DIALOGUE

Practice by reading the dialogue with your tutor. After you are done, switch roles and do it again! 📘

• K: Can you speak English?
• D: Yes, I can. If I practice, I could speak better.
• K: We could practice English together if you like.
• D: Sure! Could we practice on Monday?

 

NEW SKILL

 

Using the verbs “can” and “could” 📘

Read the diagram out loud with your tutor.

 

VOCABULARY

Go over the vocabulary below with your tutor.

 

 

 

EXERCISE

Make a sentence using the words. You can use the picture above with can and could. 📘

• Ask for permission in a more polite way. salt, pass, you, the, could

Could you pass the salt?

• Make a sentence using cannot (not allowed). cannot, drink, coffee, you, now ________________________________.
• Make a suggestion. What do you want to do? go, if, could, we, you, bowling, like  ____________________________________________.
• Request something in an informal way. loan, five, can, me, you, dollars __________________________________________________.
• A general ability in the past. could, he, five, run, kilometers, before _______________________________________________.

 

 

 

Fill in the blank with “can” or “could.” 📘

• When I was eighteen years old, I could eat a lot of food.
• He _______ cook good.
• ________ we take a break please? (formal)
• If we hurry, we __________ catch the bus.
• ________ I help you make the bed?

 

 

Fill in the blank with the job described.

• Person who helps the doctor ________________
• Person who puts out fires ___________________
• Person who catches criminals __________________
• Person who designs buildings ________________
• Person who writes books ___________________

 

Discussion Questions

• What is your job? Do you like it?
• What did you want to be when you were a child?
• If money was not an issue, what job would you like?
• What did your parents do for a living? Did they like it?
• What do you think makes a person like their job?

 

 

 

(Image source: 1. http://image.slidesharecdn.com/inglesgrupo-151227065204/95/zero-conditional-2-638.jpg?cb=1451199135, 2. http://www.slideshare.net/yanierpreciadohurtado/zero-conditional-63890374)