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Describing Skills and Abilities

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  • Communicative Objective: Learn to explain what someone can do now, could do in the past, or is learning to do.
  • 5 Core Functional Sentences:
    1. I can use several computer programs.
    2. She can speak English and Bengali.
    3. I could swim when I was six years old.
    4. He cannot drive yet, but he is learning.
    5. We are able to solve simple problems on our own.
  • Grammar Focus: Can and cannot for present ability, could for past ability, and be able to
  • Vocabulary Focus: ability, skill, learn, practice, improve
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