Use of CAN/CAN´T in affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences

1. Martínez Wilson – Olivares Belen
Practice II
Lesson Plan Nº 8
School: Escuela Nº4 Coronel Remigio Gil
Teacher: Romina Cheme
Trainees: Martinez, Wilson Guillermo – Olivares, Leonela Belen
Courses: 6to C / 6to D
Timetable: Monday 15:45-16:25 (6to C)
16:35-17:15 (6to D)
Thursday 15:45-16:25 (6to D)
16:35-17:15 (6to C)
Level: Elementary
Time: 40 Minutes per Course
Methodology: Introduction of a new topic, “CAN/ CAN´T”.
Language Exponents: Use of CAN/CAN´T in affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences.
Language Skills: Listening- Speaking- Reading- Writing.
Aims:
- Introduction of new vocabulary in order to expand the children´s knowledge.
- Give students opportunities to share with us and the rest of the class about their own
abilities.
- Contextualize the new vocabulary in order to describe different abilities by combining it
with the CAN structure.
Personal Aims:
- Analyse how they behave with the different teaching styles in order to adapt the activities to
their needs.
- Give students confidence to interact and participate in the classes.
Class description:
The students in this elementary class are between 11 and 12 years old. They are 25 students in each
classroom (15 girls and 9 boys in 6to C – 16 girls and 10 boys in 6to D). The class starts at 15:45 in
the afternoon, until 16:25 in one of the classrooms. Once the class finish, and after a ten minutes
break, the second class starts at 16:35 until 17:15. Usually, students enter to the classroom very
excited and noisy since they come from the break. After that it takes more or less 10 minutes to
calm them down. Nevertheless, they work very hard and effectively when the activities are
presented. One important aspect about this class is that, as they are very young and with a low level
of English, they speak in Spanish all the time.

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Practice II
Materials:
Blackboard, students ‘notebooks, photocopies provided by the teachers, projector, audio system and
computer.
Procedures
Warm up
We will start our class checking the homework assigned the previous class. It consists of writing
sentences according to the drawings in the students´ workbook.

3. Martínez Wilson – Olivares Belen
Practice II
Activity 1
We will display a video about “Madagascar 3” about a scene in which the characters perform
different activities during a circus show. After this 3 minutes video presentation, students will have
work with a comprehension activity in which the have to recognize the abilities of the characters.
They will have to produce sentences in the affirmative and negative form. Eg. The tiger can run, but
he can´t fly.

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Practice II
Activity 2
Since we had not had enough time the previous class, we will work with the activity N° 2 in page 61
from the students´ workbook.
Homework
We will remind students that they have to study for the test due on Thursday 10th
.