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  The first Period:Section A (1a–1c)
Then introduces the key vocabularies and the words can and can’t.    
The teacher says to the students who say he/she wants to join the basketball club: 
Can you play basketball? Help the students say Yes, I can. No, I can’t. Then repeat 
with other actions or pictures, such as play volleyball.
Show the students the activities the people in each club can do with the same step. 
Then repeat with dance, swim, play chess, paint, speak English and play the guitar 
with the help of doing the action. Or we can use the PowerPoint to help us to show 
the students what we can do. The teacher can ask the students to practice the 
following dialogues with can.
         Can you dance? Yes, I can. / No, I can’t.
                 Can he paint? Yes, he can. /No, he can’t.
                 Can she speak English? Yes, she can. / No, she can’t. 
                 Can you speak English? Yes, we can. / No, we can’t.
                 Can you play it well? Yes, I can. / No, I can’t.
Do the action and read the new words and phrases.
Ask the students to practice can and can’t. Ask the students to practice can you 
play it well?
At the same time, the teacher write down sing, dance, swim, play chess, paint, speak 
English, and play the guitar on the blackboard. Ask the students to read after the 
teacher. 
Step 3 A game 
To be more familiar with the words and phrases, the teacher can organize a game like 
this:
Write the words and phrases on pieces of paper. Ask one of the students come to the 
front and choose one of the paper, then do the action. Ask other students to guess 
what he or she can do. Then exchange.
Step 4 Exercise
 Task 1:2
 Look at the pictures on Page 59.1a. Points to the activities the people in each 
club are doing. Say something about each club’s activity clearly. For example, This 
is a chess club. See the chess? They are playing chess.
Ask the students to match each club activity in the picture with a word from the 
list. For example: A can dance, so we can write  “a” beside dance. 
                                                                                     
The answers are: 1.dance a  2. swim  e  3. sing f   4. play chess b  5. paint  d 
6. speak English  c 7.play the guitar  g  
                                                                                  
 Task 2
 Say each conversation with a student in Part 1a. After doing this, play the 
recording the first time. Students only listen. Play the recording a second time. 
This time ask the students to listen to the conversations and write a number 1 next 
to the first conversation they hear, a number 2 next to the second one they hear, 
and a number 3 next to the third one they hear. Point out the sample answer. The 
answers are 2, 3, 1.
 Task 3
1c.Say the sample conversations. Have students repeat. Then ask students to practice 
the conversations in pairs. Ask them to use the vocabulary from 1a. As students work, 
listen in on various pairs so that you can check progress and help with pronunciation 
as needed.
After students have had a chance to practice the conversations, ask pairs to come 
to the front of the room and act out one of their conversations.
Step 5 Homework
 Task 1: workbook Page 38 Part 1, 2, 
 Task 2: fill in the form. Write down three things you can do and three things you 
can not do.
I can    I can’t