Actions: Can / Can’t ESL Video
- Topic: Action, can, cannot: Dolphin show
- Communication Objectives: This lesson will teach ESL learns how to express their abilities using can and can’t.
- Language Objectives: The objective of this lesson is to use can and can’t to introduce abilities and new action words into the learner’s vocabulary.
- Dialogue Story: Lisa and Freddie are watching a dolphin show with their parents. They are amazed by everything the dolphins can do. Lisa tries to feed the dolphins after the dolphin makes a big splash.
- Sentence Structures:
- I can’t jump that high.
- They can swim and jump at the same time.
- Dolphins can do many things.
- Dolphins can’t fly.
- Can they read and write?
Vocabulary: action verbs – jump, swim, write, read, stand, fly
