Name: Lê Thùy Linh

Unit 14 – Can/ Could for ability and permission

Lesson 2 – Can/ Could for permission

1. Class description:

● Level: Starters
● Class members: 10 students

2. Lesson duration: 90 minutes

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

- Recognize and use can/ could to give/ refuse and ask for permission.

4. Lists of practice exercises in class:

 Exercise 7+8, SB p81, OXG3

 Exercise 9, OXG3, SB p82
 Exercise 10+11, audio 14.3 + 14.4, OXG3, SB p82
 Exercise 12, OXG3, SB p82

5. Language Focus:

- Vocabulary: refuse, sense, broken, dance, hear, far, fire, fix, sweets, of course,
museum

- Grammar:
+ We use can/ could to give and refuse permission.

+ We use can/ could to ask for permission.

- Skills: Speaking, Listening, Writing, Reading.

6. Procedure:

Stage Objectives Teacher’s activities Reference

- To - Have Ss listen to the conversation. https://

www.youtube
I. Warm-up. energize Ss .com/watch?
before the v=avMCZt0PIt
5’ class starts. 8

II. Present + Act 1: Homework

Practice
Act 2: Review can/ could for https://
20’ ability wordwall.net/
vi/resource/
- Have Ss play the game to review 26094571/
can/ could for ability can-cant-
could-coudnt

Act 3: Can/ could for permission

10’ - T give some examples:
Ex: You can watch another film, but
you can’t have any more chocolate.
Could I go to the bathroom, please?
- T elicit the way to use can/ could.
+ We use can/ could to give and
refuse permission.
+ We use can/ could to ask for
permission.
15’ Act 4: Write one rule with can and
one rule with can’t for each place.
(Exercise 7+8, SB p81, OXG3)
- Divide class into 2 teams.
- Ss run to the board and write all the
rules for each place.
- Ss have to use both can/ can’t.
- The team with the most correct
sentences wins.
- Have Ss 5m to complete their
exercises in their books.
- Then Ss work in groups, choose
one of the places in exercise 7, say
the rules but don’t say the place.
Other Ss guess the place.

Act 5: Tick the correct answer.

(Exercise 9, OXG3, SB p82)
10’ - Have Ss time to complete their
exercises in their books.
- Ss swap their books, check the
answers.
- T check the answers with class
by inviting Ss to read the correct
sentences.
Act 6: Listen and tick. (Exercise
15’ 10+11, audio 14.3 + 14.4, OXG3,
SB p82)
- Ss work in pairs, look at the
pictures and guess the story of each
picture.
- T play the audio twice, Ss listen
and tick yes/no.
- T play the audio again, Ss check
the answers.
- Then Ss listen again, put the
responses in the correct place.

- T check the answers.

10’ Act 7: Speaking (Exercise 12,

OXG3, SB p82)
- Ss work in pairs, ask their partner’s
permissions to do something. Their
partners will give or refuse
permission.
Ex: Can I take photos here?
No, I’m afraid not.
- T invites some pairs to practice.

III. Conclude - Ss review all what they learnt.

Wrap-up what they - Homework
+Homework. learn
5’ today.