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Abilities 5 Do the questionnaire. Answer Yes, I can or No, I can’t.

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Grammar: can/can’t
Vocabulary: Common verbs What

1 In pairs, match the verbs in the box with the photos in can
the questionnaire in Exercise 5 and complete ?
you do
the questions.
cook dance paint roller-skate
sing speak swim 1
Can you sing?
2 CD•1.11 MP3•11 Listen. Tick (✓) what Jon and Mia can do
and cross (✗) what they can’t do.

roller-skate speak a foreign sing dance
language

Jon ✓
Mia
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3 Complete the text with can or can’t.
Can you ___?dance Can you ___?cook
Jon can roller-skate. He speak a foreign language.
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1
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He 3 sing. He dance. Jon’s sister, Mia,
roller-skate, too. She 6 speak a foreign language. She Bonjour!
7 sing. She 8 dance.
4 Read REMEMBER THIS. Then complete the cartoon
captions.
REMEMBER THIS
4 5 Can you ___ aspeak
can Can you ___?swim foreign language?
+ I/You/He/She/We/They can sing.

– I/You/He/She/We/They can’t sing.
? Can you sing?
Yes, I can./No, I can’t.

Yes, I .
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6 7
Can you ___? Can you ___?
1 Can you sing?
3
No, she ! 6 In pairs, ask and answer the questions in the
can’t
questionnaire. Then tell the class about your partner.
Teresa can dance, but she can’t paint. She …
7 In pairs, write fi ve questions. Use the ideas in the box or
your own ideas.
dance the tango draw comics play Halo
run ten kilometres ski speak three languages
swim a kilometre use the Internet

Can you dance the tango?
8 In pairs, ask and answer your questions from Exercise 7.
Then tell the class about your partner.
A: Can you run ten kilometres?
B: Yes, I can./No, I can’t. Can you …?
A: Maria can/can’t dance the tango. She …
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