Read Sergey’s and Anna’s stories.

Sergey:

There are a lot of things I can do. I can drive a car. I can speak French. I often go to France with my family. I can play football and I can swim. Very well I can play the guitar.

Anna:

There are a lot of things I can’t do. I can’t drive a car. I can’t speak French. I can’t play football but I can swim. I can’t play the guitar but I can dance very well.

Answer the questions about Anna and Sergey.

Example: 1. Can Sergey drive a car? Yes, he can.

2. Can Anna play football? No, she can’t.

3. Can Anna speak French?

4. Can Sergey swim?

5. Can Anna dance?

6. Can Sergey play the guitar?

7. Can Anna drive a car?

Can you do all these things?

Study the rule.

Модальный глагол can

В английском языке имеется группа глаголов, лексическое значение которых не обозначает действия, а выражает отношение к действию, то есть возможность, вероятность, необходимость совершения действия. Такие глаголы называются модальными.

Эту группу глаголов объединяют следующие признаки:

а) у них нет форм инфинитива и причастия;

б) они не изменяются по лицам и числам, т.е. имеют единую форму для всех лиц единственного и множественного числа;

в) инфинитив смыслового глагола следует за ним без частицы to;

г) вопросительную и отрицательную формы они образуют без вспомогательного глагола do.

Study the forms of the modal verb can.

Positive

I He/She/It We You They

can

swim

Negative

I He/She/It We You They

can’t (cannot)

swim

Yes/No questions

Can

you he/she they

swim?

No, I/he/he/they can’t. Yes, I/he/he/they can.

Модальный глагол can употребляется для выражения:

1) Возможности, умения, способности совершить действие.

I can translate this text. My daughter can read.

Я не могу перевести этот текст. Моя дочка умеет читать.

2) Разрешения выполнить действие.

You can use my dictionary. Can I come in?

Можешь взять мой словарь. Можно войти?

3) Просьбы.

Can you open the door, please?

Откройте дверь, пожалуйста.

Make the sentences negative.

1) I can play the piano.

2) She can cook very well.

3) We can speak Italian.

4) John can run very fast.

5) My grandmother can use a computer.

6) Her daughter can walk. She is only 1 year old.

7) He can do this work.

8) I can answer your question.

Complete the sentences. Use can or can’t.

1) I ____ speak foreign languages. French and Spanish.

2) Sorry, but we ____ come to your party tonight.

3) I like this hotel room. You ____ see the mountains from the window.

4) Sasha ____ read. She is too young.

5) Speak up, please! I ____ hear you.

6) She is very musical. She ____ play the piano and sing.

Ask the questions about you and your family.

1) Can you ski?

2) Can you play any musical instrument?

3) Can you play chess?

4) Can you mother drive a car?

5) Can you father cook?

6) Can you play tennis?

7) Can you sister/brother speak any foreign language?

8) Can you grandmother/father use a computer?

9) Can you fall in love at first sight?

Ask your group-mate some questions.

Tell the class about him/her.

Example: Olga can paint, but she can’t sing.

Compare the sentences.

I can swim. She can’t speak Spanish. Can you drive a car?

I could swim when I was six. She couldn’t speak Spanish last year. Could you drive a car when you were nineteen?

What is the difference?

What sentences are in the present?

What sentences are in the past?

What is the past form of can?

What is the past form of to be?

12. Study the Past Simple of to be.

Positive

I He/She/It	was	in Paris yesterday. in England last year.
We You They	were

Negative

I He/She/It	wasn’t	in Paris yesterday. in England last year.
We You They	weren’t

Special questions

Where	was	I ? He/She/It?
were	we? you? they?

Yes, No questions

Was	he she	at work? at home?	No, he wasn’t. Yes, she was.
Where	you they	Yes, I was. No, they weren’t.

When we speak about the past we often use the following expressions: yesterday (вчера), the yesterday evening (вчера вечером), day before yesterday (позавчера), last Sunday (в прошлое воскресенье), last year (в прошлом году), last month (в прошлом месяце), … years ago (… лет назад), in 1999 (в 1999 году).

Answer the questions.

1) Where were you at seven o'clock this morning?

2) Where were you at nine o’clock yesterday evening?

3) Where were you last Sunday?

4) Where was your mother at this time yesterday?

5) Where was your father last Saturday evening?

6) Where were you this time last year?

7) Where were you an hour ago?