Can you eat your house?

Abilities Mix and Match

Instructions for teachers

Staple the pages together and cut along the dotted lines so that you have a book with
each page split into three. Students take turns making crazy questions that must be
answered by “No, I can’t” and changing their partner’s questions into ones that someone
might say “Yes, I can” to. All the options have at least one good match and at least one
crazy match.

As a variation, you can also cut the pages into cards to be put together to make the same
kinds of questions.

p. 1
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 Can you

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bring me

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a tree?

p. 2
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 Can you

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catch

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a bicycle?

p. 3
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 Can you

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clean

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a butterfly?

p. 4
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 Can you

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climb

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a baseball?

p. 5
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 Can you

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cook

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a chair?

p. 6
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 Can you

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eat

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a dictionary?

p. 7
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 Can you

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grow

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your English teacher?

p. 8
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 Can you

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paint

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your homework book?

p. 9
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 Can you

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pass me

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a flower?

p. 10
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 Can you

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pick up

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a wall?

p. 11
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 Can you

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put on

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four bananas?

p. 12
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 Can you

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read

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a tie?

p. 13
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 Can you

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ride

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an eraser?

p. 14
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 Can you

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speak to

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vegetable soup?

p. 15
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 Can you

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throw

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your house?

p. 16
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