El verbo poder en inglés

1. Can
I can swim and I can walk
We can talk and we can think
They can dance and they can laugh

2. Can’t
• Fish can’t fly
• Birds can’t dive
• An alligator can’t cry
• And you and I, can’t fight

3. Things we can do
• We, the people, can do many things, and we
in fact do many things throughout the day,
every week of our life.
• What things can you do at home?
• What things can you do in the street?
•

4. Timetables

5. From Monday to Friday

7. Can we do something on
Thursday?
• What can we do on Tuesday?
• Can we go dancing on Monday?
• I can’t, I have to do the laundry Monday night!
• Can we go swimming on Tuesday then?
• Yes, we could. What time is it good with you?
• And what about Wednesday? Can we do
something that day?

8. Exercise*
Complete these sentences. Use can or can’t +
one of these verbs.
Come find hear see
speak
1. I’m sorry, but we ……. can’t come…. to your party
next Saturday
2. I like this hotel room. You ………………………..the
mountains from the window
3. You are speaking very quietly. I ………………..you
4. Have you seen my bag? I ………………………..it
5. Catherine got te job because she……………………five
languagesExercise taken from Essential Grammar in Use 3rd edition by Raymond Murphy, Cambridge

9. Exercise
Put the words in the correct order to form sentences
and questions
• Brother/ Eric / my/ swim/ very well / can
• You / do / laundry/ the/ can / today?
• do/ we/ shopping/ can/ Saturday/ next/ the
• They / study/ home/ at/ can
• Cook/ he/ can / well/ very
• Have/ we/ can/ breakfast/ where?

10. Links to web pages where you can
practice
• Advanced:
http://www.englishpage.com/modals/interact
ivemodal1.htm (botón derecho, abrir
hipervínculo)