Action Words: can and can’t ESL Video Lesson

• Topic: Action verbs with can and can’t, Words, Sentences
• Vocabulary:  action verbs, swim, jump, read, write, fly, walk
• Grammar:  This lesson uses the action verbs can and can’t to express ability, and uses the pronouns I and they in conjunction with the action verbs.

Expressions with modal verbs ‘can’.

• Dolphins can swim.
• Dolphins can’t fly.
• Contractions:
• Dolphins can’t fly. / Dolphins cannot fly.
• Pronoun ‘they’ for a
• I can’t fly.
• They can’t fly.