🎟️ What Can We Do?
New unit: free time and events! Omar and Ines are planning their weekend. Learn to say what you can and can't do ("I don't know how to skate!"), to ask about options ("What's going on?" · "We could go to the aquarium or the stadium.") and the places for events in your city.
Weekend Plans
Friday, at the school library. Omar has a leaflet with all the city's weekend events.
🤔 What's going on in your town this weekend?
💪 Expressing Ability
Use can + verb to describe abilities. Can has two negative forms: can't and cannot — they mean the same thing.
✅ can / ❌ can't
- John can drive.
- I can't speak Spanish.
- I cannot speak Spanish.
- ❓ Can you skate? — Yes, I can. / No, I can't.
🧠 know how to
- I know how to drive.
- I don't know how to swim.
- = you learned it (or not!)
📊 How good?
- Carol is really good at chess.
- James is pretty bad at computer games.
- I'm terrible at driving. (very low ability)
- good at / bad at + really, very, pretty
Listen to the stress! Can is usually not stressed — it's said quickly: "I c'n play tennis." Can't is stressed: "I CAN'T play tennis." · pretty has two meanings: "She's pretty." = beautiful · "She's pretty good at chess." = quite good.
👂 Can Or Can't?
Listen carefully (the sentence is hidden!) — did you hear can or can't? 8 sentences.
📊 How Good Are They?
Read the situation and choose the best sentence. 8 situations.
🗓️ Asking About And Describing Options
Ask what people want to do, list what's available, and give choices.
❓ Ask
- What do you want to do?
- What are we going to do this weekend?
- What's going on?
📋 List with and
- There's a new movie at the theater and a lecture at the university.
- There are some great movies and plays going on this week.
🔀 Choose with or
- We can go to the lecture or the movie.
- You could go swimming or you could go hiking.
- More? What else is there to do? · What else is going on?
📌 What's On This Weekend?
Click two events on the board — listen to Ines list them, and Omar give the choice!
🏟️ Places For Events
Where do events happen? Click each place to hear it.
Event words: an event = something organized (a concert, a match, a show) · a band = a group of musicians · traditional music (like malouf!) · classical music (like Beethoven) · Check it out! = Go and see it, it's good! · An auditorium is a big room for talks and shows, often at a school or a university.
📍 The Place Finder
Where can you go for this event? 8 events.
Listen And Repeat!
Click 🔊 Listen to hear the phrase, 🐢 Slowly to hear it slower, then 🎙️ My turn and say it out loud into your microphone!
✍️ Practice Time!
Exercise 1 — True Or False?
Exercise 2 — Complete The Dialogue
Fill in the missing word in each line of the conversation.
🎭 Create & Record: Planning Our Weekend
Write a conversation between two friends planning their weekend (with their parents' OK!). Ask What's going on?, list events with There's… and…, give choices with could… or…, ask What else…?, and talk about what you can / can't do or are good at / terrible at.
🎙️ Now, Record It!
Read your dialogue out loud with a friend. Say can quickly and CAN'T strongly! Then listen back.
🎯 Final Quiz — What Can We Do?
Answer 7 questions to test everything you learned in this lesson!