This lesson plan outlines teaching an elementary English class about the words "CAN" and "CAN'T". It will introduce these terms through a video about animal abilities and flashcards. Students will then practice using "CAN" and "CAN'T" in sentences about their own abilities through listening, speaking, reading and writing activities. The lesson aims to expand students' vocabulary and give them confidence using their new English skills.

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Lesson Plan Nº 6
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

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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.
Materials:
Blackboard, students ‘notebooks, projector, audio system and computer.
Procedures
Warm up:
We will start our class displaying a video about animal’s abilities (https://m.youtube.com/watch?
v=_Ir0Mc6Qilo) in order to progressively introduce them to the new topic: “CAN/CAN`T”.
Activity 1
After the video presentation, we are going to explain, as well as introduce them, new vocabulary
related to the different abilities presented in the song through flashcards previously designed by the
teachers.
Once the new vocabulary is explained, we are going to ask them questions such as what can you
do? Can you swim/ride a bike...? Always combining the questions with the use of flashcards so as
to guide them. However, we will not tell them the meaning of CAN yet as we want them to get the
meaning by themselves.
FLASHCARDS

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Activity 2
In order to use the students`book, we are going to work with the unit: “I can`t swim”. This activity
consists of a listening comprehension activity in which students have to listen the words in the banner.
After that they will have to read the words and say them aloud.
Activity 3
Choose two of the flashcards and write a sentence about you like in the model.

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Example:
I CAN speak English but I CANNOT ride a bike.
Homework:
We will ask students to write isolated verbs according to the abilities they have. The aim of this
homework is to provide students with opportunities to use the new verbs, since they have rarely used
them previously. For example, run, walk, dance, etc. The next class we will introduce the complete
CAN structure and we will use their own abilities as examples.