Can / can't for abilities
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Can / can't for abilities
Can / can't for abilities
🎯 Objectives
Express abilities and inability using can and can't.
📘 Essential lesson
- Can expresses an ability: I can swim.
- Can't expresses inability: I can't drive.
- After can or can't, use the base form of the verb.
🗣️ Language focus
Read the model carefully, identify the useful words or grammar pattern, then reuse the same structure with new information.
Speak in short complete sentences and pay attention to word order, verb form and pronunciation.
✏️ Worked examples
Example 1
Model. She can speak English.
Explanation. Can is followed by the base verb speak.
Example 2
Model. He can't swim.
Explanation. Can't expresses inability.
🧭 Method
- Read or listen to the model sentence.
- Identify the key vocabulary or grammar pattern.
- Build a new sentence using the same structure.
- Check word order, subject, verb form and punctuation.
⚠️ Common mistakes
- Using the wrong form of be or forgetting -s with he/she in the present simple.
- Translating French word order directly into English.
- Forgetting capital letters, apostrophes or question marks.
- Using a vocabulary word in the wrong context.
✅ Remember
I can understand the model, choose the correct words, build a short sentence and check my English before I finish.
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