Wednesday, September 20th 2023

Lesson 2: Tools! When I was a child...!

Objectives: At the end of this lesson students will be able to:

• Talk about abilities in the past.

• Express when someone could do different things.

• Ask and answer about past and present abilities.

• Ask for information.

• Retell past events

Target language:

• Modal verb: “Could.” Past ability.

I could swim. I couldn’t play the piano.

Could you run when you were five? Yes, I could/ No, I couldn’t.

What could you do when you were three?

• Time clauses: When I was a child, I could…

• Extreme sports: climbing, parachute jumping, skating, skiing, surfing.

Recycled language:

• Simple past: verb to be (was, were).

Notebook Activity:

Write some activities you could do when you were a child.

Book Activity 1: Listen and match. P. 60 (track 28)

Book Activity 2: Look at her lifetime and say what she could do. P. 60

Book Activity 3: Go to the cut-out section. Cut and complete the table. P. 60

Let’s go to practice:
Examples:

Past ability (habilidad en el pasado)

- I could run very fast when I was little.

(Yo podía correr muy rápido cuando era niño)

Requested (pedido)

- Could you help me with my homework, please?

(¿Me podrías ayudar con mi tarea, por favor?)

Atención: Como todos los verbos modales,

COULD es invariable, es decir, no cambia
según el pronombre. Example: I could play
. for hours. He could play for hours
 Estructura de las oraciones con could
Could va siempre seguido de un verbo principal en infinitivo (sin to). La
estructura de las oraciones con could es:

Oraciones afirmativas:

Subject (sujeto) + could + verbo infinitivo.

Example: He could play the piano when he was a kid.

Oraciones negativas:

Subject (sujeto) + could not (couldn’t) + verbo infinitivo.

Example: She couldn’t believe what he said.

Oraciones interrogativas:

Could + subject + verbo infinitivo + ?

Example: Could you speak English when you were little?

MORE EXAMPLES:

1. My sister could play the guitar when she was five years old.
2. Bob could count up to 100 at the age of three.
3. As Ben could speak four languages, he got the job.
4. I could do the exam fast, so I left the class early.
5. The boy saved his life because he could swim to the shore.
6. My parents could buy that big house because they had savings.
 7. I could sign up for the competition just in time.
8. The project could take years to complete.
9. Could you speak to the teacher?
10. Could you open the window?
11. We could have tried doing it the other way round.
12. The doctor could see you tomorrow.
13. You could use my car if you needed it.
14. The boss could speak to us all next week.
15. I could stay over all summer at my best friend’s if I wanted to.
16. She could have moved somewhere else.
17. Joe couldn’t come to the party.
18. The students couldn’t understand the lesson.
19. My father couldn’t speak English when he was a child.
20. I couldn’t sleep last night.

HOMEWORK:

Book page: 158