing for a job interview will also learn about h ...
This test on CAN, ANIMALS and IMPERATIVES has two sets that look the same at first glance but they have some little differences to prevent students from PEEPING. If one of them tries to cheat by ...
This is a short exercise that is very useful to revise descriptions and to introduce the interrogative form of the modal verb CAN. It has been specially designed for elementary students aged betwe ...
This worksheet consists of two parts: reading and writing. Student's practice body parts vocabulary, verbs, have got/has got, can/cannot, Present Continuous. There are questions after the text. In ...
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