Ingles Adolescentes 3 - Villa Mercedes

April, 15th. 2020.

Welcome back to a new online lesson

🔁In our last class we worked with the modal verb CAN for abilities.
Today we are going to work with CAN but use for:

• Requests (peticiones)
• Permission (permisos)

Generally we use CAN I... ? or CAN YOU...? to ask for something.

👉For example:

• Can you open the window, please?
• Can I have a glass of water?
• Can you give me my pen?
• Can I open the door? It's hot in here.

📌We use “can” in these ways:
– to ask for something
– to ask to do something
– to ask other people to do things for us.

Here are some examples.

“Can I open the window in here?”
“Can we sit here?”
“Can I have two coffees and a coke, please?”
“Can you help me?”

💛To be polite in English, you can add “please” at the end of a question asking someone to do something for you:

“Can you get me the menu, please?”
“Can you tell me the time, please?”

How to reply to a request

✔Here are some positive replies:

“Can I open the window in here?”– Sure, go ahead.
– No problem.
– No worries.
– Yes, sure.
– Yes, of course you can.

“Can you help me?”
– Of course!
– Sure!
– Certainly!

❎Here are some negative replies (when you refuse a request):

Can I open the window in here?
– Actually, I’d prefer it closed.
– I’m sorry, but I’m cold.

Can we sit here?
– Sorry, the seat’s taken.
– I’m sorry, but you can’t. Someone else is sitting here.

Let's practice. 

💣Copy on your notebooks the following sentences.

1. Write the questions by putting the words in the correct order

1. Sally / play / volleyball / Can / us / with?  

2. phone / I  / please / your / Can /use? 

3. close / you / that door / Can / please? 

4. go / we all / Can / to / the game? 

5. join /Can / your / drama club / I?

2. Complete the sentences

1. A: Can II canI can´t borrow your pencil?

    B: No problem. Here you go.

2. A: Can heHe can´tHe can help me with my homework?

    B: No, can hehe canhe can´t. He´s busy!

3. A:  Can youYou canYou can´t give me a ride home?

    B: Sure. Can weWe can´tWe can meet after 10:00.

4. A: Can heHe canHe can´t  lend us his car tomorrow?

    B: Yes, can hehe canhe can´t.

5. A: Can II can´tI can carry all these books. They´re too heavy. Can youYou canYou can´t help me?

    B: I sure cancan´t.

Ok people! That's all for today!

See you next class!!