Topic/Theme: Modal verbs

Date: 23.06.2022 Time: 45 min Teacher: Ruzanna Malkhasyan

Instructional Setting:
V grade
#of students: 19
Pre-intermediate level
Prior learning related to this lesson:
The students know the types of clothes based on the topic: Clothes

Purpose: What is the purpose of the lesson?

Students practice the use of the modal verb Can/Can’t.

Learning Objectives:
By the end of the session, Ss will be able to:
1 Identify the use of the modal verb can /can’t through given contexts.
2 Practice can/can’t in the given written and speaking tasks.

Assessment:
Quick check: What are you taking away from today’s lesson?
Students will tell one thing they can do in real life. (Make sure that everyone tells)

Procedures
Time Activities Materials
5min Warm up/Review
Mode: whole class Board/
1. Greet the students. Inquire how they are. flipchart,
2. Ask them the following questions and solicit responses. Write marker
some of the answers on the board (football, tennis,
basketball...).
a. What is your favourite sport?
b. What sports do you like?
c. What sports do you play?

3min Homework check

1. Tell Ss to compare their answers and do a peer check. Peer- check
Afterwards, show the correct answers on the board. (Appendix 1)

5min Lead-in
Mode: whole class
 1.Watch a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tScUb08F7os) Projector, PC
While-watching task: Ask the Ss to watch the video and notice (Appendix 2 a
which word is more repeated in every sentence? Solicit responses. video)
Post watching task: Ask the Ss the following question:
What can you do?
Demo/write on the board: I can sing. I cannot play football.
I can…/ I can’t…
15m Practice /grammar/ modal verb “Can, can’t” (Appendix 3
Mode: Whole class Edpuzzle)
1. Watch the video again and be ready to answer the
questions?
Mode: Individual work Handouts
2. Teacher tells the Ss that it is their turn to write What can they (Appendix 4)
do? She delivers handouts and asks them to write. For this, you
have 1m.
ICQs: Are you going to work alone or with peers? How much time do
you have for this task?
Mode: Peer work
3. Look at your paper, choose one picture and ask a question to
your friend next to you.
ICQs: Is it individual or peer work? Learningapps
Mode: Whole class (Appendix 5)
Look at the pictures and match the sentences to the correct pictures.

15m Freer practice/speaking task Handouts

Mode: Individual work (Appendix 6)
Find someone who…
1.Model. Give the following instructions to the SS.
a. move and ask 2 peers the questions on the handout while the music
is playing.
b. when the music stops, take your seats.
ICQs: How many pupils are you going to ask?
When are you going to take you seats?
2. Ask the students to choose one person and introduce 2 answers with
can, 1 with can’t.
Demo/example: I talked to Artashes. He can swim. He can play
football. He can’t fix cars.
2m Wrap up/review/Connections
Tell students to tell one thing they can do in the real life. Post the following
question: What can you do?

Homework: https://learningapps.org/view1830043 (Appendix 7)

LearningApps
 Appendix1

Appendix 2 a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a91oTyA0Oq8

Appendix 3 Edpuzzle: https://edpuzzle.com/media/62accf14a38ec84139816b5c
Appendix 4

Can or can’t?

I can swim. I ………. sing. I …………. fix

cars.

I………….play
football. I…………drink I……………
water. cook.

Learningapps (Appendix 5) Matching

Appendix 6
Can you……? Name- Name-
1.play football?
2.fix cars?
3. swim well?
4. cook spaghetti?
5. drink water?
6. sing English
songs?

Homework (Appendix 7) https://learningapps.org/view1830043