1. Liceo Andrés Bellos
Unidad Técnico Pedagógica
Departamento de Inglés
Miss Elisa Porras
CLASS 1: Living in a new city
Adapted from Go for Chile 2001
Objetivo: Los estudiantes serán capaces de entender cómo usamos can, can’t,
could and couldn’t.
Habilidades: Reconocer, reflexionar, aplicar.
Keywords:
To be in contact: estar en contacto Everywhere: cualquier lugar
Laptop: computador portátil Ski: esquiar
Vacations: vacaciones Play a song: tocar una canción
Amazing: increíble Summer vacations: vacaciones de verano
Skydiving: paracaídismo to be scare: estar asustado
Read the next letter in silence.
Dear Sergio:
Great! We’re in contact now. Let me tell you that many things are different now. In this new city
you can do many things. Let me tell you!
As you know I love computers. There are many computers at my new school and I have a laptop
that I carry everywhere. For example, I can write e-mails and I can play games on line . Can you
use a computer now? Which is your favorite activity in vacations?
What other things can I do? Well, I’m in the swimming team at school and I can swim 100 metres.
Do you remember I could ski there? Well in this city, I can’t ski because here there’s no snow! but
I can ride my bike everyday in a park.
I learnt to play the guitar, so next time we meet, we can play a song together. I remember you can
cook, well I confess I can’t cook , It’s too difficult!
My last summer vacations were amazing! I discovered many things I could do. I went skydiving. A
friend told me about a place where you could do it and I and my best friend decided to try. We
had to arrive several hours before the jump so we could ask for some advices and they could give
us instructions how to jump. They gave us the skysuits. I was scared but I COULD DO IT! It was
great! I can’t do it now because I’m studying and I don’t have time.
What about you? What can you do now that you couldn’t two years ago? Let me know…

2. Best wishes,
Andres
Reading worksheet
1. Read the text again and underline the key words in the text.
2. Read the text and circle the cognates.
3. Re-read the text and circle the activities Andres can and can’t do.
4. Re-read the text and underline the activities Andres could and
couldn’t do.
5. Complete the following sentences:
a. Andres belongs to the_________________________________ and he
___________________________ 100 metres.
b. He ___________________________ e-mails and
________________________________ when he uses his laptop.
c. Last ___________________________ he could do
______________________________.
d. At the park he ____________________________________________.
e. He ___________ cook .
f. His friend _______________________ but
Andres__________________________.
6. Mark True (T)or False (F)
a. Andres could do surfing in his summer vacations.
______________
b. Andres can ski everyday.
______________
c. His new school has many computers.
______________
d. He can’t play computer games.
______________
e. He could play the piano.
______________
f. Andres couldn’t do skydiving.
______________
7. What kind of text is it? It’s an …………………………………
8. Who wrote it? ……………………………..

3. 9. What is the text about? It’s about
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10. Write a sentence telling what you can and can’t do at school.
Follow the example.
I can go in the teachers’ room without permission but I can’t go in the Director’s office.
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11. Write a sentence telling what you could do and couldn’t do in
your last winter vacations. Follow the example:
I could walk in the beach but I couldn’t swim because the water was too cold.
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