COLEGIO DE EDUCACION BASICA Y MEDIA TECNICA “ANTONIO NARIÑO”

VILLA DE LEYVA
VIRTUAL Learning Guide English Seventh Grade
Learning Guide 1

1. DBA: Reconoce información específica relacionada con objetos, personas y animales.

2. Objetivos:
a. Reconocer y utilizar correctamente el verbo CAN en sus diversas formas.
b. Expresar habilidades e inhabilidades de las personas y los animales mediante el uso
correcto del verbo CAN.

3. CONTENIDOS:
VERBO CAN:

El verbo Can se utiliza para expresar habilidad o inhabilidad, capacidad para realizar o no, alguna
actividad. EJEMPLO:

I can play the guitar. (yo puedo tocar la guitarra)

I can’t play the piano. (no se tocar el piano)
My dad can write poems. (mi papá puede o sabe escribir poemas)
The cat can´t eat bones. (El gato no puede comer huesos)
Can the dog drink water? Yes, it can No, it can’t (¿Puede el perro beber agua? Si, él puede)
She can speak six languages. (Ella puede hablar 6 idiomas)
They can’t play basquetball very well. (Ellos no pueden jugar basquetbol muy bien)
Etc.

REGLAS:

Affirmative Form: S+V+C : Martha can sing very well.

Negative Form: S+CAN+NEG+V+C : Martha cannot sing very well.
Interrogative form: CAN+S+V+C? Can Martha sing very well?
Short Answers: Yes/no+S+CAN/CAN’T: Yes, she can. No, she can’t

NOTA: El verbo CAN se utiliza de la misma forma con todas las personas, no se agrega “S” en las
terceras, es un error.
El verbo CAN no admite el uso de “TO”, es un error.
I can to play. (Error) I can play. (Correct form)

4. ACTIVIDADES:

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1. Look at the chart, answer the questions and complete the information:

Dance Sing Play the Cook Ride in a Swim

 guitar bike
Ann X X
Mike X X X
Tim and X X X
Samantha
Cathy X X
John and X X
Paul
a. Can Ann sing? ___________________
b. Can Mike ride a bike? _____________
c. Can Tim and Samantha cook? _______
d. Can Ann play the guitar? ___________
e. Can John and Paul swim? __________
f. Can Cathy dance? _________________

2. Complete with CAN or CAN’T:

a. Mike can dance but Ann ____________

b. Cathy can swim but she ______ cook.
c. Tom and Samantha _____ ride a bike.
d. John and Paul _______play the guitar but they _______ sing.
e. Mike _______ play the guitar but Cathy ______ .
f. Mike _______ ride a bike but he ________ cook.
g. Tim and Samantha ______ swim but they _______ sing.

3. Animals’ abilities and inabilities. Make sentences:

a. A parrot (speak-swim) A parrot can speak but it can’t swim.

b. A cat (catch a mouse-climb trees)
c. A rooster (get up early-give eggs)
d. A snake (walk-fly)
e. A goat (climb rocks-swim)
f. A horse (run very fast-hunt prey)
g. A monkey (climb trees-repeat some words)

4. READING:

Hi! I am Pete. I can ride bicycle, but I can’t ride horse. I can play the guitar, but I can’t
play the piano. I can speak Spanish and English, but I can’t speak Chinese. I can swim
very well, but I can’t sing. I can dance and run, but I can’t sky. I can play basquetball, but
I can’t play tennis.
Hi! I am Mary I can play tennis, but I can’t play football. I can play the piano, but I can’t
play the guitar. I can speak English and French, but I can’t speak German. I can ride
bicycle and I can ride a horse too. I can’t swim. I can run very fast, but I can’t dance. I can
sing very well.

Describe what they can do and what they can’t do. (Use sentences)
5. Describe what you can do and what you can’t do. (Write a short paragraph)

NOTE: Develop this work in your notebook.

6. Checking activities:

Jobs and abilities:

Participate in fashion
shows.
Coordinate a group of
Pilots workers.
A bodyguard Fly any kind of plane.
Cowboys Plumb in a dishwasher.
Directors Shot at any suspicious
Secretaries CAN person.
Plumbers Read and write more than
A model one language.
A translator Ride horses and gather the
cattle.
Type very fast.

a. Write the sentences in complete form. (affirmative)

b. Translate the same sentences in negative.
c. Ask yes/no questions. (remember use CAN)

7. Make a short summary (in Spanish) about the things that you learned with the
development of this topic.

8. Teacher contact information:

Name: María Caro Coutín.

E-mail address: yayiz26@gmail.com
Cellphone number: 3208182757 (available from Monday to Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 1:45
p.m. )

THANKS A LOT.

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